Check out this post from the head of Yahoo! Music!:
Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends
bits that should make you want to read are:
in a manner of speaking iTunes is a spreadsheet that plays music. It’s context-free. You just paid $10 for that album — who plays drums? I dunno, WHY DON’T YOU GO TO THE WEB TO FIND OUT, BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE CONTEXT IS.
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But the content experience on the Web is crap. Go to Aquarium Drunkard, click an MP3. If you don’t get a 404, you’ll get a Save As… dialog or the SAME GOD DAMN QUICKTIME BAR FROM 1995. OMFG. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THIS IS ALL WE’VE ACCOMPLISHED IN 15 YEARS ON THE WEB? It makes me insane.
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FIX IT. Your fans are pouring their music-loving hearts into blogs, Wikipedia, etc and what tools have you given them to work with? Not much, unfortunately.
This is what I’m vowing to devote my energy, and Yahoo!’s energy to
Go tell him to buy Sleevenotez. It's the product he wants and it already exists...
2 comments:
Yes I saw this yesterday, meant to mention it in all the chaos of rolling out the cribinator :)
What Sleevenotez really needs, IMHO, is an embedded player. Now that would be the bomb...
And as mentioned, Yahoo, could be the one to do it...
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