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Online Music & Web 3.0 (Part 2)
Top Music Sites and Rankings Among the online music portals, AOL Music has 15.66% market share (including Napster’s 2.6% market share) and more than 350,000 music subscribers to its credit. The site attracted 161,497,557 users in December 2006. AOL Music is the leading online music site with 25.2 million unique visitors, followed by Yahoo! Music
Online Music & Web 3.0 (Part 1)
Overview Online music has come a long way from the Napster years. Today there are many more legal sources of digital music and these have been growing over the past few years. Many consumers are willing to pay for music downloads and this has resulted in the emergence of Apple’s ITunes Music Store. But the
Rediff’s Acquisition Prospects
Rediff (Nasdaq: REDF) is reported to be in acquisition discussions with Google and Yahoo. The company’s stock moved up to an all-time high of $27.50 per share on July 12 from $17.94 on July 5. The trading volume increased to more than a million shares from an average of 50,000 share a day, and has
iPhone Competitors: Nokia’s Convergence Device Strategy
WSJ has a good roundup on the various iPhone competitors. One of the top iPhone competitors is expected to be Nokia’s N95, a high-end smart phone that, like the iPhone, has a relatively large color screen (2.6 in), can surf the Web and can play music and DVD-quality video. Unlike the iPhone, the N95, however,
Web 3.0 & Photobucket
We have discussed an overview of the photo sharing industry and Flickr and here we will take a look at Photobucket’s offering from a Web 3.0 perspective. Photobucket, founded in 2003, by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo-sharing site. VCs including Insight Venture Partners and Trinity
Golden Raft
I have often mentioned Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection of mystical lyric poems, Gitanjali. Throughout his long life, Tagore has been a prolific poet, musician, novelist, short story writer, essayist, and playwright. While he is successful in all these genres, it is his lyric poems that
As India Builds (Part 2)
My family is old Calcutta. We had rice paddy fields that greened as monsoon washed over them. Heavy-limbed mango orchards bearing the juiciest and most fragrant varietals. Homesteads. A home nestled in my grandfather’s legendary rose garden in the now traumatized Bengal-Bihar border. Our relatives’ houses dotted Calcutta. These old houses in the alleys of
Viacom’s Digital Strategy
Viacom, Inc. is a leading entertainment conglomerate operating through two segments: Media Networks, which includes MTV Networks and BET Networks, and Filmed Entertainment, which includes Paramount Pictures Corporation and Famous Music. The Company owns some of the most popular entertainment brands in the world including, BET, Famous Music, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy
