I was just watching Seth Godin’s presentation at Google: "All Marketers are Liars" He was saying that Napster could have been successful if it launched in a nursing home.  Because it was so good, everybody would tell everybody else about it. That’s how great the original Napster was.  Seth said it only had to reach […]

This story started burning up the Internet yesterday.  And has now even made it to hitsdailydouble.com.  At first I laughed it off, but thinking about it last night, I wondered, how would the launch of U2’s album have played out differently if the band had aligned with Apple? Letterman doesn’t reach 5 million people a […]

If Phish is giving away a free download of last night’s Hampton Coliseum show is the reign of the late twentieth century major label paradigm finally over? That’s how it worked.  The record company signed you, ripped you off and set you free to make some cash on the road, if the company had built […]

I was going to write about Saul Hansell’s article in the "New York Times" about the sale of "iPhone: The Missing Manual" at the App Store.  Mr. Hansell focused on the fact that people paid for it, but more interesting to me was that not only was this the number one computer book this year, […]