Alles over Freedom Costs A Buck-Oh-Five: Peter Gabriel's We7 Music Download Service, Free With "Grafted" Ads | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Gizmodo | 2007-04-30 18:11:38
Peter Gabriel is a human-rights champion, a global entrepreneur and a technology aficionado, not to mention the owner of lots of prized (and copyrighted) content, so it's not surprising that he's drawn to that cruel mistress, online music downloading. In search of fairness, Gabriel's company We7 has launched an ad-supported free-download model, or, as they themselves put it:
With a passionate team, a breathtaking vision and the 'pat.pending' technology to 'graft' relevant advertising/messages to music and video downloads, we're all set to create a music download revolution.
Jump for details and, oh yes, free samples.I thought graft was for politicians and burn victims, but it also means 10 seconds of sponsorship at the beginning of every DRM-free 128-kilobit MP3, according to The Register. The report added that advertisers would pay We7 what sounds like an unreasonable £0.30 to £0.60 per download (that is, up to $1.20 per song) and that listeners could earn the right to skip the ad after listening to it a few times. How many times, exactly? Three, four or five.
While it's unclear what kind of label support We7 has, the site has posted free samples, including tracks from Coolio, Dave Matthews Band and Hall & Oates, though not, strangely enough, from Mr. Gabriel himself. All songs are tagged with 10-second We7 promos. They're not so bad. In fact they sound like radio station identifications. But let's face it, if advertisers are really going to cover your $1 per song, they will most likely craft 10-second ads that hit you like a sledgehammer. – Wilson Rothman
About We7 [We7 via The Register]
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Alles over Remembering September 11th mash-ups | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Software Headlines :: Index | 2006-09-11 18:24:47
Filed under: Internet, Web services, GoogleThe September 11th 2001 Digital archive hosts a Google Maps mash-up of different views of Ground Zero at 9am on September 11th. People have submitted their digital images of what they saw unfold. Platial, "The People's Atlas," has a Maps mash-up where users have pinned the locations of where they were when they heard the news. Take a minute to remember.If anyone else has an interesting Google maps mash-up or other site commemorating September 11th, please submit it in the comments.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsSource: http://feeds.downloadsquad.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~3/21137227/ Chris Gilmer http://www.softwareheadlines.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/36152
