June 2009
5 posts
The Book Business vs. The Record Business
I came across a Big Money article entitled The Kindle Revolution that described the book business. The parallels with the record business were immediately obvious:
The book business is a distribution business, pure and simple. It’s about getting the words and ideas of a writer into the hands of a reader. In the old days, publishers had to get the books piled in the bookstore so readers...
iTunes DJ...
…is awesome.
We’ve been looking for a group playlist creator for a long time in the office — at some point we even kicked around building one ourselves. Using iTunes DJ we can each add songs to a playlist, vote up songs that other people add, and generally democratize our listening experience.
It’s not without shortcomings though — as far as I know you can only vote...
WatchIt’s been a long time since we’ve updated The Next Big Sound blog, but it’s not without good reason. A lot has happened in the past few months and we’re excited to share what we’ve been up to and where we’re headed.
Techstars and moving to Boulder, CO In early April we found out that we were accepted into Techstars. More about Techstars:
TechStars is a...