Well it looks like hotmail finaly got around to increasing their storage capacity. I only noticed because my MSN messenger popup told me I had 100+ emails, which I knew was way more than my old 2MB capacity could handle.
Work has gotten really crazy, but I hope that in the next few weeks I can get back to posting on a more frequent basis.
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Thursday, November 04, 2004
The "Lock in realization"
Disclosure: I am a product manager for RealNetworks... but the below story simply represents facts.
A good friend of mine is working on Wall Street and he shot me an email yesterday with a question I have gotten from numerous people. Here was the question:
"What if I have 4GB worth of songs on a laptop and want to get them to a new laptop... how can I easily do that?"
Easy question to answer, but while answering the question I learned that the 4GB of songs were purchased from iTunes and that this person was scared to move them from PC to PC because he heard about the limitations put on the number of PCs a song can be on.
Now for the "lock in realization"... I told my friend not to worry much about the PC issue, but that songs purchased from iTunes can't be put on other MP3 players and his response was "I didn't realize that". Ok... here is someone who has made a $1,000 investment in music and now is locked-in to the iPod.
If he wants to play these songs on a different device he is screwed. He will have to go through the hassle of burning hundreds of CDs and then ripping them. I of course went on to tell him that songs purchased from Real are portable to the most number of devices, including the iPod....
The reason I am raising this issue is that this is something thousands of consumers across the country are dealing with, and they won't be happy to learn they bought songs that lock them in to a platform.
A good friend of mine is working on Wall Street and he shot me an email yesterday with a question I have gotten from numerous people. Here was the question:
"What if I have 4GB worth of songs on a laptop and want to get them to a new laptop... how can I easily do that?"
Easy question to answer, but while answering the question I learned that the 4GB of songs were purchased from iTunes and that this person was scared to move them from PC to PC because he heard about the limitations put on the number of PCs a song can be on.
Now for the "lock in realization"... I told my friend not to worry much about the PC issue, but that songs purchased from iTunes can't be put on other MP3 players and his response was "I didn't realize that". Ok... here is someone who has made a $1,000 investment in music and now is locked-in to the iPod.
If he wants to play these songs on a different device he is screwed. He will have to go through the hassle of burning hundreds of CDs and then ripping them. I of course went on to tell him that songs purchased from Real are portable to the most number of devices, including the iPod....
The reason I am raising this issue is that this is something thousands of consumers across the country are dealing with, and they won't be happy to learn they bought songs that lock them in to a platform.
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
FireFox ... not a flash in the pan.
A story over at News.com details the continued acceptance of FireFox in the market. Mozilla based browsers (of which FireFox is one) now represent 6 percent of the market up from just 3.5% in June. I expect that the trend will continue given the lack of innovation from Microsoft on this front and the impending media hype around FireFox hitting 1.0 status.
It was reported about a month ago that tech sites like News.com had seen Mozilla based browsers representing around 20% of their traffic. At that time I saw essentially the same trend,... now my Mozilla based browser share is up to 28%.... with MSFT taking the other 72%.
At a little less technical site, MarketingPlayBook.com Microsoft has a 75% share with 7% safari and the remaining 18% mozilla based. Two different blogs, each on the technical marketing side, but not targeted toward the developer community seeing huge non-IE based traffic.
It was reported about a month ago that tech sites like News.com had seen Mozilla based browsers representing around 20% of their traffic. At that time I saw essentially the same trend,... now my Mozilla based browser share is up to 28%.... with MSFT taking the other 72%.
At a little less technical site, MarketingPlayBook.com Microsoft has a 75% share with 7% safari and the remaining 18% mozilla based. Two different blogs, each on the technical marketing side, but not targeted toward the developer community seeing huge non-IE based traffic.
Get out the vote!
Not that anyone reading this doesn't know it, but make sure to vote today! I ran into a bar tender the other night who said he wasn't going to vote b/c he didn't think it would matter, well the last election was decided by a few hundred votes in FL... so get out there and make your voice heard.
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