In a post this week on the ongoing problems of subscription music services, Anthony Volodkin aptly summarizes the perilous landscape of the space from a user’s perspective:
So [instead] they end up in a minefield, whenever they try one of these services out. This minefield experience is present in every single music subscription service to date and comes from the simple impossibility of licensing all available recorded music. We all know why that’s so difficult, but this issue continuously eats away at the real, mainstream viability of these services regardless. Your users don’t care that it’s hard to license music.
Published on December 8, 2009 6:01 pm.
Filed under: Notes on Things Seen, People and Brands Tags: abundance, aggregate, brands, experience, music subscription service
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The well designed map displays unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy, or a composite “stress index”, by county.
(via AP Economic Stress Map (Aug 09 data) – Chart Porn)
Published on October 9, 2009 8:04 pm.
Filed under: Ephemera, Links Tags: aggregate, map, stressors
A handful of related thoughts, leading to a larger one:
Last week, my new favorite television show, Hung, ended its initial season run on HBO. On a lark, I posted to Facebook and Twitter for recommendations for a new series into which to sink my teeth. 24 hours and a few hundred suggestions later, a handful [...]
Published on September 20, 2009 1:39 pm.
Filed under: People and Information, Things I Have Written Tags: aggregate, case studies, crowdsourcing, directv, new york times, suggestion
Xiaochang Li over at The C3 posts today on something that I had been anticipating but had let slip from my mind – the latest release of the open-source Miro video player.
The genius of Miro 2.0, as the post points out, is the ability to aggregate within the player library video content in a range [...]
Published on February 12, 2009 1:36 pm.
Filed under: Ephemera, Links Tags: aggregate, C3, free, miro video player, Service, video sources, video standard