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How You Listen and Learn About Music Makes Business Change

Posted on August 8, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 3 Comments

IConcertCal, Like Bandito, a Music Plug-in for iTunes

Take a look at this concert calendar. It’s personalized for me, pops up in iTunes, and makes it really easy for me to keep up with both concerts by artists in my iTunes library and new music released by those artists.

I’ve had the iConcertCal plug-in running inside iTunes for a couple of years now, and while finding the calendar isn’t easy enough (see the menus? “View/Visualizer/iConcertCal?” REALLY?), the other thing that iConcertCal does is when I play music in iTunes by an artists with some piece of upcoming information, it pops up a reminder. It’s really pretty cool. ... READ MORE of How You Listen and Learn About Music Makes Business Change at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (508 words, 1 image, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Development

50 Gigabytes Later, The Music Wars Begin (iTunes Must Die)

Posted on June 6, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 25 Comments

iTunes has a problem.

Amazon and Google, probably the only two companies with enough business savvy and money to challenge Apple’s music-selling monstrosity, are in. For real. And while (in spite of cute tricks like their Lady Gaga 99 cent album debacle) it’s not clear whether Amazon will get their act together, Google Music is going to be huge.

Huge, by the way, might be the operative word. Verizon may not like me this month, as I uploaded my entire 7,000 song music collection to Google Music over the weekend—50 Gigabtyes of data sent, and 50 Gigabytes of data received over 26 hours of music upload at high speed. Yowza. ... READ MORE of 50 Gigabytes Later, The Music Wars Begin (iTunes Must Die) at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (1103 words, 2 images, estimated 4:25 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content

Porn, Censorship, Apple, Google, & Business Change (Whew!)

Posted on June 16, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 4 Comments

On the Internet, where pornography is the single largest business, questions like “what is porn?” take on a whole new meaning. Forget what we’ve learned watching the US Supreme Court try to answer the question, or from that famous lawsuit in Cincinnati against Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt. Porn is what you think it is, and community gatekeepers have de facto powers of censorship because they grant it to themselves.

Apple has famously thrown many apps out of the iTunes Apps Store, because they were “too racy”. Steve Jobs makes no apologies for this, even having gone so far as as to state that he believes “his users want to be protected”. ... READ MORE of Porn, Censorship, Apple, Google, & Business Change (Whew!) at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (446 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Media

CDs About To Become Cheaper Than Digital Downloads

Posted on April 1, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

Last month, the Universal Music Group decided to cut the price of albums. Again.

One of the “big four” music labels, Universal is doing anything they can to bring us back into the fold and away from those gosh-darned Apple people and their newfangled iTunes store.

By the way: I used the word album, and actually albums aren’t dropping in price; if you want vinyl you’re still going to pay a premium for the privilege. ... READ MORE of CDs About To Become Cheaper Than Digital Downloads at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (379 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Media

Bing, Android, iTunes, and the Coopetition of Business Change

Posted on December 16, 2009 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

Using an iPhone, but prefer the Microsoft Bing search engine? There’s an app for that.

In the latest proof that Business Change is about coopetition, Apple has allowed Microsoft to put a search application in the iTunes store. What’s next, a Bing application for Google Android?

Since unlike Apple, Google and Microsoft both have search engines they want you to use, that seems unlikely. On the other hand, Google doesn’t have the kind of rules for their app repository that Apple does, so if Microsoft wants in they can get there. ... READ MORE of Bing, Android, iTunes, and the Coopetition of Business Change at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (261 words, estimated 1:03 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

Video Business Change: Paying for TV and Movies on the Internet

Posted on December 1, 2009 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 3 Comments

The world loves video. Nothing gets more traffic. Whether you’re into TV sitcoms, action movies, or pornography, the Internet has something you could be watching for free, right now, instead of doing your job.

How much longer will it all remain free?

iTunes, the only place where paid video content has reached critical mass, may actually be standing in the way of content providers getting paid. Having created a model where people who are willing to use their bloated software to see videos on tiny screens, Apple‘s “buy, don’t rent” policies are now becoming a problem. ... READ MORE of Video Business Change: Paying for TV and Movies on the Internet at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (217 words, estimated 52 secs reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Media




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