Read more ... Paris Hilton is going to jail for 45 days. Wondering what will she does on jail? Cry, make a video or drunk? News by celebsphoto
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Paris Hilton Is Going To Jail for 45 Days
Read more ... Paris Hilton is going to jail for 45 days. Wondering what will she does on jail? Cry, make a video or drunk? News by celebsphoto
» The Top Celebrity Photos Of The Week, Captioned - Mocksie.com
Read more ... A picture is worth a thousand words. Celebrities are worth a zillion dollars. The two together…well, that’s math I just can’t do. Gossip by mocksie
Paris Hilton given jail sentence
Read more ... Heiress Paris Hilton will spend 45 days in jail after a Los Angeles court found her guilty of driving with a suspended licence. Scoop by santosh111
Rachel Hunter to Play Lesbain in Cooking Romance
Read more ... Supermodel Rachel Hunter is looking to relaunch her acting career as a sexy lesbian.
The former wife of rocker Rod Stewart, who has appeared in movies like Rock Star and The Benchwarmers, is taking on her biggest role to date in a steamy new film, called La Cucina.
Joaquim de Almeida and Leisha Hailey star in the film, which focuses on the lives of two romantic cooks on one magical evening.Hunter plays the lesbian who lives above Hailey's pregnant character and offers love advice to her neighbour. Lascivious by vadisaif
Paris Hilton to spend 45 days behind bars!
Read more ... A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced socialite Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail on May 4, for violating her probation. Scandalous by celebgossips
What Do You Think of Heidi Montag's Fake Boobs?
Read more ... The Hills star Heidi Montag showed off her new pair of boobs and her new nose in a pink bikini. I think she looks great, way better than before but it's obvious that her new pair doesn't look anything like natural breasts. source. But Montag, 20, exclusively tells Usmagazine.com,
"What I do to my body is for myself and is no one's business but mine." Sexy by celebsphoto
Angelina Jolie Refused to Work at Night
Read more ... The actress, who is currently in the Czech Republic shooting "Wanted," ask that cause she want to spend her evenings with lover Brad Pitt and their children. Celebrity Spotting by celebsphoto
Paris Hilton Is Going To Jail for 45 Days
Read more ... Paris Hilton is going to jail for 45 days. Wondering what will she does on jail? Cry, make a video or drunk? News by celebsphoto
» The Top Celebrity Photos Of The Week, Captioned - Mocksie.com
Read more ... A picture is worth a thousand words. Celebrities are worth a zillion dollars. The two together…well, that’s math I just can’t do. Gossip by mocksie
Paris Hilton given jail sentence
Read more ... Heiress Paris Hilton will spend 45 days in jail after a Los Angeles court found her guilty of driving with a suspended licence. Scoop by santosh111
Paris Hilton given jail sentence
Read more ... Heiress Paris Hilton will spend 45 days in jail after a Los Angeles court found her guilty of driving with a suspended licence. Scoop by santosh111
Rachel Hunter to Play Lesbain in Cooking Romance
Read more ... Supermodel Rachel Hunter is looking to relaunch her acting career as a sexy lesbian.
The former wife of rocker Rod Stewart, who has appeared in movies like Rock Star and The Benchwarmers, is taking on her biggest role to date in a steamy new film, called La Cucina.
Joaquim de Almeida and Leisha Hailey star in the film, which focuses on the lives of two romantic cooks on one magical evening.Hunter plays the lesbian who lives above Hailey's pregnant character and offers love advice to her neighbour. Lascivious by vadisaif
Friday, May 4, 2007
Kelly Clarkson Received Harsh Criticism
Read more ... Kelly Clarkson reportedly received some harsh criticism from Sony BMG chief Clive Davis about her new album. It looks like she has scrapped what she worked on so far and has to head back to the studio to work on new tracks. A source reported to the Daily Star... Gossip by vera123
Kelly Clarkson Received Harsh Criticism
Read more ... Kelly Clarkson reportedly received some harsh criticism from Sony BMG chief Clive Davis about her new album. It looks like she has scrapped what she worked on so far and has to head back to the studio to work on new tracks. A source reported to the Daily Star... Gossip by vera123
Paul Graham - The Record Label Executive he is a mere money digger
Read more ... Paul Graham is the typical music label boss, but instead of finding bands, he finds technology companies. He goes out, finds talented people working in their garage, and tries to use them to make the one hit wonder. Like the label boss, it’s not just the hit song or the hit application he’s looking for - he’s also looking for the face to market this with.
And like the label boss, he is not looking for the guy who is going to change the face of music. He’s looking for the guy who will make money. He’s looking for the guy riding the trendwave, but doing it just a bit different.
The one-hit wonder is never the guy who creates a new type of music. It’s not the black guy Rocking and Rolling on the street corner, it’s not the Jamaican kid with the heavy bass line, it’s not the british kids with the twanging guitars, it’s not the guy with a gun on his album covers shouting to scratched records.
One hit wonders make happy music that fits in perfectly with the current market. Creating a band that will make a quick and sure payoff means not taking too much risk. It has the disadvantage that bland twists on currently existing stuff are produced, however.
It’s easy to look at Paul Graham and think - hey, he’s one of the boys! He’s a hacker, just like us! He cares about the technology! Well, if you ever were put in Paul Grahams position as a partner in an investment portfolio, you would stop being the way you are now. Being an investor means that you are playing a hacking game too, but the object of this hacking game is to make you some money. And to do that, you cannot take 10 risky investments - you have to go with 8 safe investments, and take 2 risky investments. You have to look at trends, and you have to go with the trends. You have to calculate where the biggest chance of the pay off is.
It’s a different mindset, and in its own way, it’s brilliant. A guy running a music label needs to be good at selling bands, not at making or selling music. There is money in a song, but it’s the band that produces the hit. That’s the same thing Paul does - he sells companies. Not products.
In yet another way, Paul is like a record label boss. Just like certain artists with little talent become big with good label bosses and the appropriate marketing aparatus, Paul can create a company just by the marketing machine that surrounds him. Let’s look at the classic example - Reddit. Reddit is nothing! Reddit is just a list of links. Anyone could make reddit. Reddit did not pioneer anything, they just had a different user interface on the same thing digg was doing.
What made Reddit was that Paul Graham drove traffic to it. Reddit is the sum of its users, and Reddit has sane, mature discussion because those are the very people that Paul Graham drove there. Without the Paul marketing, Reddit would not exist.
Like a label boss would market a band without value, and create value on the basis of recognition, Paul has created value for reddit by marketing it.
And it’s a brilliant thing! Paul made a lot of money off this. He gets the business game, and he played it to perfection on Reddit.
We from the downloading generation tend to see Music Bosses as the evil overlords. They are the people who take music and squeeze originality out of it so they can produce something that makes money. But these music bosses are neccesary! They market a type of music and by their marketing, they create a market for this music. Music would be a ragged mess with hundreds of competing mediocre bands all with different variations on the same thing. The music companies pick one of the bands and market it so that everyone focuses on that single band, allowing a lot of money to be made by both the band and the people behind the band.
Paul does the same thing with startups too. It’s not evil, it’s just business.
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1. 1 Jared on May 3rd, 2007 said:
While you make some interesting points here, your analysis of Reddit and the role that Paul Graham played in marketing it is inaccurate. I thought I’d just clarify a few things:
1. The traffic that paulgraham.com drove to Reddit was just a tiny amount of seed traffic back at the very beginning. Sure, that seed traffic may have given them a little push that saved them some time, but it was the Reddit guys who took that seed traffic and multiplied it by hundred-folds to create Reddit.
2. Reddit did not copy Digg. They began at roughly the same time.
3. The fact that the Reddit software seems simple does not mean that creating Reddit is simple. First off, the software is more complex than it seems, and in particular, designing that software without someone to copy was not easy. More importantly, creating Reddit involved understanding that this was a good idea before anyone else did, and doing a lot of hard, manual marketing and community building.
Hope that helps! News by mrmr
Paul Graham - The Record Label Executive he is a mere money digger
Read more ... Paul Graham is the typical music label boss, but instead of finding bands, he finds technology companies. He goes out, finds talented people working in their garage, and tries to use them to make the one hit wonder. Like the label boss, it’s not just the hit song or the hit application he’s looking for - he’s also looking for the face to market this with.
And like the label boss, he is not looking for the guy who is going to change the face of music. He’s looking for the guy who will make money. He’s looking for the guy riding the trendwave, but doing it just a bit different.
The one-hit wonder is never the guy who creates a new type of music. It’s not the black guy Rocking and Rolling on the street corner, it’s not the Jamaican kid with the heavy bass line, it’s not the british kids with the twanging guitars, it’s not the guy with a gun on his album covers shouting to scratched records.
One hit wonders make happy music that fits in perfectly with the current market. Creating a band that will make a quick and sure payoff means not taking too much risk. It has the disadvantage that bland twists on currently existing stuff are produced, however.
It’s easy to look at Paul Graham and think - hey, he’s one of the boys! He’s a hacker, just like us! He cares about the technology! Well, if you ever were put in Paul Grahams position as a partner in an investment portfolio, you would stop being the way you are now. Being an investor means that you are playing a hacking game too, but the object of this hacking game is to make you some money. And to do that, you cannot take 10 risky investments - you have to go with 8 safe investments, and take 2 risky investments. You have to look at trends, and you have to go with the trends. You have to calculate where the biggest chance of the pay off is.
It’s a different mindset, and in its own way, it’s brilliant. A guy running a music label needs to be good at selling bands, not at making or selling music. There is money in a song, but it’s the band that produces the hit. That’s the same thing Paul does - he sells companies. Not products.
In yet another way, Paul is like a record label boss. Just like certain artists with little talent become big with good label bosses and the appropriate marketing aparatus, Paul can create a company just by the marketing machine that surrounds him. Let’s look at the classic example - Reddit. Reddit is nothing! Reddit is just a list of links. Anyone could make reddit. Reddit did not pioneer anything, they just had a different user interface on the same thing digg was doing.
What made Reddit was that Paul Graham drove traffic to it. Reddit is the sum of its users, and Reddit has sane, mature discussion because those are the very people that Paul Graham drove there. Without the Paul marketing, Reddit would not exist.
Like a label boss would market a band without value, and create value on the basis of recognition, Paul has created value for reddit by marketing it.
And it’s a brilliant thing! Paul made a lot of money off this. He gets the business game, and he played it to perfection on Reddit.
We from the downloading generation tend to see Music Bosses as the evil overlords. They are the people who take music and squeeze originality out of it so they can produce something that makes money. But these music bosses are neccesary! They market a type of music and by their marketing, they create a market for this music. Music would be a ragged mess with hundreds of competing mediocre bands all with different variations on the same thing. The music companies pick one of the bands and market it so that everyone focuses on that single band, allowing a lot of money to be made by both the band and the people behind the band.
Paul does the same thing with startups too. It’s not evil, it’s just business.
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5 Responses to “Paul Graham - The Record Label Executive”
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1. 1 Jared on May 3rd, 2007 said:
While you make some interesting points here, your analysis of Reddit and the role that Paul Graham played in marketing it is inaccurate. I thought I’d just clarify a few things:
1. The traffic that paulgraham.com drove to Reddit was just a tiny amount of seed traffic back at the very beginning. Sure, that seed traffic may have given them a little push that saved them some time, but it was the Reddit guys who took that seed traffic and multiplied it by hundred-folds to create Reddit.
2. Reddit did not copy Digg. They began at roughly the same time.
3. The fact that the Reddit software seems simple does not mean that creating Reddit is simple. First off, the software is more complex than it seems, and in particular, designing that software without someone to copy was not easy. More importantly, creating Reddit involved understanding that this was a good idea before anyone else did, and doing a lot of hard, manual marketing and community building.
Hope that helps! News by mrmr
Disney Targets Pre-Teens with New Social Networking Portal not as good as teenwag!
Read more ... Disney has joined the ever growing list social networking destinations with the launch of Disney Xtreme Digital, targeted directly at Disney’s core market of pre-teens.
The new service, said perhaps lazily by some outlets as being a MySpace clone, comes complete with user generated profile pages that leverage the wealth of Disney’s pre-teen friendly content in terms of allowing customization, as well as offering the standard competitions, video, music, games and networking features. Naturally Disney has also included strong parental controls, that include the ability to limit access access to the various features on the site, including chat.
The service currently opens in beta, with users restricted to the United States only.
The pre-teen marketplace has been ignored to date by most existing social networking sites, the litany of potential, and actual legal issues regarding children under 14 keeping many away. For that very reason though, it’s an online demographic that lacks a lot of serious competition, and holds a wealth of potential for Disney in further expanding the Disney brand online.
From a parents perspective though, I couldn’t help but think that the entire service was nothing more than a constant stream of advertisements for Disney movies and related products. Parents who worry about their children being exposed to marketing messages are not going to like Disney XD.
One can only hope that they don’t mix the content up on the new service, as it appears as if they’ve done recently by exposing children to porn on Comcast. News by mrmr
Disney Targets Pre-Teens with New Social Networking Portal not as good as teenwag!
Read more ... Disney has joined the ever growing list social networking destinations with the launch of Disney Xtreme Digital, targeted directly at Disney’s core market of pre-teens.
The new service, said perhaps lazily by some outlets as being a MySpace clone, comes complete with user generated profile pages that leverage the wealth of Disney’s pre-teen friendly content in terms of allowing customization, as well as offering the standard competitions, video, music, games and networking features. Naturally Disney has also included strong parental controls, that include the ability to limit access access to the various features on the site, including chat.
The service currently opens in beta, with users restricted to the United States only.
The pre-teen marketplace has been ignored to date by most existing social networking sites, the litany of potential, and actual legal issues regarding children under 14 keeping many away. For that very reason though, it’s an online demographic that lacks a lot of serious competition, and holds a wealth of potential for Disney in further expanding the Disney brand online.
From a parents perspective though, I couldn’t help but think that the entire service was nothing more than a constant stream of advertisements for Disney movies and related products. Parents who worry about their children being exposed to marketing messages are not going to like Disney XD.
One can only hope that they don’t mix the content up on the new service, as it appears as if they’ve done recently by exposing children to porn on Comcast. News by mrmr
Fashion Magazine - PRISON FOR PARIS?
Read more ... Oooh - we need something to settle our nerves today. Why? Well, everyone's favourite shopaholic hotel heiress Paris Hilton is due in court to answer charges of "flagrantly disregarding" a drink-drive ban. What's more, she could end up in prison, if found guilty. LA city attorney Rockard J Delgadillo (sorry to digress, but what a fantastic name!) has filed papers, requesting that Paris be made to serve 45 days in jail for her alleged violation. He also calls for her to be banned from drinking for 90 days, claiming she refused to follow a court order to attend an alcohol education programme within 21 days. (Well, she's too busy for things like that, Rockard - anyone who reads the tabloids can see that.) If judges agree, Paris may be tagged with an anti-alcohol thingummy-widget, which will let police know the second she's touched a drop. Hmmm... sounds like this could get quite serious. But what the hell will the paparazzi do if Paris is locked up for 45 days? Lindsay Lohan - beware! They'll be on your case even more than usual... Scandalous by fashionmag
Fashion Magazine - PRISON FOR PARIS?
Read more ... Oooh - we need something to settle our nerves today. Why? Well, everyone's favourite shopaholic hotel heiress Paris Hilton is due in court to answer charges of "flagrantly disregarding" a drink-drive ban. What's more, she could end up in prison, if found guilty. LA city attorney Rockard J Delgadillo (sorry to digress, but what a fantastic name!) has filed papers, requesting that Paris be made to serve 45 days in jail for her alleged violation. He also calls for her to be banned from drinking for 90 days, claiming she refused to follow a court order to attend an alcohol education programme within 21 days. (Well, she's too busy for things like that, Rockard - anyone who reads the tabloids can see that.) If judges agree, Paris may be tagged with an anti-alcohol thingummy-widget, which will let police know the second she's touched a drop. Hmmm... sounds like this could get quite serious. But what the hell will the paparazzi do if Paris is locked up for 45 days? Lindsay Lohan - beware! They'll be on your case even more than usual... Scandalous by fashionmag
Fashion Magazine - Natalie Portman Nippy Side Boob. Nice.
Read more ... So, I was basically just going to talk about how insanely pretty and perfect Natalie Portman is, and that she's amazing and can do no wrong, and then I noticed something. What did I notice? I noticed that Natalie Portman's nipples are totally poking their way through her dress. That's what. I also noticed that while Natalie Portman's breasts are definitely on the small side (not that there's anything wrong with that), she's showing some awesome side boob. I mean, does it get any better than that? Does it get better than Natalie Portman nipples and side boob? Well, yes, but not by much. At least not in my book. In case you're wondering, that book is entitled "Natalie Portman: She Will Be Mine. Oh Yes, She Will Be Mine." Click on the pictures for the full effect. Paparazzi by fashionmag
Fashion Magazine - Natalie Portman Nippy Side Boob. Nice.
Read more ... So, I was basically just going to talk about how insanely pretty and perfect Natalie Portman is, and that she's amazing and can do no wrong, and then I noticed something. What did I notice? I noticed that Natalie Portman's nipples are totally poking their way through her dress. That's what. I also noticed that while Natalie Portman's breasts are definitely on the small side (not that there's anything wrong with that), she's showing some awesome side boob. I mean, does it get any better than that? Does it get better than Natalie Portman nipples and side boob? Well, yes, but not by much. At least not in my book. In case you're wondering, that book is entitled "Natalie Portman: She Will Be Mine. Oh Yes, She Will Be Mine." Click on the pictures for the full effect. Paparazzi by fashionmag
Hey! There's A 737 Stuck In The Road
Read more ... Residents got the shock of their life when they discovered a 737 blocking their road in Mumbai, India! Breaking News by rahulmalh
Hey! There's A 737 Stuck In The Road
Read more ... Residents got the shock of their life when they discovered a 737 blocking their road in Mumbai, India! Breaking News by rahulmalh
Kelly Clarkson Received Harsh Criticism
Read more ... Kelly Clarkson reportedly received some harsh criticism from Sony BMG chief Clive Davis about her new album. It looks like she has scrapped what she worked on so far and has to head back to the studio to work on new tracks. A source reported to the Daily Star... Gossip by vera123
Kelly Clarkson Received Harsh Criticism
Read more ... Kelly Clarkson reportedly received some harsh criticism from Sony BMG chief Clive Davis about her new album. It looks like she has scrapped what she worked on so far and has to head back to the studio to work on new tracks. A source reported to the Daily Star... Gossip by vera123
Paul Graham - The Record Label Executive he is a mere money digger
Read more ... Paul Graham is the typical music label boss, but instead of finding bands, he finds technology companies. He goes out, finds talented people working in their garage, and tries to use them to make the one hit wonder. Like the label boss, it’s not just the hit song or the hit application he’s looking for - he’s also looking for the face to market this with.
And like the label boss, he is not looking for the guy who is going to change the face of music. He’s looking for the guy who will make money. He’s looking for the guy riding the trendwave, but doing it just a bit different.
The one-hit wonder is never the guy who creates a new type of music. It’s not the black guy Rocking and Rolling on the street corner, it’s not the Jamaican kid with the heavy bass line, it’s not the british kids with the twanging guitars, it’s not the guy with a gun on his album covers shouting to scratched records.
One hit wonders make happy music that fits in perfectly with the current market. Creating a band that will make a quick and sure payoff means not taking too much risk. It has the disadvantage that bland twists on currently existing stuff are produced, however.
It’s easy to look at Paul Graham and think - hey, he’s one of the boys! He’s a hacker, just like us! He cares about the technology! Well, if you ever were put in Paul Grahams position as a partner in an investment portfolio, you would stop being the way you are now. Being an investor means that you are playing a hacking game too, but the object of this hacking game is to make you some money. And to do that, you cannot take 10 risky investments - you have to go with 8 safe investments, and take 2 risky investments. You have to look at trends, and you have to go with the trends. You have to calculate where the biggest chance of the pay off is.
It’s a different mindset, and in its own way, it’s brilliant. A guy running a music label needs to be good at selling bands, not at making or selling music. There is money in a song, but it’s the band that produces the hit. That’s the same thing Paul does - he sells companies. Not products.
In yet another way, Paul is like a record label boss. Just like certain artists with little talent become big with good label bosses and the appropriate marketing aparatus, Paul can create a company just by the marketing machine that surrounds him. Let’s look at the classic example - Reddit. Reddit is nothing! Reddit is just a list of links. Anyone could make reddit. Reddit did not pioneer anything, they just had a different user interface on the same thing digg was doing.
What made Reddit was that Paul Graham drove traffic to it. Reddit is the sum of its users, and Reddit has sane, mature discussion because those are the very people that Paul Graham drove there. Without the Paul marketing, Reddit would not exist.
Like a label boss would market a band without value, and create value on the basis of recognition, Paul has created value for reddit by marketing it.
And it’s a brilliant thing! Paul made a lot of money off this. He gets the business game, and he played it to perfection on Reddit.
We from the downloading generation tend to see Music Bosses as the evil overlords. They are the people who take music and squeeze originality out of it so they can produce something that makes money. But these music bosses are neccesary! They market a type of music and by their marketing, they create a market for this music. Music would be a ragged mess with hundreds of competing mediocre bands all with different variations on the same thing. The music companies pick one of the bands and market it so that everyone focuses on that single band, allowing a lot of money to be made by both the band and the people behind the band.
Paul does the same thing with startups too. It’s not evil, it’s just business.
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1. 1 Jared on May 3rd, 2007 said:
While you make some interesting points here, your analysis of Reddit and the role that Paul Graham played in marketing it is inaccurate. I thought I’d just clarify a few things:
1. The traffic that paulgraham.com drove to Reddit was just a tiny amount of seed traffic back at the very beginning. Sure, that seed traffic may have given them a little push that saved them some time, but it was the Reddit guys who took that seed traffic and multiplied it by hundred-folds to create Reddit.
2. Reddit did not copy Digg. They began at roughly the same time.
3. The fact that the Reddit software seems simple does not mean that creating Reddit is simple. First off, the software is more complex than it seems, and in particular, designing that software without someone to copy was not easy. More importantly, creating Reddit involved understanding that this was a good idea before anyone else did, and doing a lot of hard, manual marketing and community building.
Hope that helps! News by mrmr
Disney Targets Pre-Teens with New Social Networking Portal not as good as teenwag!
Read more ... Disney has joined the ever growing list social networking destinations with the launch of Disney Xtreme Digital, targeted directly at Disney’s core market of pre-teens.
The new service, said perhaps lazily by some outlets as being a MySpace clone, comes complete with user generated profile pages that leverage the wealth of Disney’s pre-teen friendly content in terms of allowing customization, as well as offering the standard competitions, video, music, games and networking features. Naturally Disney has also included strong parental controls, that include the ability to limit access access to the various features on the site, including chat.
The service currently opens in beta, with users restricted to the United States only.
The pre-teen marketplace has been ignored to date by most existing social networking sites, the litany of potential, and actual legal issues regarding children under 14 keeping many away. For that very reason though, it’s an online demographic that lacks a lot of serious competition, and holds a wealth of potential for Disney in further expanding the Disney brand online.
From a parents perspective though, I couldn’t help but think that the entire service was nothing more than a constant stream of advertisements for Disney movies and related products. Parents who worry about their children being exposed to marketing messages are not going to like Disney XD.
One can only hope that they don’t mix the content up on the new service, as it appears as if they’ve done recently by exposing children to porn on Comcast. News by mrmr
Disney Targets Pre-Teens with New Social Networking Portal not as good as teenwag!
Read more ... Disney has joined the ever growing list social networking destinations with the launch of Disney Xtreme Digital, targeted directly at Disney’s core market of pre-teens.
The new service, said perhaps lazily by some outlets as being a MySpace clone, comes complete with user generated profile pages that leverage the wealth of Disney’s pre-teen friendly content in terms of allowing customization, as well as offering the standard competitions, video, music, games and networking features. Naturally Disney has also included strong parental controls, that include the ability to limit access access to the various features on the site, including chat.
The service currently opens in beta, with users restricted to the United States only.
The pre-teen marketplace has been ignored to date by most existing social networking sites, the litany of potential, and actual legal issues regarding children under 14 keeping many away. For that very reason though, it’s an online demographic that lacks a lot of serious competition, and holds a wealth of potential for Disney in further expanding the Disney brand online.
From a parents perspective though, I couldn’t help but think that the entire service was nothing more than a constant stream of advertisements for Disney movies and related products. Parents who worry about their children being exposed to marketing messages are not going to like Disney XD.
One can only hope that they don’t mix the content up on the new service, as it appears as if they’ve done recently by exposing children to porn on Comcast. News by mrmr
Kelly Clarkson Received Harsh Criticism
Read more ... Kelly Clarkson reportedly received some harsh criticism from Sony BMG chief Clive Davis about her new album. It looks like she has scrapped what she worked on so far and has to head back to the studio to work on new tracks. A source reported to the Daily Star... Gossip by vera123
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Paul Graham - The Record Label Executive he is a mere money digger
Read more ... Paul Graham is the typical music label boss, but instead of finding bands, he finds technology companies. He goes out, finds talented people working in their garage, and tries to use them to make the one hit wonder. Like the label boss, it’s not just the hit song or the hit application he’s looking for - he’s also looking for the face to market this with.
And like the label boss, he is not looking for the guy who is going to change the face of music. He’s looking for the guy who will make money. He’s looking for the guy riding the trendwave, but doing it just a bit different.
The one-hit wonder is never the guy who creates a new type of music. It’s not the black guy Rocking and Rolling on the street corner, it’s not the Jamaican kid with the heavy bass line, it’s not the british kids with the twanging guitars, it’s not the guy with a gun on his album covers shouting to scratched records.
One hit wonders make happy music that fits in perfectly with the current market. Creating a band that will make a quick and sure payoff means not taking too much risk. It has the disadvantage that bland twists on currently existing stuff are produced, however.
It’s easy to look at Paul Graham and think - hey, he’s one of the boys! He’s a hacker, just like us! He cares about the technology! Well, if you ever were put in Paul Grahams position as a partner in an investment portfolio, you would stop being the way you are now. Being an investor means that you are playing a hacking game too, but the object of this hacking game is to make you some money. And to do that, you cannot take 10 risky investments - you have to go with 8 safe investments, and take 2 risky investments. You have to look at trends, and you have to go with the trends. You have to calculate where the biggest chance of the pay off is.
It’s a different mindset, and in its own way, it’s brilliant. A guy running a music label needs to be good at selling bands, not at making or selling music. There is money in a song, but it’s the band that produces the hit. That’s the same thing Paul does - he sells companies. Not products.
In yet another way, Paul is like a record label boss. Just like certain artists with little talent become big with good label bosses and the appropriate marketing aparatus, Paul can create a company just by the marketing machine that surrounds him. Let’s look at the classic example - Reddit. Reddit is nothing! Reddit is just a list of links. Anyone could make reddit. Reddit did not pioneer anything, they just had a different user interface on the same thing digg was doing.
What made Reddit was that Paul Graham drove traffic to it. Reddit is the sum of its users, and Reddit has sane, mature discussion because those are the very people that Paul Graham drove there. Without the Paul marketing, Reddit would not exist.
Like a label boss would market a band without value, and create value on the basis of recognition, Paul has created value for reddit by marketing it.
And it’s a brilliant thing! Paul made a lot of money off this. He gets the business game, and he played it to perfection on Reddit.
We from the downloading generation tend to see Music Bosses as the evil overlords. They are the people who take music and squeeze originality out of it so they can produce something that makes money. But these music bosses are neccesary! They market a type of music and by their marketing, they create a market for this music. Music would be a ragged mess with hundreds of competing mediocre bands all with different variations on the same thing. The music companies pick one of the bands and market it so that everyone focuses on that single band, allowing a lot of money to be made by both the band and the people behind the band.
Paul does the same thing with startups too. It’s not evil, it’s just business.
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1. 1 Jared on May 3rd, 2007 said:
While you make some interesting points here, your analysis of Reddit and the role that Paul Graham played in marketing it is inaccurate. I thought I’d just clarify a few things:
1. The traffic that paulgraham.com drove to Reddit was just a tiny amount of seed traffic back at the very beginning. Sure, that seed traffic may have given them a little push that saved them some time, but it was the Reddit guys who took that seed traffic and multiplied it by hundred-folds to create Reddit.
2. Reddit did not copy Digg. They began at roughly the same time.
3. The fact that the Reddit software seems simple does not mean that creating Reddit is simple. First off, the software is more complex than it seems, and in particular, designing that software without someone to copy was not easy. More importantly, creating Reddit involved understanding that this was a good idea before anyone else did, and doing a lot of hard, manual marketing and community building.
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