Announcing the first moco marketplace! Except this one! And probably others! Why SHARE with your friends when you can SELL to your friends? You probably spent too much on their Christmas gifts ANYWAY!
Napster announces "awards" ceremony, confuses "download figures" with "votes."
MTV develops new division/wakes up and hears the ringtone.
Konami Digital Entertainment believes that moco customers might actually like to try before they buy. Okay, I'm sorry, but the fact that this is a REMARKABLE strategy is a huge, huge, HUGE problem. Hobbling the industry's development with all these DRMish restrictions has led it to a place where they have to sell based on what SOUNDS LIKE IT MIGHT BE COOL, not what people KNOW from their own EXPERIENCE is cool. You want to know why mobile content keeps performing below expectations? That's it in a nutshell. Kudos to Konami for their foresight.
Hey, doesn't a set of endangered species ringtones sound like it might be cool?
How about a football-fan ringtone showdown? I'm still holding out for tones for "less filling" and "tastes great."
Cell phone CEO predicts rapid growth of mobile, treated as unbiased authority. *grmbl*
I'm obviously feeling especially grumpy about the corporate world today, so let's end on an upbeat, DIY note. How to make your own ringtones using freeware. I use this same program to podcast, so I can vouch for it. Or for an intermediate solution, check this out.
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