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"When you get to 80 and beyond it doesn't matter much. He's out there waiting for us and you just got to wait your turn." - I can totally see myself doing this if I am lucky to live to 80 y.o. Posted via email from Greg's posterous |
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is the #1 messaging service in Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Israel and
other small countries..." that would be populations of 142 million in Russia, 46 million in Ukraine, 82 million in Germany, 7 million in Israel. But of course, if you compare that to 1.2 billion in India or 1.3 billion in China, you should also put US's 300 million down on the "small countries" list.How "american" of you, Kara Swisher :) Posted via email from Greg's posterous |
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I can't believe she agreed to play a dark parody of her own movie career. I wonder what she thought of Dogville. Does she get a mazahistic pleasure from watching it? Posted via email from Greg's posterous |
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Bentley Zagato for over a million bucks at Bentley of SF. Craaaaazy... Posted via email from Greg's posterous |
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I think the key in @gigaom's article about MySpace #Music is that consumers will pay only for superior listening experience, and MySpace is probably further from that than anyone else. Maybe I am picky, but so are other consumers when they have to pay, MySpace user experience sucks so much that I would need some anesthetics for aesthetics before I can pay for it. And I am among (what is probably the minority of) internet consumers who actually pays for music: I have last.fm subscription, and I buy a lot of music online from legitimate distributors such as Beatport, Juno, DTD, Amazon MP3, iTunes and directly from non-major labels. As other DJs who have dignity to pay for the music that they play, I don't agree that music has to be free. A lot of resources goes into producing music, even when it is produced by one person, recording equipment costs tens and hundreds of thousands, and musicians' time should be pad for not only when they are on stage. Yes,
advertisement supported model seems to be failing to pay steaming costs - tough luck, MySpace and Imeem. Why is everyone so focused on ad supported and "freemium"? I am very happy to pay for my TiVo and Netflix subscriptions and to buy movies and TV series on Amazon Unbox. Why can't the same work for music? I would use a service like LaLa if 3G or 4G worked everywhere I go - no question. I would even rent music instead of buying it, if I can pay 10% of the price of an album for having time-limited access to it. I think that when at some point we are connected 99% of the time we will choose having our music library accessible via a streaming service over having it all on an iPod or a hard drive. Two main obstacles to this model at this point are: poor availability of wireless broadband and stubbornness of major labels. This is their game to lose, anyway. Posted via email from Greg's posterous
Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 12:35 am
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Google recently sent out $100 adsense coupons to advertisers. Sound cool? Not so much. Actually, if you want to make your adsense budgets more efficient, you should tear up the coupon. What happens when every participant in an auction gets extra $100? Price goes up and no one gets an advantage. I wonder if Google should get a class action for artificially inflating adsense prices... Posted via email from Greg's posterous
Nov. 13th, 2009 @ 11:38 pm
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It is when you wake up and your lips are cracked, and when you touch anything around you it feels as if you are a Tesla Coil. And then you turn on a humidifier and it stays at 30% for the whole day, because 30% is the lowest that the humidity sensor recognizes. Which makes sense: the humidifier was made for human habitat, not for lizards. Posted via email from Greg's posterous
Oct. 30th, 2009 @ 05:43 pm
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via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bburtin
http://bburtin.livejournal.com/16688.html
Oct. 29th, 2009 @ 04:42 pm
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In the Gates complex at Carnegie Mellon :) Zimbra frvr :)
Sep. 23rd, 2009 @ 02:14 pm
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Images of remote worlds from Hubble:
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/2009/09/hubble-telescopes-latest-image.html
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