musings
The Zune Tax
Om Malik has a nice writeup on the news that Microsoft is going to pay Universal Music $1 for each Zune that’s sold, and they’ve extended the offer to the other members of the ‘big music’ cartel. I’m torn between thinking that Microsoft simply caved-in to Universal’s threat to withhold it’s library from the [...]
Cambrian
Some interesting snippets from Ben Barren’s talk last night:
The initial outlay for setting up Gnoos was $50,000 and then jumped up to $200,000.
The site’s not being monitized at the moment because the income it would generate isn’t yet significant; this is pretty clearly tied to it’s traffic patterns (though I suspect that gnoos is designed [...]