We got permission the other day to take an 8 minute audio clip from the internet radio show interview that I did last week and share it with our FamilyLink.com audience. Kory Meyerink of Family Roots Radio and I discussed our new social network for family history. They have an archived version of the interview on their web site.
Last night I was told about a great site for buying cell phones online called letstalk.com. So I checked it out and they do seem to have most phones and most carriers, so a lot more options than you typically see. They offer referral bonuses as well. My friend got a free Blackberry Pearl and loves it.
My favorite collection of entrepreneur lectures is from Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series. I highly recommended downloading these from iTunes or listening to them while you work. You can find scores of incredibly valuable lectures here. One of my favorite's is a recent lecture by Reid Hoffman, founder and Chairman of LinkedIn.com.
The best online collection of interviews with startup entrepreneurs is probably at npost.com. There are 167 so far.
I need to hire an experienced affiliate marketing manager to run the LDSAudio.com program (using Directrack) and to launch one for LDSlibrary.com (probably Directrack also) and to launch and manage a Commission Junction affiliate program for mp3books.com, home of the FranklinCovey audio library, including 7 Habits of Highly
I heard recently that the best-selling non-fiction audio book of all time is Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. (More books by Stephen R. Covey). It is now available for download on mp3books.com--a new source of audio books. If you have never read or listened to this book, you've got to do it. It's a classic.
This past week I've listened to an excellent businessjive.com podcast featuring famous blogger Robert Scoble, who just left Microsoft to join podtech.net. Judd Bagley did a great interview. You learn how Robert's background in journalism has positioned him to be a major player in the blogging and podcasting movements and how his father's relocating to Silicon Valley gave him phenomenal opportunities, even while he was in junior high or high school.
Because I was highly involved in the online content subscription business of Ancestry.com in the late 90s and early 00s, I thought I was pretty smart. When Apple jumped into the music industry with its iPod and iTunes service, I thought they were pretty smart, but I also thought that everyone else ganging up on Apple would cause a big dent in its music business, and that eventually the iPod would go the way of the Mac, and end up with a relatively small market share. I especially thought Steve Jobs was wrong when he said customers wanted to own their own music and not rent it.
Another great announcement from a Utah company today: MediaPort and IBM are teaming up to roll out 1,000 music kiosks in Australia and New Zealand.
Music phones to slice into iPod growth - Yahoo! News
Here's a quote: "King estimates sales of phones equipped with MP3 music players will balloon to 796 million in 2010, accounting for three-quarters of all handsets sold, from 94 million this year."
Amazon to sell branded mp3 players pre-loaded with content?
Now this could be very interesting...a low-cost subscription model for a player with pre-loaded content. That is exactly where I've wanted to go with LDSAudio.com and mp3books.com. If Amazon does it first for the mass market, hopefully it will pave the way for us to do this in smaller, niche markets where we like to play.
