Since its inception, SoundExchange, the organization that collects royalty payments from digital music services like Pandora, has brought in more than $900 million—$292 million of which it collected last year alone. But how much of a cut does SoundExchange take for itself? Nothing, other than for operating and administrative costs.
Artists: SoundExchange Has Free Money For You, No Nigerian Princes Involved
— Emily Laermer, “NY area firms land most VC money since recession,” Crain’s New York Business (via nycedc)
(via nycdigital)
Today is a big day - one of the biggest in the short-ish history of our small-ish company. For the past year (37 years in Internet time), we’ve been working nonstop on a project that we’ve desperately wanted to tell you about. Because, frankly, it’s all about you. Our willpower muscles are pretty much at the breaking point right now, and so we are doubly ecstatic to finally let the tiger out of the satchel and make this officially official announcement: We built you a new Vimeo.
To learn more about these new big things in more detail, head over to vimeo.com/new. It’s also the place where members can sign up to try the new Vimeo as we roll it out over the next few weeks. Go ahead - you know you want to check it out!
I can’t really put into words how excited I am about this. This redesign has been the most insane/massive/incredible/crazy/fun/inspiring project we’ve ever worked on and we’re all extremely proud of it. Big ups to Sox, who basically initiated and designed the backbone of this whole project in his “spare” time.
Hope you like it!
Very cool
Organization:
Old: Marketing
New: Product (Product Management plus User Experience Design), a Peer to Technology and Marketing
Education:
Old: MBA
New: Computer Science or User Experience Design
Spends Days:
Old: Writing Requirements Documents
New: Product Discovery / Pursuing Minimum Viable Product
Learns About Customer Behavior:
Old: With Focus Groups
New: With User Testing and A/B Testing
Makes Case For Project Funding Based On:
Old: A Business Case
New: Customer and Product Discovery
Reads:
Old: The Wall Street Journal
New: TechCrunch and GigaOM
Deep Knowledge In:
Old: How To Use Excel
New: His Customers
Loves:
Old: To Be The Boss
New: To Apply Technology To Solve Problems
Sits With:
Old: “The Business”
New: His Product Team (Designers and Developers)
When Things Don’t Go Well:
Old: He Blames The Developers
New: He Blames Himself
Strives To Please:
Old: His Stakeholders
New: His Customers (because he’s learned that’s the only way to really please the stakeholders)
Makes Decisions Based On:
Old: Opinions
New: Data
Communicates With Stakeholders:
Old: With PowerPoint
New: With Prototypes
Attitude:
Old: Believes His Ideas Are Great
New: Knows At Least Half of Ideas Won’t Work
Worries About:
Old: His Competitors
New: Taking Care Of His Customers
Secret Weapon:
Old: Killer Features
New: User Experience
Strives To Create:
Old: Profit
New: Value (because it’s the best path to sustained profits)
This last point may not be so obvious to people and it is the subject of an upcoming article.via @cagan
Rings true.
Dear internet startups, there’s no excuse not to A/B test your shit. You will learn horrible things about yourself. For example, that “really cool feature that you added that is so awesome people are going to be glued to my app,” doesn’t actually do anything to improve your core metrics. In fact…
Thank you Alex for the reminder to start doing this and stop making excuses.
Shazam Button To Appear On Traditional TV Remotes, As If By Magic
Should we expect a Shazam button to start showing up on traditional TV remote controls?
“Um … I can’t answer that question,” Fisher says with hesitation. “I mean, yes. We want to be pervasive, and we’re looking at consumer electronics devices. A lot of manufacturers of consumer electronic devices have approached us about building Shazam in. We think there’s real opportunity down the line in the connected TV experience, so we’re very interested in the space.”
Above, a mockup of what a Shazam button might look like implanted on a traditional remote control.
Great idea
dvdp:
“Tape Recorders” (2011) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
“Rows of motorised measuring tapes record the amount of time that visitors stay in the installation. As a computerised tracking system detects the presence of a person, the closest measuring tape starts to project upwards. When the tape reaches around 3m high it crashes and recoils back.”
(Source: todayandtomorrow.net, via ericmortensen)
To kick off (capsule) NY, (capsule) and Apple are teaming up for our first ever panel discussion! Designers Micah Cohen of Shades of Grey, Brett Fahlgren, and Derek Buse of Riviera Cub will be talking about their collections, and the ways they use iPads in the design process.
Featuring moderator: Kurt Soller
Friday January 13, 7pm
Apple Store, 401 West 14th Street, NYC
Just launched a new homepage and plans page for Songtrust.com, been a while coming and we are really excited. I want to thank our designer Kevin Gomez, Dan Woodward for implementing it, and our team for working so hard these last few weeks. I also want to give a shout out to the Simple, Mint, Chart.io, Assist.ly, and Shopify teams for design inspiration and Twitter for creating bootstrap which made our lives so much easier.
We went through a lot of iterations with various graphical representations of our product, but when it came down to it - it needed to relate to our clients - the bands(hence the massive band hero). We are still learning how to best explain what Songtrust does, and I’m looking forward to the next few weeks of feedback from clients and the community.
Upload Screen on Lightbox for Android.
I successfully executed the Heimlich Maneuver on Lola this morning
She seemed truly grateful
Lake House sanctuary, by Mark Dziewulski
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I want these airport runway screenprints. [via @fortnighter]
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