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Warner Music To Last.fm: We’re Taking Our Music And Going Home

Posted 09 Jun 2008 — by admin
Category technology

There they go again… A few weeks back, I suggested that Warner Music would be smart to promote Ethan Kaplan, who is VP of Technology for Warner Brothers Records (a Warner Music Group Subsidiary), because he seemed to understand that the real trick was improving the overall experience people had around music, rather than focusing so narrowly on getting paid for every single usage. At the same time, however, the folks up at Warner Music, led by Edgar Bronfman (who claimed Warner would no longer be at war with music fans despite being the guy who started that war) were going out and suing all kinds of services that made the musical experience better.

As a record label, their job should be to get their musicians’ music out into the world in the most convenient way for anyone to enjoy, and to build business models based on that — just as Kaplan suggested. But, instead, Warner Music continues to be about as anti-consumer as it can possibly be. Its latest move is to have Last.fm remove all Warner Music from its service. Last.fm, which is now owned by CBS, is an exceptionally popular online music listening, discovery and e-commerce site. While it did overstate its “free” music service, it still is rather ridiculous that Warner would decide to take all its music and go home.

Warner should recognize that it needs Last.fm a lot more than Last.fm users need it. There’s plenty of music out there, and if they can’t find Warner Music on Last.fm, they’ll find someone else’s music instead.

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Google launches new mobile search engine

Posted 31 Jan 2008 — by admin
Category Gossips

Google has announced a new and improved version of its search engine for mobile phones. You can access it by going to google.co.uk/m — if you’ve used Google mobile before, you’ll immediately notice a few changes.The new start page looks more like the one you’d find when you’re using your computer, but more importantly the search results are now more similar to the standard results, with a mixture of mobile, news and normal results displayed.

There’s also the option to look at photos via Google Images, which is handy if you feel like seeing a pic of the latest gadget or you’re just vain and want to search for pictures of yourself online.

With phones and more specifically mobile browsers getting better at displaying standard Web pages, you’ll have the option to browse mobile content or normal content without needing to switch views, as you had to before.

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