“While social commerce is a fairly new concept in online shopping, it is quickly gaining momentum, as more online vendors realize that there are few more powerful sales forces than a personal recommendation, picking up where comparison shopping engines leave off…Wists.com and Kaboodle.com are two of the early social commerce programs. ”
Sony’s latest cockup with DRM in CD’s shows that they haven’t a clue - or rather that the media bods in Sony don’t have a clue.
More than ever, Sony needs to split its hardware and media divisions before one drags the other down.
Such a spectacular failure in DRM attached to physical media sets a huge precedent - Sony will have to change tactic. Their real fight now is with Apple since Apple’s DRM is flowing onto iPods without people really noticing while their own attempt got caught by being stupidly aggressive.
Anyone who has visited a used CD store recently and looked at the prices, can see that the very CDs that the music industry fought so hard to push, with inferior artwork to vinyl, are its worst enemy - they have created the sneakernet Napster. The price of used CD’s is dropping as they change from a product of desire (the inferior artwork is not enough to collect) to one of convenience - serial numberless disk storage media.
One of the things that may happen is that Sony pretend to repent and donate money into the cash strapped EFF to force Apple to open up their own DRM or place warning notices on iTunes downloads that the songs will only ever play on Apple products.
This would be Sony’s true Trojan horse as their ultimate interests would be orthogonal to consumers.
What is happening to all media is that the distribution has changed and that we don’t need the distribution companies. From MySpace to my iPod there is no role for them, just like there is no real role for Blacksmiths when people have cars.
Not needing an umbrella, due to the clement weather, she furled the small, weildy flag with both hands, full of ruth at one so vincible, pervious to her own pain. Although he had been maculate, with peccable taste, he was gainly and couth and his love for her was truly requited…
Dorothy: “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
The Kansas state motto is ‘ad astra per aspera’ - to the stars through adversity.
Sometime Kansan, Charles Lindbergh, was the first person to fly Accross the Atlantic. A Kansan, Steve Hawley, was on board the first flight of the space shuttle, Discovery, and that same Kansan was in charge of deploying the Hubble Telescope.
Somewhere in a Kansas school is a litlle girl or boy who could have taken us further towards the stars if it hadn’t just been made deliberately more difficult.
And all because a few arrogant grown ups banged their heads and are off to see the Wizard.
I’d love to write a satire of the Kansas School Board based on the Wizard of Oz.
Ad Astra Per Veritas.
According to the principal of unintelligent design, the Kansas school board has technically opened the door to schools teaching satanism on a par with science.
CNN.com - Kansas school board redefines science - Nov 8, 2005
Michael Parekh explains wists much better than I ever could in his post: microchunking commerce the web 2.0 way.
Speaking of which, having eaten my own dogfood by doing cribcandy I now know what I need to fix on wists to make it a lot better.
I’m working hard to try and get a decent wists release out and some more cribcandy like sites are in the pipeline.
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