August 2011
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AT&T: You want answers?
TechCrunch: We think we’re entitled to them.
AT&T: You want answers?!
TechCrunch: We want Google Voice on our iPhones.
AT&T: You can’t handle the iPhone with Google Voice!
AT&T: Son, we operate on network that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by carriers with restrictions. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Verizon Wireless? We have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Google Voice and you curse AT&T. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what we know: That pulling Google Voice, while tragic, probably saved the network. And our existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves the network.
AT&T: You don’t want the Google Voice on your iPhone. Because deep down, in places you don’t talk about at TechCrunch50, you want us protecting the network. You need us protecting that network. We use words like rate limiting, application approval and restrictions…we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.
AT&T: We have neither the time nor the inclination to explain ourselves to a blog who writes and profits under the blanket of the very network that we provide, then questions the manner in which we provide it. We’d prefer you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, we suggest you pick up a router and build your own network. Either way, We don’t give a damn what you think you’re entitled to.
TechCrunch: Did you order Google Voice taken down?
AT&T: We did the job you sent us to do.
TechCrunch: Did you order Google Voice taken down?
AT&T: You’re goddamn right we did.
July 2011
2 posts
Short logic: Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal →
shortlogic:
Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they’re currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they’ll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account.
At the moment, it’s costing them $1.43 to…
“Color has become a warning sign for investors, entrepreneurs and analysts who...”
– Bubble valuations leads to headless gambling on vapid companies, NYT reports the Color.com story. (via shortlogic)
October 2010
1 post
March 2010
4 posts
“The truth is that most everyone has plenty of ideas that could work out to be...”
– David Heinemeier Hansson, There’s No Room for The Idea Guy (via davidkaneda)
“True insight and lasting inspiration are born from creative collisions, from...”
– f5fest.com (via inkaudio)
Typosquatting Costs Google Advertisers $497M/Yr →
Google Benefits from User Mistakes The scheme is a simple one for the perpetrators, according to “Measuring the Perpetrators and Funders of Typosquatting.” Owners of such typosquatting sites place ads on them in the hopes that people who accidentally navigate there will click on them. Moore and Edelman, who has done several in-depth and critical studies of Google’s policies, estimate that Google...
February 2010
4 posts
2 tags
Monitoring your online reputation
These online services allow you to monitor your brand reputation and your personal reputation
http://www.trackur.com
http://knowem.com
http://www.radian6.com/cms/home
http://socialmention.com
http://alp-uckan.net/free/monitorthis
http://spy.appspot.com
When marketing music think about what matters.
inkaudio:
Ads don’t matter.
Twitter doesn’t matter.
Myspace and Facebook doesn’t matter.
Youtube matters a little.
Radio both offline and online matters.
Your own website matters.
But what matters the most is the music you make.
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Some thoughts on marketing.
In this Internet age, people often make the mistake of thinking that marketing is primarily about advertising. Although advertising is a subset of marketing, there is more to marketing than advertising alone. Marketing is comprehensive; it involves practically all aspects of a business. From development to sales, marketing plays a vital role in keeping a business profitable and the customers...
January 2010
1 post
1 tag
Are you listening to the complaints ?
Here are some sites that allow users to voice their complaints:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/
http://www.consumeraffairs.com
September 2009
5 posts
“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing...”
– Caterina, on working hard
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Music piracy costs money; does fighting it cost... →
The major music labels say that they stand to lose £200 million this year in the UK alone thanks to Internet file-sharing. But one of the country’s biggest ISPs is now slinging around some huge numbers of its own, saying it will actually cost ISPs £365 million a year to adopt “three strikes” rules meant to stem piracy.
By Nate Anderson
Buying ads is not a song writers marketing... →
If only one percent of the people reading this magazine buy my CD that’ll be 10,000 copies! And that’s only one percent!
The problems is:
He forgot there was a number lower than one percent.
Illegal Downloaders Also Buy And Stream Music -... →
WatchCost of advertising during a prime time TV Show like Grey’s Anatomy CPM is $25
Cost of having an ad on the same show online $40 or more.