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A Message to the Recording Industry: Physical vs StreamSeptember 30

Stuck in traffic this morning, listening to Pandora on my iPhone, I reflected on my reaching out to Justin @Muxtape with his recent online message regarding the service shutdown by the RIAA. Ive always been a forward thinker, so logically I went straight to the potential key in this well debated and controversial issue on copyrighted infringement: Physical vs Stream.

Think about it, What drives music piracy and terrifies the mighty Titans of Hollywood’s entertainment industry?

Did you answer physical files or products? No, Why not?….

Widespread copyright infringement, or piracy, is about the ease of creating and sharing mp3’s. Consumer’s need mp3’s to enjoy his/her digital device (ie iPhone/iPod/Zune/ect). Online music retailers fuel the need as both businesses and Major record companies alike try to control the use of files. This includes authorized services such as eMusic, Rhapsody, Amazon.com, and Napster.

If the Recording Industry wants to regain its footing then, in my opinion, it needs to start thinking ahead

Hello My Name is (E)XPLOITSeptember 25

Today a new service hit the twitter radar as users began sending tweets stating: “I’m now using E to add friends to my Twitter account. More info on http://hellomynameise.com” - myself included! I promptly sent them an @reply on twitter & also in hope that my Tweeple would catch wind of this:

The sites goal is to “integrate your social services and make sure you can share your online identities in real life.” So far, the site/service has managed to receive a prompt back lash due to their immediately trust abuse! Newly obtained members began sending the above twitter status update upon adding their twitter profile as a ’service’ or ‘identity’ to the site.

Performing another quick Summize search turns up some angry Tweeple, and rightfully so:

Social Media Reach and The Sphere of InfluenceSeptember 24

First, that’s a great book title don’t you think!?: Social Media Reach and The Sphere of Influence

Recently I have been fascinated with Heavy Influencer activity in their Sphere of Influence and the ways which they’re leveraging social media reach for products and services. The reach is often times quite stunning, beyond just those using social media, engaging their audiences to build even stronger relationships. It all starts with just one Influencer and grows the region of reach around the Influencer by adding one additional reach node at a time.

To better illustrate this Social Media Reach lets take a look at recent examples of Reach With Intention efforts by two of my personal Twitter friends: Robert Scoble (@scobleizer) and Gary Vaynerchuk (@GaryVee).

A few weeks ago Robert Scoble ran a promotion of sorts in which he gave away Seagate Hard drives (See: ‘Use Twitter or FriendFeed and win a new Seagate Drive‘). He announced this via Twitter and Friendfeed, and also posted the +140char details on his blog. The contest was pretty simple i

Nullriver drops Pandora Killer for a smooth $5.99 in the app storeAugust 24

Pandora Killer? Thats right! Tuner Internet Radio by Nullriver is the first app for the iPhone that actually allows you to connect directly to your favorite streams that we’ve all grown to know and love!

Some of you may already know Nullriver’s legacy in digital music, stemming from the debut of Winamp way back in 1997. As online streaming music became more popular they also launched SHOUTcast as a server to support creating or listening to Internet audio streams, and more!

The new app by Nullriver unleashes support for AAC, MP3, PLS, M3U on both the iPhone and iPod Touch, your music reach is now truly unlimited! Well, thats is as long as you’ve got a speedy connection! Tuner works on WiFi, 3G & EDGE. Just like I’m sure you’ve experienced with

AT&T Sends out Text message about iPhone 2.0.2 UpdateAugust 23

This morning AT&T sent out a text message alerting iPhone 3G customers to upgrade their phones to software version 2.0.2

A free message from Apple and AT&T: An important software update for iPhone 3G has been available on iTunes since this past Monday. To get it, simply synch your iPhone 3G with iTunes and click the “Check For Update” button.

I found this kind of odd since I had already upgraded my iPhone on Tuesday, the day after the new version was released. My phone is currently running version 2.0.2 (5C1).

After receiving the text I ran a few google searches to see what the importance of this updates contents were, here is what I came up with:

• Bug fixes
• Improved communication with 3G networks
• Transition from music list to Coverflow has changed
• Tilt to left from landscape no longer switch to portrait when watching video, fixes 2.0 bug.

If anyone has anything more definitive on this, please post!

UPDATE: 8/27/2008

While not related to this ’security text message’ issue,