In what is almost a perfect example of how preposer hype works, the media is helping preposer.com prove its worth. Now, of course, Feist and Broken Social Scene were hardly underground when I wrote last week’s post, but this week their exposure increased ten-fold with a feature article in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. Collective [...]
Keep Reading » 0Of the two of us, I am the marketing guru. For those of you keeping score at home, i’m Ari and he’s Tyler. As such, my mantra for preposer is simplicity. And for that, I invite you to follow me on an allegorical journey through the kind of thing I hope preposer will facilitate. I, [...]
Keep Reading » 0just venting a little, but as much as I believe in what I’m working on right now, I continue to get frustrated at how many annoying web 2.0 apps (not all, just some) there are out there. Sometimes I just hate the internet, but then I discover something wonderful, and it’s like I’m a little [...]
Keep Reading » 0There’s been a large debate on the Internet about last.fm v. pandora. What ever happened to good old-fashioned “hearing about music from friends?” I remember how I heard about 2 Skinnee J’s [rip], but I have no measurement for how little satisfaction I received for being Dane Cook’s 457,232nd friend on myspace [no hyperlink required]. [...]
Keep Reading » 0Popularity certainly is a slippery slope, an unquantifiable beast that no one seems to have mastered. Sometimes, we find ourselves at the mercy of a phenomenon that just seems innately popular. Other times, we fight tooth and nail and hope that others will recognize genius as we do. We sometimes admonish those who “sell-out”, and [...]
Keep Reading » 0I was reading an interesting article about some research done at Columbia about why certain music is popular. Turns out people are more likely to like music that is popular. Why are we willing to trust popular opinion in certain fields. I’ll admit that I read the Most E-mailed Items NYT feed, but I also [...]
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