Photo by: Catherine Amazon cloud player now live Amazon left Apple and Google watching their tail lights as they released their Cloud Player this week (so far US only). The player, a straight up locker service, lets users upload their music library to the “cloud” and stream if from there to any device, be it [...]

I came across this very interesting post about a variation of the Lean Startup approach. The flip. The purpose of the customer development steps taken in a Lean startup process is to establish a scalable business, but what if you have no intention of doing that? What if you plan to exit early? Ramine Darabiha [...]

  The field of Interaction Design has (rather) recently started to approach the Lean way of thinking, in the shape of a methodology called LeanUx. I welcome this, and it prompted me to write down a few words on the “expansion” of Lean into other areas. As readers of this blog probably know, I find [...]

iTunes in the cloud this spring? Both The Music Void and Hypebot report that Apple is hoping to have their long awaited locker service in place in the same release package as the advertised MobileMe re-launch this April. Warner is supposed to be onboard, and UMG and EMI is expected to follow. Observers say that [...]

DIY is a fine ambition but… David Dufresne of Bandzoogle organised a talk at SXSW and the description highlighted the nature of the DIY problem, misunderstood by so many. I think the sheer complexity of it all is too often forgotten. It’s probably wise to stay mindful of the challenges this brave new world poses, [...]

100 million USD funding round puts Spotify at 1 billion USD valuation Reports and rumours of Spotify’s recent fundraising endeavours have circled the Internet this week. Word is that Spotify is raising over 100 million USD. The deal is led by Russian venture firm DST, who has previous investments in Facebook, Groupon and Zynga. Over [...]