An interesting, post-weekend read on the future of music, courtesy of CNET and The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. In the end, they say, online music is just going to be too convenient, too cheap and too compelling to be ignored by the majors, and to be worthwhile for the pirates. The article reckons that the glory … Read more
Email is the bane of our lives. It arrives even when we’re not there, and is usually full of junk (I’m not talking about stuff from the boss, but only because he’s reading this.) Now, it seems, we can’t actually detach ourselves from it. According to a British Computer Society (BCS) survey, there has been … Read more
This blog is fast becoming toolbar central. Here’s another one (a toolbar, by the way, is an extra layer of buttons that appears at the top of your program — in most cases Internet Explorer. Microsoft make it really easy for third party manufacturers to develop them as marketing tools, or often products in their … Read more
For those of you following the discussion about the privacy implications of ToolButton, a browser toolbar that helps store news and other features, here’s a reply from ToolButton’s Deb Alloway about the matter. First off, my original email to her: As I’ve said in the blog, I like ToolButton and hope that privacy of … Read more
Full text of email interview with Mark Goodstein of X1 (see my column in WSJE and FEER this week) — Who are you aiming at with this product? Not to be too simplistic, we’re aiming at two groups: consumers and professionals, specifically those who have a lot of email and files and … Read more