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T-Mobile commits web anti-marketing blunder

Amazing super-blunder.  What were they thinking…

More on England’s failure

To follow up on yesterday’s post, Tony makes some very good points in this article.  Definitely worth reading.

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Tags: soccer, footy, England

England crashes out of Euro 2008

Much has been written about this but the NY Times takes the cake with this offering.  Apparently, Sir Alex and David Beckham disagree about English football being completely broken.   Roy Keane is on to something.  Not sure he is correct but I do think the problem is more mental than physical.

Much has also been made of the fact that the EPL has so many non-English players and that this somehow has contributed to the lack of good English players.  This is a convenient excuse but England did not qualify for the 1974 and 1978 world cups either and at that time pretty much all the players in the league were from the UK.  So the problem is not new.  It would be fun to see them play up to their potential in a large tournament.

Tags: soccer, footy, england

Rodrigo y Gabriela Fever Sweeps the Nation

Been listening to this for a while. Everyone likes them. They rock.

Michael Gartenberg becomes a Microsoft evangelist

Michael Gartenberg has left Jupiter and joined Microsoft as an evangelist.  I think he was a good analyst and enjoyed his blog so I am sorry that he will not continue in that capacity.  Will he be a good evangelist for Microsoft?  Time will tell.  Hopefully he talked to Scoble before he took the job so he knows what he is getting into.  If nothing else it will be interesting and I wish him well.

DRM music not selling

David Caulton has an excellent analysis of iTunes music sold.  It is much more revealing than the piece that caused all the stir back in November.  I guess I would only add that I don’t think iPod/iTunes would work as well as it does today if DRM was involved on every song.  My bet is that the software would have serious problems that don’t really show up because the DRM volume is so low right now.  DRM remains a serious obstacle to music consumption.

No Zune review because there are too many bad ones…

I agree that there has been a lot of Zune coverage, this post is kind of silly.  Om gets a Zune but does not bother to review it because there are so many bad reviews.  I guess I don’t get the logic of that.  I would think Om could make up his own mind.  (Quoting CNN as a reliable/influential source on music players also seems a bit flawed.)

I think everyone knows that the Zune player was not going to be a home-run out of the gate.  But that’s not really the point. 

GigaOM » Zuned Out

Weird Zune story

Dave Winer blogs about a restriction MSFT is trying to enforce about using the Zune logo in some cross-promotional thing they are trying to do with Rocketboom.  I find it hard to believe that MSFT would use such a restriction.  There has to be more to this story.

Original post from Andrew Baron’s blog:  Dembot: Zune