Come for the Ride!

This presentation while harsh and brutal explains social media pretty well. As I’ve said elsewhere, in today’s world of wiki’s, DRMless music and multiple ways for people to have conversations where they want to have them, social media is about engagement, not about control.

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This past weekend I spend the better part of the day at the Mall of Georgia while my wife got her hair highlighted and cut. While waiting in the Master Cuts, I saw something that looks pretty darn familiar advertising for a hair products brand called Tea Tree. Anyone in the social networking realm will find this twit-bit interesting:

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As an avid automobile enthusiast, as well as entrepeneaur, it’s always interesting to find a parallel between my hobbies and my businesses. Such is the case when I got this month’s copy of SportsCar magazine. SportsCar magazine is the official club magazine of the SCCA (Sports Car Club of America). This month, an article by Randy Pobst (a well known professional racer) caught my attention in his column. “Planning Your Races” (as he calls this article) talks all about “reducing” risk over the course of the race in order to finish as well as possible. Consistant high finishes are key when you’re chasing a racing championship. This is very similar to trying to become the market leader in a given market. Making high cost, high risk moves can give you a huge payout, but more often times than not you will “end up next to the other guy in the gravel trap”, as Randy puts it.

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There’s not a lot of “web 2.0″ sites that get me excited. I’m perfectly happy with my “web 1.0″ forums. Facebook is nice for keeping up with friends and Twitter is a pretty novel idea too. However, this is one site that I believe WILL infact have a long and lasting impact on at least one section of our society and that is Pandora and it’s possible effects on the future of the music business.

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I’m not usually a fan of chain mail forwards, but it’s the eve of launch day and my brain is fried. Plus my mother in-law sent this to me.

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