Radiohead’s manager Brian Message has started a venture called Polyphonic that will provide an alternate music publishing model to labels (courtesy NY Times) – His venture, called Polyphonic, which was announced this month, will look to invest a few hundred thousand dollars in new and rising artists who are not signed to record deals and then [...]
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Update: Someone named Tony Wright (from RescueTime) has been kind enough to let me know that the change is working out well, and that RescueTime is a customer-centric company and not a me-centric company (i feel so special ). He also suggested that I re-read the blog post. Aah – the joy of having a year’s [...]
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September 1st update - GUD Magazine has a Kindle 2 contest – re-tweet this message on twitter and include the tag #gudmagazine. Kindle contests and giveaways always seem to come in bunches. Here are your end of July free kindle contests – SheKnows are having a ‘Win a Kindle’ contest to promote Jessica Bendinger’s new book, The Seven Rays. Ends August [...]
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The San Diego ComicCon and its 120,000 attendees got me thinking about all the niches that are getting excited about the Kindle. One way to meet the needs of these different niches is by allowing a feature we’ll call ‘Kindle Modes’. Just as the Kindle browser has basic and advanced modes, the Kindle itself could have modes. A critical distinction [...]
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In the last few days we’ve seen two developments that threaten the Kindle and greatly increase the importance of Kindle 3 – Plastic Logic’s metamorphosis from the business/vaporware eReader to a ‘B&N ebooks and AT&T network fuelled’ comprehensive eReader. Apple’s 10″ iTouch moving from early 2010 to October, being on Verizon (a better network than AT&T) and looming [...]
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