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Music discovery is a revenue driver for content owners before it is a convenience to consumers. So why are music discovery services more like destinations than features? Look at Last.fm, Pandora, Imeem, TheSixtyOne — they all require users to break out of the normal habit of listening on iTunes/WMP and proactively visit a separate site.
Facebook chat is sexy and well implemented—we didn’t expect any less from them. Adding more communication features is a great way to increase the “stickiness” of the Facebook experience and drive up engagement (and therefor page views). But being a late entrant into IM with an ulterior motive makes f-Chat a tough sell [...]
This article on GigaOM got me thinking about how little we hear about software piracy these days. SaaS essentially expires all issues of piracy: vendors are no longer selling pieces of IP on a shiny disc, but sell the proper execution of their software. On top of that, users don’t even have physical [...]
M&A seems to be the only way out for startups these days. Most would point to a stale stock market and Sarbanes-Oxley as the reason for the rise in M&A exits vs. IPOs. Yet, I get the sense that it’s because many web startups simply have little hope of ever generating sustainable cash [...]
Every page has a <html> <head> and <body>. We all expect <H#> to indicate headings, that <b> or <strong> means bold but no one should be using <bold>, that Javascript should live inside a <script>. This is what standardized HTML is all about and allows every computer on every OS, every browser to [...]
