Alienating your best fans: Music, P2P, & LinkedIn at Digital Music - The Future

What does social networking and music have in common? Quite a lot. Consider the meteoric rise of MySpace. Music is entwined with popular culture, interests, and friends, the stuff of networking. There also are similarities in the leaders of these industries. Monopolies and success, separate and together, protect archaic business models and breed arrogance, which alienate customers, which impacts the bottom line. We've seen it in the music business. RIAA, representing the [...] Read More


Connect to other Digital Media Insiders at Digital Music - The Future

I've created a special group on LinkedIn where you can directly connect with other P2P, distributed computing, and digital media business executives and professionals. LinkedIn is the world's largest business network with over 8 million executives and professionals worldwide. Membership to both LinkedIn and the group are free. P2P Insider LinkedIn group membership enables you to: - Easily search for other group members to propose deals, make new business contacts, [...] Read More


Business Linking For Success at Digital Music - The Future

We're pleased to offer our readers free membership to The P2P Insiders LinkedIn group. The group is a part of LinkedIn, by far the world's largest online networking site with ten million users. You can directly connect with other P2P, distributed computing, and digital media business executives and professionals. What is it good for, you ask? P2P Insiders LinkedIn group membership enables you to: - Easily search for other group [...] Read More


Alienating your best fans: Music, P2P, & LinkedIn at P2P File Sharing

What does social networking and music have in common? Quite a lot. Consider the meteoric rise of MySpace. Music is entwined with popular culture, interests, and friends, the stuff of networking. There also are similarities in the leaders of these industries. Monopolies and success, separate and together, protect archaic business models and breed arrogance, which alienate customers, which impacts the bottom line. We've seen it in the music business. RIAA, representing the [...] Read More


LinkedIn: Get Connected to Other Entrepreneurs at Home Based Business

On my previous post about top online tools for home businesses and sales boosters for 2007, I mentioned LinkedIn. However, it wasn't introduced well. So, here it goes. LinkedIn is a social network, dubbed as Grownups' MySpace, made especially for business people. You don't only get connected to old friends or even just recent acquaintances, with LinkedIn you can also do the following options: - Promote your business with the help of [...] Read More