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Koss today has introduced new wifi headphones. The announcement is just 5 hours old but looks pretty interesting. In addition to plugging (sorry) into a Koss streaming service users can attach an small adapter to any iOS device. Set your iPhone down and walk around listening to music wireless!
Kinda thinking this would be nice while mowing the lawn or even better…working out. Cannot tell you how many times my iPod headphones have been caught up on a treadmill arm. Arg! Time for my gym to install some wireless APs around their facilities.
I simply burst out laughing reading the Detroit News‘ article regarding Madonna’s sharply falling record sales. Her latest release MDNA debuted at #1 last week after selling 359,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan. Yet as the article indicated: Madonna set to make the wrong kind of chart history. Clearly author Adam Graham (@grahamorama) has no idea how torrents have simply crushed the music industry. If he does understand — it was not mentioned in his article.
Riddle me this: How does Nielsen, Billboard or any other entertainment resource accurately reflect the impact of torrents on sales? Ah….they can’t. The fact that Nielsen/Billboard still lists “traditional chart history” tells me another analog business is choking to death on the globalized internet.
I have come to accept that illegal downloads are no different than drugs, ebooks, guns or music. All are in heavy demand. The only difference: ebooks and music use the internet. Supply and demand. Nothing more.
Its been a long standing issue for me to see mainstream media really show how inept they are when it relates to the globalization of the internet. So what exactly did Adam Graham miss?
If you really want to understand the way the world works…
If there is a way to get there — I would make the trip in a ping.
If you listen to all those social media wanna-bees who jumped on the Google+ bandwagon as the latest and greatest social media tool. Seems as soon as they received their beta invite the avalanche began.
Proving that ‘tigers eat their young’ those same pundits are already calling Google+….the next GoogleWave.
Wave? Oh, how quickly did you forget about Google’s last B-L-U-N-D-E-R in social media? Feels like yesterday Google was so slowly handing out Wave invites that it actually killed user adoption by the time they got around to “launching” the product.
Wave was so over-hyped by those same pundits who were also on twitter begging for a Wave invite. I recall them wishing they could be part of the Wave hype….until the exact moment they logged into Wave they found out how complex the UI was presented. Boy did Google deserve one hard shot right to the groin for that social train wreck.
So those who consider themselves social media leaders (or innovators) are actually voicing their displeasure with Google+ after its been public for just 30 days? Oh the irony. I cannot help but relish that quote from earlier this year that puts all those social media so called leaders or innovators into context:
“99.5 Percent Of Social Media Experts Are Clowns”
-Gary Vayerchuk interview