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Wired reports:

A new website that aims to transform music-industry economics is set to go live Thursday, giving musicians a major cut of the proceeds while largely freezing out record labels and other intermediaries.

La la, which allows fans to trade music discs for just $1 plus shipping, pledges to g...

More than twice as many vehicle buyers are finding their late-model used car, truck or SUV via the internet than newspaper and magazine classifieds combined...

Some 16 percent of car buyers now find their vehicle via on online classifieds, compared with 7 percent via print classifieds - essentially r...

We have heard of offshoring - Technology services that are being provided from India or China at a significant cost advantage. Now, as this competitive advantage gets to become less and less attractive over the next couple of years, what are the other trends one can spot?

CROWDSOURCING says Wired!...

Kathy Sierra has a very good post on how products and services become mediocre:

• The more successful the product or service is, the stronger the pressure to give in to user requests.The worst thing we can do is give in.
• Not knowing who we should listen to.
• Inability to filter the useful feedback from th...

Read this lovely pieces of great business advice on how to look at yourself and the business you lead.  Follow this, your business & your employees will become customer-centric overnight!

Thanks Brand Autopsy

LESSON 1:Dig deep to identify what you are truly passionate about (hint: it's not always the product itself) and convey that message to employees, customers, and colleagues. When you are passionate, you come across as excited, energetic, and enthusiastic -- all of the qualities people like to see in...

NY Times has an interesting article on why the convergence will take some time to happen:

David G. Sanderson, who heads the media consulting practice at Bain & Company, offers four reasons most people won't be downloading their favorite shows onto their TV's any time soon: limitations in broadban...

Brian Caroll has an interesting post on why CEOs must be involved in lead generation.

CEOs can make a huge difference by focusing on interdepartmental collaboration - especially between sales and marketing - to gain consensus on the following three things:

1. Ideal Customer Profile (company wide – for ea...

Here's a great interview with Walt Disney conducted by NBC in 1966. It has some lovely anecdotes, quotes and thoughts.

• "As long as there is imagination left in the world, Disneyland will never be complete."
• From the very start it was a problem of getting the money to open Disneyland. About ...