Interesting little article on how musicians are increasingly bypassing big labels by utilizing platforms like MySpace.com, noting also the high up-front costs of going with a major label,
By making their recordings available for free and allowing people to share them with each other, bands are able to get themselves heard without having to spend huge pots of cash in advertising [...] they needn’t worry about accruing the considerable debt inherent to normal record company practices, where bands are liable for recording and promotional costs against royalties.
the ease of making and distributing music and the new ways to attract a loyal following:
As a musician, it is already possible to write, record, and distribute music without signing a record deal at all. Now bands can connect with their potential fans, too. The proliferation of widely available high-speed internet access coupled with the current crop of creative young people in British music has heralded a new era of low-cost, mass-market, musical fandom.
I had to think of this smart little quote of C.K.Prahalad when reading this article on the emerging business of WiMax connectivity:
Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.
(Spectrum) resources are always limited for upstarts, partly due to incumbents hoarding them (and because of government reserved space like in this case spectrum as well) … while ambitions and potential are huge, so strategic innovation and will determine about success.
Alas, not only competitive strategy reasoning is needed, but also a deep understanding of the complexities of the marketplace and upcoming players, newcomers that:
enter the communications market, creating a challenge to existing service providers and equipment makers alike
This will also open up a new playing field for business model innovations, as deadlocked business models and slow-moving incumbents will be bypassed.
WiMax platform’s ability to deliver lots of capacity at lower prices could be very disruptive to existing broadband business models. When you put voice over WiMax, it could also disrupt the wireline and wireless voice businesses [...]
because
WiMax has the power to disrupt the telecom market by throwing control of the customer up for grabs. [...] WiMax eliminates the need for a fixed broadband connection in the home [...] to completely bypass the telecom companies. And as WiMax goes mobile, it will allow upstarts to bypass the wireless phone companies, too.
This looks like a great workshop at Case Western, organized amongst others by Richard Boland.
The conference seeks to facilitate dialogue among the disciplines involved in design and organizational action, including organization theory, information systems, management, strategy, accounting, education, architecture, industrial design, and others.
Some resources are noted, look out for additional proceedings.
Neckermann.de soll zur offenen Vertriebsplattform für externe Partner ausgebaut werden…
Künftig bietet neckermann.de externen Partnern auf Provisionsbasis den Zugang zu einer Vielzahl von Nutzern. neckermann.de wickelt dabei den Bestellprozess ab und leitet den Auftrag an den Partner weiter. Vergleichbare Dienste bietet Amazon bereits seit längerem Anbietern an, die auf der Plattform der US-Firma bereits gelistete Artikel parallel auf eigene Rechnung verkaufen wollen.
… und macht auch sonst interessante Dinge …
Sobald der iPod-Video erscheint, könnte diese TV Show ein wunderbarer Videopodcast sein. Aber so ist sie nur eine nette, aber schlecht gemachte Web-TV-Show.
A survey in Strategy + Business magazine (a publication of consultancy BoozAllenHamilton) detects the sources of organizational dysfunction and finds that two thirds of all businesses are ‘unhealthy’, or as I would say they exhibit pathologies (and neuroses) and that these make them basically incapable of responding effectively and flexibly to economic events and changing customers needs and wants.
Most organizations are inherently unhealthy. That hypothesis is inspired by experience, informed by economic theory, and now supported by hard data.
There are some regional distinctions in Organizational Health, where Germany rates fairly OK, like the rest of Europe, in stark contrast to Japan or the US.
One thing that struck me is that in unhealthy organizations there is a lack of clear decision rights, besides the other syndromes like passive-aggressive behaviour (well, yes, neuroses galore) and over-(micro-)management.
I have been updating and tweaking my sites off lately, now I’m closing in, one last thing:
I am switching this blogs address, no BIG changes for the folks that are subscribed via Feedburner (i.e. http://feeds.feedburner.com/BMID), everything remains the same on the syndication front.
Only people who are subscribed via the WordPress-Feed (i.e. http://www.martin-koser.de/wp_1/wp-rss2.php) need to switch. Still, I am strongly recommending those to switch to my Feedburner Version anyway, one reason being that only on the Feedburner Feed my furled links are included …
So, yes, new address is: http://www.martin-koser.de/BMID/,
instead of that awkward wp_1 … R.I.P.
AOL und TimeWarner planen mit In2TV ein webbasiertes Fernsehangebot. Nachdem Nutzer bestimmen wann Sendungen starten, oder sich sogar mit TiVo über Werbepausen hinwegzappen ist das ein logischer Schritt, zumal breitbandiges Internet (und mobile Player wie der iPod video) den Trand verstärken.
“Der On-Demand-Markt ist für alle Medienkonzerne ein Muss, und was Time Warner macht, ist nur eine von vielen Möglichkeiten, das Potential vorhandener Rechtekataloge auszunutzen. Es ist mit einer ganzen Lawine ähnlicher Angebote zu rechnen, denn die TV- und Filmindustrie will nicht die Fehler begehen, die von der Musikindustrie gemacht wurden” [...]
Interessant zudem dass eine Facette der Attraktivität mass-personalisierte Werbeformate sind …
Technisch ist es inzwischen möglich, jedem einzelnen Web-TV-Zuschauer nach Interessen, Wohnsitz oder anderen Kriterien maßgeschneiderte Werbeclips zu zeigen. AOL hatte im Sommer vergangenen Jahres das Unternehmen Advertising.com übernommen, das auf derartige Angebote spezialisiert ist.
mehr bei der FTD
