X Marks the Spot

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told by someone that they have a great idea for a website or app, and they guard it like they know the location of X on the treasure map. An idea’s terrific (well not this one guy’s idea. They already made that and it’s called Facebook). People think you can just will good products to life, especially software. They undervalue design, development, production, user testing, market research and marketing as being worth less than the idea itself. Are you passionate, driven... Read full article →

Are the Beatles clinging to CD release for corporate spite?

So tomorrow’s iPod-centric Apple event won’t be including the Beatles coming to iTunes on the day the remastered CDs come to retail. Apple Corps (The Beatles) has fueded with Apple Inc (formerly Apple Computer), so you have to wonder if this is a continuation of that. I would think this isn’t some silly way of preventing Apple Inc from making money on Beatles music, considering the post-Beatles music by John, Paul, George and Ringo is available on iTunes. Do the artists (and their estates) have less control over their single-career... Read full article →