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  • Innovation, Disruption and The Economics of Free

    Hank Williams managed to stir up quite the controversy with his recent post lamenting the rise of free and blaming the VCs . His assertion is that the venture capitalists have made free, ad-supported businesses the norm and effectively "ruined it for everyone else" (my words). I believe it...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-08-2008

  • T-Mobile doesn't know how to treat its customers

    It looks like T-Mobile dropped their data plan from $29.99/mo to $19.99/mo. I originally thought this was related to the new unlimited rate plans and losing the Starbucks account , but it was actually back in September (on my birthday no less). I must have missed it at the time, given that whole wedding...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-24-2008

  • DHL Sucks

    I ordered a package from Amazon and noticed they now have an option for Saturday delivery with Prime. Excellent... What I did not realize at the time is that this ships with DHL. Every single time something has been shipped to me via DHL, something went wrong. Once, a Bluetooth module for my M200 showed...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-03-2007

  • Steve Jobs and Apple telling half-truths about DRM

    This has already been covered ad nasuem , but I thought I should mention Apple's denouncement of DRM last week. Steve Jobs summarily dismissed Apple's DRM as a result of demands from the record labels. Since Apple does not own or control any music itself, it must license the rights to distribute music...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-13-2007

  • A look at Apple and Microsoft strategies

    I've been thinking about some of the interesting strategic decisions that Microsoft has made lately. I already discussed their curious IP licensing strategy , and their choices with Zune and Windows Media Player have me similarly baffled. In many ways, these moves have been something I expect more from...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-01-2007

  • Trying to Cancel Office Live

    I signed up for the Office Live beta earlier this year in Feb. I never actually used it much - it didn't add much value for me over Sharepoint and I preferred hosting my own site considering there were somewhat private things on there. Now that the beta test is over, my account was transferred over to...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-28-2006

  • Google bought the brand, not the technology

    Scoble says Google bought YouTube because it "realized it couldn’t make its own video service look as cool as YouTube." As I said before, Google was buying YouTube's audience and/or employees, not the technology . After listening to the Google-YouTube conference call, it definitely sounds like Chad and...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-12-2006

  • You can either fight change or embrace it

    ABC's President of Advertising Sales Mike Shaw would love to disable the fast forward button on DVRs . He reasoned that most get a DVR to time-shift and we don't really care about fast forwarding. Of course, Mike Shaw has a vested interest here. This is yet another example of businesses trying to resist...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-12-2006

  • Gartner sends a cease and desist to remove a link

    Scoble passes along that James Governor, an analyst for RedMonk, received a C&D from Gartner for a link . Wow. I obviously haven't seen the letter, but I'm trying to imagine what possible legal recourse they have to linking to a publicly visible URL. Obviously there's no copyright infringement and...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-11-2006

  • The Lost Mac Ads

    Perhaps in light of the Apple ads that don't make sense , Best Week Ever unveiled the Lost Mac ads this week featuring Christian Finnegan and Nick Kroll. PC: "Right, but a podcast about your favorite hoodies and independent films won't help you pay for that vacation." Mac: "No, that's what my trust fund...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-09-2006
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