http://www.fulminator.com/2006/08/19/apple-acquires-lastfm/ Artful Invective Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:55:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.fulminator.com/2006/08/19/apple-acquires-lastfm/#comment-14 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:23:14 +0000 http://www.fulminator.com/2006/08/19/apple-acquires-lastfm/#comment-14 [...] I posted a clearly over the top post, “Apple Acquires Last.fm“, on 19 August of this year. It’s a provactive title that gets a little bit of search traffic my way. I didn’t write the post to get traffic. The web 2.0 acquisition market seemed so heady. I thought it’d be funny to package my iTunes wishlist as a critique of the silly enthusiatic part of the web2.0 lexicon (my GenreFolksonomies). I also have written another “wishlist” post to Apple — about wanting to switch to Mac. And in some weird sort of synchronicity, they addressed most of my needs by introducing the Mini. [...] […] I posted a clearly over the top post, “Apple Acquires Last.fm“, on 19 August of this year. It’s a provactive title that gets a little bit of search traffic my way. I didn’t write the post to get traffic. The web 2.0 acquisition market seemed so heady. I thought it’d be funny to package my iTunes wishlist as a critique of the silly enthusiatic part of the web2.0 lexicon (my GenreFolksonomies). I also have written another “wishlist” post to Apple — about wanting to switch to Mac. And in some weird sort of synchronicity, they addressed most of my needs by introducing the Mini. […]

]]> http://www.fulminator.com/2006/08/19/apple-acquires-lastfm/#comment-9 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:32:41 +0000 http://www.fulminator.com/2006/08/19/apple-acquires-lastfm/#comment-9 [...] Just a rumor, but it’s thinking along the right lines, creating a distributed network of value touchpoints, beyond the device itself and into human bahavior. By comparison, Apple’s improvements to the iPod and iTunes have been very stepwise and incremental, but nothing near revolutionary. (Why doesn’t iTunes integrate with Last.fm,for example?) What makes the iPod a success is simply an effortless user experience ecosystem between software and hardware to achieve common tasks. That in and of itself, I suppose, is revolutionary enough given how poor most integrated mobile + media experiences are in today’s market. [...] […] Just a rumor, but it’s thinking along the right lines, creating a distributed network of value touchpoints, beyond the device itself and into human bahavior. By comparison, Apple’s improvements to the iPod and iTunes have been very stepwise and incremental, but nothing near revolutionary. (Why doesn’t iTunes integrate with Last.fm,for example?) What makes the iPod a success is simply an effortless user experience ecosystem between software and hardware to achieve common tasks. That in and of itself, I suppose, is revolutionary enough given how poor most integrated mobile + media experiences are in today’s market. […]

]]> http://www.fulminator.com/2006/08/19/apple-acquires-lastfm/#comment-7 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:05:04 +0000 http://www.fulminator.com/2006/08/19/apple-acquires-lastfm/#comment-7 [...] this would be interesting. [...] […] this would be interesting. […]

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