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$3 iPhone app from the Presidents of the United States of America

“This company has deep mobile software expertise, with two of the founders of this company being from Tegic, who created the T9 texting software,” added Dederer. “Here’s a cocktail party factoid: it’s the most widely-distributed software of any kind on earth. It’s on three billion-plus handsets. So we know how to make things for phones, [...]
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Topspin & Day 1 of changing the music industry

Pretty exciting! Topspin goes live: Topspin is founded on the principle that while costs of production and distribution in the music industry are dropping, unlimited choice for consumers only increases the importance of efficient marketing. Marketing means both connecting and cultivating relationships with your existing fans (much of what Seth Godin describes as “Permission Marketing” applies) [...]
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Iron Man

So just for a moment, imagine if the Cardigan’s Iron Man cover was the one they went with for the movie. (Sorry, another thinly veiled post to demonstrate a new feature, S3 integration.)
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1000TrueFansRSolidGold

From Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 True Fans posted on March 4, 2008: A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author – in other words, anyone producing works of art – needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living. And published a day later, on March 05, 2008, Reznor [...]
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A long love affair

Way back in 2004 I said athe only thing I’ve had playing for the last few weeksa about Doug Hilsinger & Caroleen Beatty’s Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). I still mean it. Long story short, did some much needed home server maintenance over the weekend and recovered a bunch of music, Taking Tiger Mountain being [...]
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Pandora

“Our musician analysts have been hard at work since January 2000, analyzing almost a century of recorded music, one song at a time; meticulously creating the most thorough musicological database of its kind: the Music Genome Project. This is a labor of love – 20 minutes per song spent capturing everything from melody, harmony and [...]
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