Legal Music Online? What If I Can’t Find It?

Dear BPI,
I’ve not recieved one of your lovely letters, but I would like to hear an answer to a point I have regarding music online. What if I can’t find a music track or album online?
I’m sure you’re familiar with artists who don’t appear electroncially, such as The Beatles, or do not wish to appear […]

The 3G iPhone is not $199

Let’s get the maths straight here…
3G iphone, 8gb… $199
Plus…
Data plan: $30/month (up from $10 a month)
Voice plan: $39/month
…and that’s every month…
($30 + $39) x 24 = $1656
Total iPhone 3G price: $1855
More at Mobile Messaging 2.0…

What If Twitter Wants More Money?

It’s late, it’s Friday, so let’s participate in Web 2.0’s favourite parlour game - let’s think up a revenue stream for Twitter!
It surprises me that everyone says that Twitter doesn’t have one. Because it does - a little slice of the pie from every SMS sent and received in the US (and those sent in […]

Perhaps Nobody Voted for Michael Arrington in The Time 100 Poll

Something little cheeky for Friday afternoon methinks.
First of all, in all seriousness, congratulations to Michael Arrington for being in The Time 100 most Influential People list, admittedly as number 100 out of 100 (but do see here). Irrespective of your views of the TechCrunch empire, the fact that the web is seen as a […]

Is Muxtape a Sting Operation Against the RIAA?

‘When you play with fire, you’re gonna get burned.’ Two stories, partly connected were in my feed reader (Bloglines if you must know) and the connections have got me thinking.
The first was the rather inevitable legal move by the RIAA on Project Playlist. That site is where users can upload playlists of their songs to […]

Top Five Mobile Video Publishing Tools

I’ve posted a look at some of the sites that allow video to be posted from your mobile to the web over on All About Symbian. Here’s a quick taster of what I cover in the article. From the streaming side of things there is…
Qik (www.qik.com)
“Look for Qik to continue to iron out bugs and […]

Flickr Video - Mobile Upload Test

Been looking at a number of video services online for some articles in the last few days, and one of those has been the new video service that Flickr offers. I can see why the 90 second videos would be regarded as long pictures, and while I’m still a touch unsure on how much of […]

Are Spoiler Tags Needed for Twitter?

NB This post is spoiler free.
Inside twitter, we already have (@) for replies and (#) or topics, do we need ($) for TV spoilers?
I ask this question after a weekend where the second I breathed that I was watching either Doctor Who (in the UK, thus I can watch live) or Battlestar Galactica (at some […]

My Expectations Veer Into Obscurity

Today’s single bullet comes from the Urban Dictionary…
Mevio: The act of renaming a company / business thinking that the new name will make up for fact the business model was either flawed or poorly executed.
That Web 2.0 company just laid-off 25% of their staff and now they are going to Mevio their name in hopes […]

Where The Comments Are.. FriendFeed, Doctor Who and Routing Round Obstructions

I got a comment today on one of the more popular articles on this site, namely the “Tardis Crash” mash-up of the 1963, 2005 and 2007 Doctor Who theme tunes. Except it wasn’t on the site. It was on a link to a Twitter post that was over on FriendFeed.
There’s already been discussion (and […]

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