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Speaking of Natal, it should be out next year

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“I’m not planning on being any more specific today,” he said.

In addition to the comments from THQ, Electronic Arts also indicated on its earnings call that it plans to support Natal.

After taking Natal for a test drive, CNET News' Ina Fried wants to know when the rubber will meet the road. One game maker suggests the answer is late next year.

In an interview with me, also from last week, entertainment unit President Robbie Bach declined to offer any more details on Natal timing.

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Microsoft has also said it has plans for Natal that stretch well beyond just gaming or theXbox. Chairman Bill Gates told CNET that it is a technology he sees moving onto Windows, while Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie has shown some of the same gesture, voice, and facial recognition technologies as being key parts of the office of the future.

Now that I have gotten a chance to try out Project Natal, Microsoft’s gesture recognition technology, I have the same question as everyone else. When is it going to be on the market?

“We have for example, Natal from Microsoft, a platform addition coming late next year,” THQ chief Brian Farrell said on last week’s conference call.

While Microsoft isn’t saying, one game maker has spilled the beans. In its recent earnings conference call, game maker THQ said to expect it late next year.

Character accents are one of the most treacherous treks actors must traverse, as previously alluded to above in the discussion of ROOMS, and it is to the credit of the cast of FINIAN’S RAINBOW that they pull off the Irish brogue so well, rarely over-doing it as is so commonplace in community theatre productions of the show. “Introduction To Necessity” is another fine example of the expert mixing and mastering of the choral work on this album, and though there is a slight echo here and elsewhere it seems as if that is entirely intentional and meant to bring to mind the classic Godard Lieberson-produced albums of the Golden Age. “Necessity” seems slightly old-fashioned and quaint when compared to blues songs and scatting in the scores of today, but given the time-frame in which the show was written it shows how boundary-pushing Lane was trying to be with this score. Lane, by way of this wonderful revival cast, ends the act on a rollicking and raucous note with “That Great ‘Come-and-Get-It’ Day”. But these marvelous moments are merely half the hues of this remarkable RAINBOW.

SOUND OFF! ROOMS Rocks, RAINBOW is Resplendent

Starting with a sparkling “Overture,” and the hanky-panky of the harmonica beginning the first vocal track, this cast recording does just about everything just right. The syncopation and sibilance of every single syllable surround us as “This Time of the Year” gets going, and it is rare to hear a chorus this well-mixed and marvelous, whether on a cast album or in the theatre itself. Kate Baldwin is an instant-win with her establishing number, one of the most famous and well-worn songs in all of musical theatre, “How Are Things In Glocca Morra?” Following up that gem is the nearly equally famous and well-known “Look To The Rainbow” and the results are winsome and winning. We are treated to a complete recording of the dance break, as well, and the overall comprehensiveness of this recording is one of many myriad reasons why this album is so momentous and instantly memorable. Cheyenne Jackson, currently on NBC’S 30 ROCK but having established himself as one of the foremost male performers of the 21st century musical theatre, is immediately likeable with the most famous song in a score full of fabulous, famous standards, “Old Devil Moon”. The subtle phrasing and slight homage to a 1940s Broadway delivery were certainly not lost on this attentive listener. The chemistry between Jackson and Baldwin is tangible, even on record, and one hopes to see them pair-up again in the near future, hopefully on a duets album like Jackson’s current collaboration with standards master Michael Feinstein, THE POWER OF TWO. “Something Sort of Grandish” is one of the best examples of Harburg’s wicked and wonderful way with words, and the reprise is equally winning and even more riotously hilarious. In “If This Isn’t Love” Jackson pays homage to the vocal inflections of John Raitt and the results are resplendent, with the chorus members providing expert assistance, both comically and vocally. Even the kiss sound effect is perfect.

Time-Life also provide us with a fun, if frivolous, bonus track called “Click”, and it is quite clear why it was cut, but it is, indeed, just a little bit more of a very good thing. The recording is also so successful in large part due to the sterling work done by producer Rob Sher, whose contributions cannot be overestimated. Speaking of good, Goodman had the misfortune of premiering (and, at that point, performing in) BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY around the same time as Jonathan Larson’s RENT and was subsequently overshadowed by that work and its author. Similarly, ROOMS ended up off-Broadway in the same season as NEXT TO NORMAL. With the immeasurable loss of Larson, Goodman proves with BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY and, now, ROOMS, that he is the current master of the rock musical. Then again, I am one of those who feel BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY is just as good as RENT, and now if forced to compare would prefer ROOMS to NEXT TO NORMAL - BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY is certainly more inventive and more innovative in its style, structure and the substance of the characters than RENT, while comparisons between ROOMS and NEXT TO NORMAL are less useful. ROOMS rocks and Goodman is the rock n roll king of musical theatre - on Broadway or off as he proves with this score that certainly had me, to use a discarded phrase from NEXT TO NORMAL, feeling electric.

“The Diabolical” represents the point at which the central relationship begins to show signs of dissolution and the depravedness and decadence of the rock stars starts to show its effects on their romance. “Little Bit of Love” is conversational, but pulsating and painfully punishing, and ultimately a pretty perfect performance of a dramatic moment that is, pardon the pun, pregnant with the dramatic and emotional themes that have amassed by this point in the drama. The counterpoint and hushed conversation that the song ends with is ravishing. “Fear of Flying”, which is reminiscent of “Odeon” in BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY, is a propulsive patter song with particularly effective sound effects, though subtlety is certainly nowhere present here, whether in Kreeger‘s performance or the album’s production. Nor should it be. “Happiness” is heartbreaking and brings to mind the material meant for the mother character in BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY, as well as that show’s “Kindness” so memorably recorded by Sherie Rene Scott on the Sh-K-Boom concept album. “When I’m not with him I’m drowning,” perfectly illustrates the female side of this relationship and exhibits Goodman’s deftness with a common phrase meaning so much more in the context of the drama, particularly since the lyrics are so often focused on alcoholism and liquid allusions - and for good reason. “Clean” is my favorite track on the album and the jaunty riff upon which the melody is based is winning - “The rhythm of the alcohol, keeps kickin’,” indeed. Few composers have musicalized the demons of addiction more expertly or evocatively than Goodman both here and in BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY, which is largely concerned with cocaine addiction. The reprises of “Rooms” and “Steps” are very sad and somber, totally appropriate given the subject matter. “My Choice” could have been insufferably maudlin and sentimental, but due both to the performers and the production it is not, and, in the end, actually brings to mind the best of Sondheim in its style and tender yet tenacious turn-of-phrase. “My choice. Done./ We have a son.” is about as simply elegant as you can get in musical theatre. “Each minor chord, a major test” is another excellent lyric in this equally tear-filled and tender, and tough, song. “A New Song For Scotland” is as patriotic as we are led to expect given the title, and given what has just occurred in the drama leading up to it, is a breath of fresh, clean air. And so is this score, evident, of course, in the “Finale” - and everywhere else.

Paul Scott Goodman, along with bookwriter Miriam Gordon, has created another rock score worthy of respect and reverence with his work for the semi-autobiographical ROOMS: A Rock Romance, this coming more than ten years after his last effort, the arresting and alarmingly inventive BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY which was based on the classic 80s second-person stream-of-conciousness novel by Jay McInerney. While ROOMS lacks the dramatic weight and engaging, esoteric storytelling style of BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY, it makes up for it in the enthusiasm and energy exhibited by the excellent leads, Leslie Kritzer and Doug Kreeger. The Scottish brogue explicitly evocative of the composer/lyricist himself (and his then girlfriend, upon whom the Kritzer role is based) is brought off with adept aplomb by the leads. Kreeger and Kritzer are both positively wonderful. Track-by-track, and hit-by-hit, the score traverses musical styles as varied and various as one would come to expect from Goodman, who always keeps one foot firmly planted in world of rock. Where the other foot may fall is anyone’s guess.

The album begins with two themes that are reprised repeatedly, each time with more layers of lust, love and lyricism, both on the part of the characters and the actual composer himself. “Rooms” and “Steps” are arresting recurring themes that bring to mind the elusive elegance and eeriness of “Coma Baby” from BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY, starting off the memory play in a memorable manner. As the reprises pile on, one is immediately struck by the subtle strength of Goodman in making the seemingly innocuous, such as a simple set of stairs, so interesting and involving. “Bring the Future Faster” rocks hard and Kritzer navigates the high-belting with assuredness and the result is really quite riveting. “Friday Night Dress”, with its Biblical allusions, showcases the strength of the simultaneous storytelling in an entertaining and inventive fashion. By its title alone, “Scottish Jewish Princess” purports to be funnier than it turns out to actually be, but the beginning Bossa Nova beat, which creeps into a few numbers, compounded by the intricate vocal line and patter song sibilance ultimately proves successful. The rhyme of “Uncle Georgy” and “orgy” is certainly an unexpected and funny rhyme and, in the end, the song serves a similar function to “I Hate The French” in BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY. “I Love You For All Time” at first brings to mind Sting & The Police and given the 80s time-setting of the piece, it is totally appropriate to the period. As the song builds, we become increasingly floored by the fierce and furious electricity ignited by Kritzer and Kreeger’s performances. It is at this point that I came to the conclusion that even if the material were weaker, the leads would raise it up a few levels through sheer will. “Let’s Go To London” contains some high-belting on the order of “A New Argentina” from EVITA and Kritzer’s favorable comparisons to Patti LuPone, having played LuPone herself in a tribute show off-Broadway a few seasons ago, are justly justified. “All I Want Is Everything” is Goodman’s expert musical evocation of everything 80s, and it is, in the words of Wayne & Garth from WAYNE’S WORLD, excellent, totally. “Let’s Leave London” left me a little bit cold and, given that it is the turning point of the story, one wishes for a bit more from the lyrics than “two punks in love”, but every song can’t be a knock-out, I suppose. “NYC Forever!” contains the weakest lyrics of all and it is at this point that the ground upon which this score stands starts getting shaky, but it soon gets back on track with the next half of the show. That being said, the theme for “Pour more booze” in “NYC Forever!” hasn’t left my head since I first heard the album, so, if nothing else, this track is catchy, though some re-writes are in definitely in order.

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The Windows operating system also faces competition from alternative platforms and new devices that may reduce consumer demand for traditional PCs. Competitors such as Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Opera Software Company offer software that competes with the Internet Explorer Web browsing capabilities of Windows products. User and usage volumes on mobile devices are increasing around the world relative to the PC. OEMs have been working to make the Google Android mobile operating system more compatible with small form-factor PCs or netbooks.

One should assume that Microsoft exaggerates the impact of competition in order to stave off further antitrust inquiries, but it’s telling that it calls out so much open-source competition for its broad product portfolio.

Competitors to theMicrosoft Office system include many software application vendors such as Adobe, Apple, Corel, Google, IBM, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, Zoho, and local application developers in Asia and Europe….The OpenOffice.org project provides a freely downloadable cross-platform application that also has been adapted by various commercial software vendors to sell under their brands, including IBM, Novell, Red Hat, and Sun Microsystems.

But given that Microsoft opts to call out the fact that “Certain ‘open source’ software business models challenge our license-based software model” and that “To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, our sales, revenue, and operating margins may decline,” it seems that Microsoft is preoccupied with open source as a threat, rather than as an opportunity. That’s unfortunate.

Our Web application platform software competes with open source software such as Apache, Linux, MySQL, and PHP, and we compete against Java middleware such as Geronimo, JBoss, and Spring Framework.

Client faces strong competition from well-established companies with differing approaches to the PC market. Competing commercial software products, including variants of Unix, are supplied by competitors such as Apple, Canonical, and Red Hat. Apple takes an integrated approach to the PC experience and has made inroads in share, particularly in the U.S. and in the consumer segment. The Linux operating system, which is also derived from Unix and is available without payment under a General Public License, has gained some acceptance, especially in emerging markets, as competitive pressures lead OEMs to reduce costs and new, lower-price PC form-factors gain adoption. Partners such as Hewlett-Packard and Intel have been actively working with alternative Linux-based operating systems.

Of course, open source is also increasingly a tool used by Microsoft to distribute and develop software. Microsoft must choose whether to be a friend or foe to open source, especially as it seeks to build its next billion-dollar businesses.

SpringSource, Canonical, and MySQL join Red Hat on Microsoft's hit list

Even more interesting to me, however, is Microsoft’s acknowledgment of its increasing competition with Red Hat, Canonical (Ubuntu), and other open-source companies given the different business models these companies use to undermine Microsoft. Yes, Red Hat has made Microsoft’s hit list for years, and it has also called out open source as a threat, but there’s a far greater variety of open-source threats for it to worry about now.

Our server operating system products face intense competition from a wide variety of server operating systems and server applications, offered by companies with a variety of market approaches….Nearly all computer manufacturers offer server hardware for the Linux operating system and many contribute to Linux operating system development. The competitive position of Linux has also benefited from the large number of compatible applications now produced by many leading commercial and non-commercial software developers. A number of companies supply versions of Linux, including Novell and Red Hat….

For years, Microsoft had it easy. The two busiest groups within the software behemoth were the accountants, adding up all the billions in profits, and the CD/DVD burning team, which simply had to burn more copies of Windows and Office to keep up with demand.

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay.

Today, life is a little less rosy for Microsoft, as it calls out in its recent 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As TechFlash highlights,Google Android is now called out by Microsoft as a competitor, as are Apple, Opera, and Google in browsers, whereas only Mozilla was deemed worthy of Microsoft’s competitive glare in 2008.

Accordingly, Microsoft’s annual report for its fiscal year 2009 reads like open-source Whac-A-Mole. Microsoft highlights its ‘desktop’ competitors… …and even office productivity application competitors: …and server competitors… Comments (0) Kfrc Spam offers to let people use their PC to att Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 2:52 pm The e-mail then provides a link to a Web site where visitors are offered money for installing the supposed denial-of-service (DoS) software, according to a blog posting on the site of e-mail security provider Proofpoint. Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor.

It’s not clear whether the software does turn the computer into a DoS attacking zombie, or what it does, if anything. But it would be crazy to expose your computer like that, regardless of your political leanings.

The spam site also tells visitors to come back and get updated versions of the purported denial of service software if their antivirus program is detecting it as malware and disabling it.

The e-mail message says: “If You dont like Obama come here, you can help to ddos his site with your installs.” New spam is circulating that supposedly offers a way for people to use their computers to launch a denial-of-service attack on the Web site of President Obama, researchers said on Tuesday. Spam offers to let people use their PC to attack Obama site

Spammers are hoping to rouse Obama critics to launch a cyber protest and to download malware onto their PCs in the process. Comments (0) jyyy Sony unveils new high-end Reader Daily Editio Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 2:51 pm The built-in wireless access of the Daily Edition, meanwhile, brings Sony onto a features parity with the Kindle. But even with the touch screen (which the Kindle doesn’t have), the extra $100 versus the Kindle’s current $299 pricetag might be a hard sell to recession-addled shoppers. Sony used the launch event at the New York Public Library to highlight some notable new features of its e-book platform. Most notable is the expansion of support for library loans to the Sony Readers. If your local library supports electronic lending, members will be able to download the borrowed books and transfer them to the Reader for 21 days (after which the files expire). Sony is partnering with Overdrive.com to make it easier to search for available books at participating libraries. (Credit:Sony) Sony also highlighted its new “open” Epub format, which the company is moving to from its former proprietary BBeB format. While the Epub books at Sony’s store will still be encoded with DRM, it will allow the Sony Reader to also work with files purchased from BooksOnBoard, NetGalley, Powells.com, and any other retailer that adopts the Adobe-backed standard. (Notably, that does not include Amazon (which has its own proprietary Kindle standard) nor Barnes & Noble (which is working on its own Epub flavor for its forthcoming Plastic Logic reader). The trio of Sony Reader products reinforces the fact that Sony is not ceding the market to Amazon. Indeed, the company is offering some nice alternatives: a wallet-friendly $200 price point on the entry-level unit and wider file compatibility. Even more enticing to many will be the wealth of free content not available on the Kindle: the Sony Readers can access the hundreds of thousands of public domain Google Books, plus the free library loaners. The library loans are compelling, to be sure, but Epub collections are not comprehensive. On the New York Public Library site, we found notable titles such as Twilight and Freakonomics, but not a lot of other top 10 selections. On Sale Now: $174.67 - $199.99 View the latest prices for Sony Reader Pocket Edition PRS-300 (silver) We’ll have full hands-on reviews of the Pocket Edition and Touch Edition Readers as soon as they arrive at the office (should be in the next week or two). In the meantime: what do you think? Do these new products and features add up to a Kindle killer? Is $199 still too expensive for an e-book reader? Or are you still waiting for better screens and cheaper titles? Share your thoughts below. The Reader Daily Edition joins the already announced Touch Edition PRS-600 ($299) and Pocket Edition PRS-300 ($199), both of which should be available within the next couple of weeks. With the exception of the wireless connection and larger screen, the specs of the Reader Daily Edition are otherwise in line with that of the Touch Edition: it offers an E Ink Vizplex electronic paper screen with 16 shades of gray. The following products mentioned are available. On Sale Now: $268.00 - $299.99 View the latest prices for Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600BC (black) On Sale Now: $399.99 View the latest prices for Sony Reader Daily Edition PRS-900BC Sony on Tuesday announced its first e-book reader with built-in wireless capability. The new Reader Daily Edition offers an integrated 3G wireless connection, allowing it to access Sony’s online bookstore as well as yet-to-be-announced newspaper and magazine subscriptions. The unit–which boasts a 7-inch touch screen (displayable in portrait or landscape mode)–will sell for $399 when it debuts in December. Wireless service is provided by AT&T with no direct charge to the customer. Sony unveils new high-end Reader Daily Edition, expanded library partnership

The Sony Reader Daily Edition is coming in December. John P. Falcone covers home theater and network entertainment products. He’s been writing for CNET since 2002. Also of note is the launch of version 3.0 of Sony’s eBook Library software, which now offers support for Macs (as well as Windows). The software is used to move purchased files (as well as other supported content, such as a PDF and Epub files) from the computer to the Reader. (While supported, the PC step won’t be required for the Reader Daily Edition, which can access online content directly.) Comments (0) Oekf SpiralFrog’s turmoil, in missives_553 Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 2:50 pm Thank you 2.Our entire financial model is based on a steady state mid teens pages turned per visit out in the future. While we are managing our uniques per month number pretty well, we are currently running at 2.6-2.9 pages per visit (public info as per alexa) instead of our presentation predicting 6-7 in July to Dec phase, with correspondingly low time spent on site. Therefore our available impressions are running at 40-50% of the model we are showing to investors. Just as we seem to be targeting uniques, we need to manage the pages per visit as well otherwise it will call into question the entire financial model. If we keep growing uniques per month but pages per visit lags, guess what - impressions served will be well below model projections. To put it bluntly, while we are 15x our Oct 07 uniques, we are just 2.5x Oct 07 impressions served. If I were looking at the company afresh, I would not buy the improvement in uniques quality assumption in our model without assuming a fall in uniques. Its just not possible! The NFL promo seems to have a set a new record for our user acquisition costs - $491 per registered user. Paid search looks rather attractive in that light…. It should be noted that the e-mail exchanges were originally forwarded to multiple people, and copies were subsequently forwarded to CNET from multiple sources. E-mail addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information were removed. Grammar was not corrected. The e-mails were placed in chronological order to make them easier to read. Let’s even use an average of 15 cents per paid search click. And a generous conversion rate of 10% to become registered users. And blindly assume all registered users end up becoming permanent members. Each such user would cost us hence $1.50. At 14 pages/visit we’d earn 7 cents per visit in ad revenue (2 ads per page, $5 CPM average, 50% of ad inventory sold). Next, we’ll need to adjust this to subtract 66% royalties due to music owners - leaving us 2.38 cents per visit. It would therefore take 63 visits from each such user for us to break even. At an average 2 visits per month, we’d need each user to become an active SpiralFrog member for over 5 years to make this work financially. Our present stats show that a registered user stays active an average of less than 2 months. From a tactical perspective, last Thursday, July 10th, the company achieved its highest daily uniques at 295,228, and we are pacing at 7,615,277. Our current spend is the same as last month, thus we are proportionately gaining traffic virally. I plan to decrease our spend towards the latter part of the month, which will result in approximately 7.1 million monthly uniques. Concurrent to this, I will start migrating to our Phase II quality traffic programs. And amir, could you tell us exactly what you and your friends concerns are and what info you need from mel. Many people have put in an extraordinary effort to get where we are and this is far from a house of cards.Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T Editors’ note: The e-mail exchange below occurred last fall between Vesa Suomalainen, SpiralFrog’s chief technology officer, Joe Mohen, the company’s founder, and Matthew Stern, vice president of marketing. Others who received the e-mail were a combination of managers from SpiralFrog and 3V Capital Management, the start-up’s main financial backer. I believe we have established that we end up losing money even if the users acquired through paid search keep returning to the site. And our main problem in getting these 1M tracks online quicker? Finding a soul in this company who’s able and willing to pay for the $2,000 that it cost us to buy the hard drives required to ship the content from Seattle to our production data center in Ashburn. I find it somewhat ironic to be discussing spending priorities of several millions and a few thousands in the same email, but here you go. We’ve been spending up to $600K on paid search per month over the last several months. For the most recent month that I have detailed numbers (June), we paid roughly $530,000 for 2.65 million.adword clicks, resulting in just over 140,000 user registrations. Each click cost us approximately 20 cents, and the regitration rate from paid search was roughly 5.4%. 7.If google adwords leads to more registrations, these people will probably come back and hence we should look at cost per pages visited by unique per program not just cost per unique. If we did that chances are the 28 cent to 8 cent comparison will look a lot closer. Furthermore don’t we think search engine optimization is a better tool to drive people who are actually looking for music than affiliate marketing? I also believe we must do away with the email requirement. We can let the user choose a user name/password and let him decide if he wants to give us his email/tel no for email/text updates etc. That will be a lot more acceptable in the age group we are trying to serve. I remember arguing about this back in Dec with Roger Munford and I still don’t think people like to give out email addresses for fear of phishing etc. If we are competing with pirate sites, we must understand the behaviour of our target audience. From: Amir Khan Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 2:19 AM To: Scott Stagg; Mel Schrieberg; Hughes, Al; Gordon, Bob; Preston, Frances; Gold, Jerry; Joe Mohen; Levin, Jordan; Hutchens, Mark; Strama, Mark; Norcia, Steve; Mackell, Thomas J. Cc: Orville Hagler Subject: RE: Traffic Analysis Thirdly, the key business variables are how often users come back to our site. We need more data points on this. I think it might make sense for you to go through all the FEEDBACK emails (starting with right after EMI was added), to see what people are telling us about our site, what they like about it, what they do not. You did a good job of this late last year, and it would be interesting to see what they are saying now. 4.The investor presentation calls for a 2008 marketing spend of 7.9mm. If last month our total spending was 1.1 or 1.2mm, and we add to that what we spent in the other months so far, we will probably have just 3-4mm left for the rest of the year or 500k-670k per month (and we must include all sorts of marketing in this calc). If we require 1.1-1.2mm to get us from 5mm to 6mm, how come we will require lesser to keep increasing uniques? From: Joe Mohen To: Vesa Suomalainen; Matthew Stern Cc: Amir Khan; Peter Desloge; Michael Puccini; James Campbell; Jesse Paynter Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 8:54 AM Subject: RE: business case for paid search? I’m afraid you’re missing my main point. We must adjust our user aquisition costs and methods to fit our own revenue model for it to make sense. We’ve now proven that any amount spent on paid search or other cost-per-click advertising is guaranteed to lose us money. The oher point is that the amount spent on marketing in a given month should be a sensible proportion of our own ad revenue - not a multiple of it. —– Original Message —– From: Scott Stagg Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 11:54 PM To: Mel Schrieberg; Amir Khan; Hughes, Al; Gordon, Bob; Preston, Frances; Gold, Jerry; Joe Mohen; Levin, Jordan; Hutchens, Mark; Strama, Mark; Scott Stagg; Norcia, Steve; Mackell, Thomas J. Cc: Orville Hagler Subject: Re: Traffic Analysis From: Vesa Suomalainen Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:48 AM To: Joe Mohen; Matthew Stern Cc: Amir Khan; Peter Desloge; Michael Puccini; James Campbell; Jesse Paynter Subject: Re: business case for paid search? —– Original Message —– 9.Our first priority has to be content acquisition, at the expense of every single thing including sales, uniques, salaries etc. I also believe we should line up a buyer who would buy us provided we got Sony BMG and WMG. With capital markets being the way they are, we can not rely on the assumption that a 20mm round is definitely going to happen. In my mind, its very hard to justify new hires, more marketing spend as time goes by especially with the markets being the way they are. 8.Whatever happened to alliances with mp3 player manufacturers, cellphone companies, and generally anybody who would benefit by pushing us? Should we not have banners on their sites or make Samsung mention “compatible with spiralfrog.com”? Having said all that, its not too late to rectify our message to investors to reflect what we have been doing. Our model needs to be more believable and yet we need to show a better sales pipeline. A 2.4mm pipeline is just not acceptable after having hired so many people in sales lately. Its possible that a strategic out of the 20 possible strategics will value our uniques differently but we cant believe that. We must be able to convince more people - I hv heard too many comments about potential investors peeling back the layers and not being impressed with uniques quality. Next week, we hope to add the IODA catalog to our live site - this is 1,081,028 additional tracks, bringing us close to the 3M track marker. And this aggregator catalog is multiple times more relevant than the similar-sized Orchard label which is mostly unknown European music. Do we have a marketing program ready to go when this catalog goes live? I have not seen this written down anywhere, so I thought I’d take the initiative so we can allagree on the numbers before making a decision whether it makes sense to continue spending money on paid search on Google, Yahoo and MSN adwords. Please feel free to correct if I got any of this wrong. It might also be useful to read the SpiralFrog blogposts, to see what real users are writing. 1.We are embarking on a massive capital raise. The investors we are and will be encountering for this round will be more sophisticated and we are having a hard time convincing people of the valuation of the company even after signing 2 majors and all the independents. If we are discussing raising money using the same instrument as our round last may, then clearly something is wrong. For a while, I guess we all were sold off on the “mometum theory”. The belief was that if we demonstrated solid user growth and increased # of uniques, it would open more doors for us at advertisers and music labels and amongst the press and music industry. The cost did not matter since the exposure would be temporary and we would switch from paid to organic growth in a matter of months if not weeks. The obvious concern is what would happen to our traffic and ad sales if we stop paying for adwords? For one, our unique visitor numbers would drop by the corresponding number. However, since nearly 95% of paid search clicks end up in just one or two pageviews, our average pageview count would go up dramatically - and the # of total pageviews would drop but not by the same ratio as unique visitors. There’s clearly a cost to this, but it’s very difficult to argue that the downside is worth the guarantee of losing money on every dollar spent. We can therefore conclude that paid search and cost-per-click advertising is permanenty incompattible with our business model. Even with the generous assumptions made above, there’s no way to make the numbers work in our favor. —– Original Message —– 5.If we keep buying traffic and we do ramp uniques to 10mm, we will have an even harder time bring up pages per visit from under 3 to plan, as compared to doing it now. We must improve the quality now, and stabilize traffic rather than aim for 7mm+. We can not become uniques addicts at the expense of quality. We got it above 5mm, let’s just manage it within a range, all the while replacing affiliate programs for better programs. Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:38 AM To: Jesse Paynter; Matthew Stern Cc: Joe Mohen; Amir Khan; Michael Puccini; James Campbell Subject: business case for paid search? There seems to have been universal agreement that our affiliate marketing program (Platform A) was not appropriate for our site given the high cost and the low conversion ratio - but I’d suggest the paid search is not much different. It will be difficult to defend this amount of sustained marketing spending to a new incoming investor who’s going to scrutinize our business model and numbers carefully before making an informed investment decision. There are other, more inexpensive methods to drive traffic that we should pursue - e.g. traffic sharing programs with other sites or lower-cost pad clicks with music discovery sites. Paid search has an obvious cost incompatibility with our pennies-per-visit banner-ad-based business model. First, is our ad sales are in their infancy. It is too soon to judge marketing costs relative to them. From: Vesa Suomalainen To: Matthew Stern Cc: Amir Khan; Peter Desloge; Michael Puccini; James Campbell; Joe Mohen; Jesse Paynter Sent: Thu Sep 25 18:21:50 2008 Subject: Re: business case for paid search? I think it is more complex. While I more or less agree with your points, there are more variables. NOTE: The improvements are from finding alternative and less expensive banner programs that also deliver better metrics versus Platform A’s incentivized traffic. Also, I do not include the NFL costs in September - the $200,000 spend netted 8,175 clicks and 407 registrations. The other statistic that ought to dramatize the paid search cost number is this: 12 months after the launch of the site, where one would expect numbers to have stabilizedfrom the early peak in marketing spend and the initial delay in sales revenue, we’re still spending upwards of 300% of our revenue in marketing costs (I don’t have the latest sales figures so I could be off here a bit) - whereas e.g. Napster which was losing money every quarter due to their high marketing spending was using about 25% of their revenue to drive traffic. It would be helpful if someone could send a note indicating our ad sales per month and % of ad inventory sold each month. For too long, we’ve lived in an environment where some of this data was kept secret, disallowing us to make rational decisions elsewhere. I’ve heard that one of the main arguments in favor of continuing with paid search is our ability to earn ad impressions already sold - but if you believe in this logic, it’s akin to spening more money so we could keep losing even more. Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:53:05 -0700 To: Hughes, Al; Amir Khan; Gordon, Bob; Preston, Frances; Gold, Jerry; Joe Mohen; Levin, Jordan; Hutchens, Mark; Strama, Mark; Stagg, Scott; Norcia, Steve; Mackell, Thomas Mackell. CC: Orville Hagler Subject: Traffic Analysis From: Matthew Stern To: Vesa Suomalainen; Jesse Paynter Cc: Joe Mohen; Amir Khan; Michael Puccini; James Campbell Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 2:31 PM Subject: RE: business case for paid search? —– Original Message —– Secondly, it is true that you need a certain amount of “uniques” to get the attention of customers and key industry players. If our uniques fall below a certain level, potential customers will not take our meetings, and partners will not take us seriously; even Viacom might walk away. You will not get into meetings. While most of what Mel did was insane, there is some truth to this point. I started arguing in late spring that this is, if not outrigth cheating, at least self-deception. We were claiming super unique user growth while we knew we were just getting users to bounce off our site. Our approach was not far from hiring internet users in India to click on our home page to get the uniques # to continue growing. Anyone who’d ask us direct questions about average # of time spent on site or average # of pageviews, or retention of registered users would immediately find out our little secret. And these figures stay permanently in our books for incoming investors to look at and ask us after-the-fact. How do we explain spending $1.5M in marketing in the month of June when our resulting revenue was $69,711? An ooops? Editors’ note: In the first exchange, the recipients were members of SpiralFrog’s board. Orville Hagler, a SpiralFrog employee, was CC’d. Finally, to bring this full circle, there have been fruitful discussions with like-music sites to swap traffic and share revenue…stay tuned. My concerns stem from the following: From: Vesa Suomalainen From: Mel Schrieberg From: Vesa Suomalainen To: Joe Mohen; Matthew Stern Cc: Amir Khan; Peter Desloge; Michael Puccini; James Campbell; Jesse Paynter Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:02 AM Subject: Re: business case for paid search? —– Original Message —– Mel & Scott, Amir While u r correct with the NFL digitally there were also approx 6 TV spots that went with it, and that mitigates this, although we can’t say how much The reason we have compared ourselves to Facebook is strictly one of gross traffic and I strongly believe if we were to make ourselves more of a social network site our traffic would be larger but it would defeat our economic model It is therefore difficult to arguevia a business case to continue funding paid search. The per-click rate is simply too high for an ad-supported business. Paid search ads are primarily designed for businesses that sell goods for relatively high prices - using paid search as a method to drive traffic for an ad-supported site would be difficult to support even if the conversion rate (from click to registration) would be 100%. —– Original Message —– From: Mel Schrieberg Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:15:52 -0700 To: Amir Khan; Hughes, Al; Gordon, Bob; Preston, Frances; Gold, Jerry; Joe Mohen; Levin, Jordan; Hutchens, Mark; Strama, Mark; Stagg, Scott; Norcia, Steve; Mackell, Thomas J. CC: Orville Hagler Subject: Traffic Analysis Greg Sandoval covers media and digital entertainment for CNET News. He is a former reporter for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. E-mail Greg, or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sandoCNET. The only caveat I would throw in here is that paid search would make sense if the acquired users were to return to the site more often. Put another way, if our 2.4MM registered users came back twice a week, then we might view this differently. AK Mel, could you please try to find out how many pages visitors average on facebook to potentially answer amirs friends concerns. This means it is costing usabout $3.70 per registered user obtained through paid search. At an average 6.5 pageviews per visit (latest month stats from Google Analytics), we’re earning roughly 3.25 cents per user visit in ad revenue (assumptions: 2 ads per page, average $5 CPM, 50% of ad inventory sold each month). It would take 114 visits per user to earn back the money spent on paid search to break even. And that’s assuming we’d keep 100% of the revenue - not figuring the 66% royalty due to the music content owners. According to a spreadsheet by our SEM vendor Bluemark, we’ve paid for 15.6M adword clicks across Google, Yahoo and MSN since February 2008 at an average price per click of just under 20 cents. This amounts to a total of $3.12M. This number is astounding - and does not include the other marketing programs (Platform A, Alicia Keys, NFL etc. etc.). The first chain focuses on Amir Khan, one of SpiralFrog’s financial backers, and his skepticism about SpiralFrog’s marketing strategy in the summer of 2008. The second thread is a debate between Vesa Suomalainen, SpiralFrog’s former chief technology officer, and Joe Mohen, the company’s founder and chairman that occurred last fall. The other obvious consideration is our present funding situation. When we’re having trouble paying emlployee salaries and basic expenses, it is the wrong priority to spend money on marketing programs that can at best be called loss-leaders. In my view, we should hunker down for a while and get our content catalog and site features enhanced, build no-cost traffic sharing partnerships, establish a strategic alliance or two, get more funding and then relaunch. I agree with mel and disagree with amir. We all are in agreement that our first objective was to grow uniques which we have done and there is clearly some disagreement about what our next step is, whether to continue growing uniques which the advitisers seem to want, or slow the unique growth and increase quality. To me, it is all about impressions and if the choice is to get there with more uniques and less pages turned vs less uniques and more pages turned, with both equaling the same amount of impressions, then I would choose the higher uniques. The board committee on traffic analysis that includes Scott Stagg, Amir Kahn, Jerry Gold, Steve Norcia and me, met on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 9th. It was a very productive meeting given the complexity of the topic. As a result of our discussion, the consensus was that we serve two constituencies, that being strategic alliances and the advertising community, and our hypothesis is that these two entities have different criteria on how they view the company. To gain further insight with respect to strategic alliances, we developed a series of questions that I will pose to Jimmy Barge to better clarify Viacom’s position. At this point, we believe that we need to grow our monthly uniques while migrating to quality visits. I do not think our traffic is a house of cards - our phase one approach was to build traffic as quickly as we could, so that we could attract strategic partners and tier one advertisers and then migrate this traffic which we have stated to do, to enhanced quality programs. There are many sites Rhapsody being one that spends considerably more money on traffic enhanced programs and don’t come close to our results. To expand upon this I have spent a considerable amount of time with AOL and Advertising .com executives, (recently a two day meeting in Baltimore with 14 of their executives in attendance) many of which have spent ten years on growing website traffic and they have not seen a site grow so fast. - the key to this is we have been able to converge the discovery and acquisition of music on our site - our pre -qualitative market research determined that this would be critical to our success. Yes, I would like to see greater stickiness to the site but please remember that up until now we have had only one music major. We have conducted three post launch focus groups and the main reason they have not come back to our site was not having a greater selection of music - this is now changing with the ingestion of EMI. From: Joe Mohen To: Vesa Suomalainen; Matthew Stern Cc: Amir Khan; Peter Desloge; Michael Puccini; James Campbell; Jesse Paynter Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 6:32 PM Subject: Re: business case for paid search? Amir, I would be happy to met with your friends again and clear up any miscommunications, I found them to be very bright and articulate and we might have not made ourselves clear on our business model; Your point is well taken on better site metrics, we are working on improving this area but as I stated at out committee meeting we can only determine the number of clicks for each of our programs (receive these from the vendors - Google, Yahoo, MSN, Advertising ,com etc.) but we cannot measure these as accurately as would like to with respect to the method Nielsen measure uniques - would take additional funding to outsource this capability —– Original Message —– To your point we do know what our page views and refresh rates are but you are right we do not know how they compare to Facebook etc, - we are not comparing ourselves to social network sites in that they are not the model we are following - our site does not have any objectable content and therefore we are able to attract the Tier I advertisers where your social network sites can only obtain a CPM of $1;50 and we have averaged $14-16 and recently have an ad campaign with AT&T - their “blue room promotion” where we obtained a $26.00 CPM. —– Original Message —– 3.The people we seem to be attracting to our site from the affiliate marketing programs are NOT interested in music. Hence the low registration rate, pages per visit, time on our site, high bounce rate. I refuse to believe that people in the advertising world and the potential acquirers will not see this as buying traffic. I remember Jerry on the conf call could not digest that either. When my friend, Jassi, who recently sold his company at a nice price, and understands this space stayed focused on the quality of the uniques and we did not answer his question directly, I got more concerned. If we are going to compare ourselves to facebook, youtube in terms of total traffic, we must expect questions regarding the quality of traffic as well. Anecdotally, Saurabh, our intern last year who was a big facebook user turned probably 25-30 if not more pages per visit. I doubt if facebook, myspace, youtube or any of the beacons of the new internet age have ever relied on affiliate marketing. Their VC sponsors would not have allowed it. Finally I believe its entirely possible that youtube/myspace went to acquirers and told them we don’t have a salesforce but you do and you can make this much money from us. By having a salesforce with 4-5 senior guys plus a bunch of juniors and not having a decent pipeline, are we telling the world that perhaps the model is faulty? Even if we assume we get a 15 CPM and myspace gets a 1.50 CPM, and if we have 2.6 pages per unique vs 25 per unique for them, we end up with the same gross revenue with the same uniques but we would have a bloated marketing cost, where they would have none. Add to that the fact that their inventory costs them zip, and we have large upfront acquisition costs and we end up keeping just 33% of our revenue (if we are lucky to use up the recoupable advance) hence on a net revenue basis we would be 1/3rd their net revenue with a bloated marketing expense. So before we start dreaming of youtube valuations, we have to get our perspective straightened out. This is our opportunity to start fresh and blame the months passed as a failed experiment. I’d argue that our main problems are lack of music content and lack of site features - fixing these two is key to our future success. If there’s one aspect I’d like to emphasize above all is that the unbalanced and incorrect focus on paid marketing is sapping our resources for money, development resources and management attention - besides being counter-productive to our overall goals. Amir Khan Portfolio Manager 3V Capital Management Thank you, Mel September will see the highest ever monthly membership total (30% higher than June) yet September versus June member acquisition costs are 63% less expensiveSeptember will see the highest ever impressions served (16% higher than June) yet September versus June cost per impression are 58% less expensivePage/visit September versus June are 70% higher (7.45 vs. 4.39)Time on site September versus June are 140% higher (8 minutes vs. 3:20) I am having 2nd thoughts. My friend came to visit the company on friday and he asked very pointed questions to which we had no answers about refresh rate and pages per visit compared to facebook etc., which we keep comparing ourselves to. If u look deeper our traffic numbers are a house of cards. I know him for 20+ years and there is no way he will invest in the company with such metrics. We need to discuss this again. —– Original Message —– Mel To be fair, let’s adjust my calculation below to grant that registered users end up spending more amount of time on the site than the average - which is skewed downward by those paid search users that end up quickly leaving the site. From Google Analytics stats for October 2007 (when we had no paid search programs ongoing), the average pageviews per visit was 14 and # of visits per user per month was 2. These numbers are very close to our original business plan assumptions. 6.If spiralfrogclub generated just 10,000 emails, and the Alicia Keys program (from which we expected 4mm new uniques) generated just 3,000 new uniques, we should make sure we don’t commit the same mistake again. These viral programs accomplished just 1 thing - they made me sick. I am unwilling to see a single program we have in the works fail. And there have to be accountability and repercussions for any marketing failures going forward. I don’t know whether we pulled resources from other projects to work on these as well so besides money; opportunity cost, manpower redeployment etc also need to be accounted for. Did these happen at the expense of release 3.0 or other enhancements which would make new visitors stick to us? And with the affiliate programs, are we doing the same? From: Amir Khan Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 4:20 PM To: Mel Schrieberg Cc: Orville Hagler Subject: Re: Traffic Analysis I agree with the sentiment (decrease dependence on paid methods while searching for alliances - barter or otherwise), however the metrics have been getting better since June. I will do a full reconciliation at the end of the month, but judging on pacing so far, this is what we see: SpiralFrog's turmoil, in missives

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Beatles lovers will soon be able to feel what it’s like to sing and play with the Fab Four in the interactive game The Beatles: Rock Band. But what famous Beatles tunes will be featured on the disc?

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