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The Apple Ipad Won't Change the World
Get a grip, folks. The product's release will be exciting, but the iPad—and other tablets like it—won't change your lives. The Apple iPad is a laptop without a keyboard. Got it? It's not some futuristic “god-like" device that will change our lives. I, like many others, believe that the time is ripe for the iPad and ...
How Did I Miss This Derek Sivers Created Site?
I guess MusicThoughts has been around for awhile. But somehow I missed it; and I'm a person that loves music and loves quotes. It took a tweet of a post on The Indie Connect Social Network to click through and discover it. “If you're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in ...
Report Shows Big Jump in Smartphone Web Usage
Mobile ad delivery platform AdMob has released a report that shows that smartphones accounted for 48% of its worldwide traffic. That's up from 35% in February '09 fueled by heavy app usage on iPhone and Android devices. Mobile internet devices experienced the strongest growth, increasing to account for 17% of traffic on AdMob's network. Although the ...
Spotify Targets 3rd Quarter for U.S. Launch
Online music service Spotify is targeting the 3rd quarter of 2010 for a U.S. launch. “We're buying server space in random parts of the states and there are licensing discussions too," Spotify Senior VP Paul Brown told Bloomberg. “But they are going fine because we're in a long-term partnership with the labels and publishers." The company ...
New iTunes Rules Complicate iPad Magazine Opportunities
Apple this week revised the terms of service for its iTunes software, adding a new feature to send apps as gifts. However, the new feature comes with restrictions that may limit the flexibility of magazine publishers to market their wares as they see fit. Apple prohibits the gifting of “in-app purchases, in-app subscriptions, [and] upgrades" which ...
13 Apps in 30 Days: An Update on Apps That Teach Japanese
I didn't expect to have an update on learning Japanese through iPhone apps in just a few days, but I've already had a few good and bad experiences with specific apps that I thought I should share. I'm also realizing that Japanese isn't exactly a walk in the park, and apparently the State Department agrees with ...
Create an iPhone App for $200 with Appmakr
Professional iPhone app developers can charge tens of thousands of dollars. If you have something pretty easy in mind and also have the design sense to make it yourself, AppMakr is a decent solution. Using the website, you can layout a custom app starting at $199, and it will spit out something can be posted or ...
Twitter May Be Prepping Auto-Translate Option
Twitter appears to be preparing to roll out a feature that would automatically translate posts into your preferred native language, according to a Twitter page I saw today. Last October, Twitter's Biz Stone authored a blog post that indicated that Twitter would soon be arriving languages beyond Twitter's native English and Japanese, including French, Italian, German, ...
Interview: Mike King of Berkleemusic and Online Music Marketing with Topspin (PT. 2)
Read Part One This is part two of my interview with Mike King.For those of you who may not be familiar, Mike (@atomzooey)is Associate Director of Marketing at Berkleemusic, Berklee College of Music's online school and author of Music Marketing: Press, Promotion, Distribution, and Retail, which you can get a free chapter of here. ...
Youtube Down, Wikipedia Hit Yesterday
(Update 2) Two sites that land at the top of almost every music searches have been hit hard within the last 24 hours. As of 8:26 AM EDT Thursday, YouTube.com returned the error message: Http/1.1 Service Unavailable. The problems had begun a couple of hours earlier, but YouTube videos embedded on other sites including Hypebot were ...
