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Cheers for this... Hadn't heard of Soundshelter, great site! Techno thursday it is then.

Think the killer point is making "synch managers" responsible for far fewer songs than traditional publishers. They're effectively treating each song as an artist with its own mana…

This isn't really the case anymore. Can't remember when but he was thoroughly reined in a little while ago. All the shock troll PR about standing seats and paid toilets worked for …

Parklife

Complying with payment card industry (PCI DSS) requirements is an absolutely insane process, even if you're vaguely technically literate. Obviously not saying payment processing is…

Big fan too! They're still around, really popular in Europe at least (Bialetti is probably the best-known brand). Quite hard not to over-extract the coffee, but still my go to when…

Classic agency tactic, pitch two good ideas and eight bad ones... Client gets the illusion of choice and the agency gets creative control.

Also - remember at least one thing from each of those interactions that you can use again. E.g. when you ask Sarah what she's up to on the weekend, remember she said "canoeing" so …

What if people know they're not getting the fastest/biggest/best but pay a premium anyway? It might be a trope but "it just works" is a heck of a value proposition for most people.…

But the initial intent still has to be there. If I sell shampoo noone's gonna see my shampoo PPC ad just because they email a friend to say they've got dry hair. They have to searc…

All true, but as a potential advertiser you don't really get to use all that targeting when placing ads. Although to be fair that's mostly based on my experience with AdWords. On F…

An early Twitter user suggested using hashtags, think he's generally credited with it: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/08/25/groups-for-twitter-or-...

They do this, albeit on a smaller scale, with the Spotify Sessions stuff ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify_Sessions )

We charge per person for a four-hour session (£4), plus the margins on food/booze/retail. Only 8 months in but so far, so good!

I did a BA Music, which was very traditional for the first two years (analysis, criticism, composition) but concluded with some amazing modules and projects in Max/MSP/Jitter/Proce…