One by one they fall
And realise that fighting your customers is not good for business. Warner Brothers now joins EMI and a limited Universal in recognising that the goal of a company should be to make their product easy for customers to use, and…
A virtual smack in the head
GNC reader and blogger Karoli posted a comment to my PayPerPost article, and expanded on her blog, justifiably calling me to task on how I expressed myself in the article. I made repeated reference to PayPerPost in the article using a…
My view on PayPerPost
In GNC #316 Todd asks our opinions of Mark Hopkin’s post on Mashable that questions whether IZEA is evil or not ,and I wanted to share my opinion with you. PayPerPost is a shortcut that damages the future potential of…
Does DailyMe respect sourced content?
I have been experimenting with a new service called DailyMe. It is a web/email news service that operates very similar to a current newspaper. It has syndication arrangements with news sources that supply this type of news, like Associated Press…
Xbox360 needs better media support
I have been searching for a media extender box to stream some of my content on my PC to the TV in my lounge-room. This has been more difficult that I thought it would. This does not seem to be…
MLB proves that DRM sucks.
Major League Baseball has decided to change their DRM provider. This has been a big job for them, having to build a completely new system and transfer all their content across. There is also the problem that any company in…
MySpace plans small scale ads
MySpace has been planning to replicate Facebook’s ad strategy, allowing advertisers to specify some of the facets of their intended market. MySpace then uses the demographic, location and interests information it has on its users to target which users would…