On Digital Media, Episode #50: Bi-Coastal
In this episode John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons, Steve Hatch and Ken Gellman chat about:
- John (and maybe Ken) will be at Podcamp Boston. John plans to geek out about podcast measurement. Come hang with us…
- Chia-Lin will be moderating a panel at Digital Hollywood in L.A.
- John will be at the Forrester Consumer Forum, October 11-12. The event is entitled, “Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies.”
- Steve transforms his Cingular 8125 into an iPhone. Sort of. Check out iTunes Agent. You might find something about it on Steve’s blog, but I doubt it. :p
- eBay is going to take GINORMOUS one-time “asset impairment charge” of $1.43B on the purchase of its Skype subsidiary. Which begs the question, “Why did they do this deal in the first place?” The problem wasn’t VOIP or even Skype - it was eBay’s inability to integrate it into the eBay experience.
- If FaceBook were acquired by a much larger public company, would the same type of integration issues plague it?
- Chia-Lin is using AIM Wimzi on her blog.
- In few years, Microsoft intends for 25% of its business to be advertising based. Even more interesting, Steve Ballmer things that there could be a place in its business for ad-supported software.
- New Zunes! And they’re not Brown! There will be 4 and 8 GB flash versions along with a hard drive-based version. The new Zunes will allow you to sync your device to your music library over wifi and will embrace podcasting. Chia-Lin is upset about the DRM that is added to music when you ’squirt’ a song to a friend, even if the song (or podcast) didn’t have DRM to begin with.
- Amazon has launched a beta version of its mp3 music store: 2 million songs from 180,000 artists.
- Steve has been wrestling with the really big question: “How much should he pay for the new Radiohead album?” John notes that Magnatune has been operating this way for years. Steve equates Grateful Dead bootlegs as the Grand Daddy of DRM free music.
- The Charlatans UK are also doing something with creative pricing and promotion.
- John shares his experiences with Magatune. (They rock, BTW.) Steve recommends that digital music lovers also check out Aimee Street and Grooveshark.
- Steve ponders the question, “Who is going to be second in the market to iTunes?”
- Nokia announced their intent to buy NavTech for $8.1B, further committing to location based services. TomTom bought TeleAtlas, another provider of mapping services.
- Garmin and TomTom announced their intent to put mobile TV services on their navigation devices.
Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu.
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