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In Rainbows: One Year Later

Oct 16, 2008 by Charlie

One year ago, I wrote a blog post about Radiohead's album In Rainbows, which was released over the internet on Radiohead's web site prior to a physical record release. The noteworthy thing about that release was that the user determined the price they were willing to pay for the download, even for free. In my post, I championed this move as a progressive, consumer-frie...

Tagged: radiohead, in rainbows, music, music industry, recording, internet, distribution

The Internet Arms Race

Oct 19, 2006 by Travis

Google recently bought the video site YouTube.com for a whopping $1.65 billion. So, what does this mean for rival companies like Yahoo!, MSN, and News Corp(Rupert Murdoch). They need to keep up, right? How will they answer Google's surely inevitable rule of the world? Are they going to start acquiring thier own start-ups like Facebook or Digg just to try and comba...

Tagged: google, internet