We all remember seeing the "Sledgehammer" video for the very first time…how’d they do that! That was the essence of success in the MTV era, pushing technological limits to wow the passive end user, whether it be Michael Jackson morphing into a panther or Ric Ocasek battling an insect. But we’re no longer passive and […]

Huh? What’s that? And why is this important to me? I’ll speak English. webOS is Palm. Which failed in its last iteration as a handset manufacturer and ran HP’s tablet until today, when both were killed. The reason this is important is because in tech, we’ve only got one winner. Everybody gravitates to one platform […]

Information is Beautiful. But it’s not always right. The problem with the Internet is anybody can post information and if it’s outrageous enough it’ll be forwarded ad infinitum without fact-checking, without scrutiny, and a plethora of people will believe it. Used to be information was funneled through responsible media and after being scrubbed of falsehood […]

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines, the streaming era has begun. And it’s going to turn the music business upside down. So much of what now exists will evaporate. The game will be completely different. It will switch from one focused on sales to actual listening. Right now, Spotify is pioneering. It appears to be […]