http://blog.sawce.net Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:12:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So there was this Canadian study (cited here, here, here, here and well, you get the point) that found people who download illegal music are more likely to buy music as well. It makes a lot of sense. People download music to discover it. People buy music when they want to ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sawce/~4/sD5eKfQCpCU" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sawce/~3/sD5eKfQCpCU/ http://blog.sawce.net/2007/11/04/piracy-and-music/ We're coming close to being able to open our public beta: from here on out, most of what needs to be done is just tweaking interfaces and writing content. With that in mind, I'd like to start introducing what you can expect from Sawce in a series that outlines our ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sawce/~4/GJMF85xXyu4" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sawce/~3/GJMF85xXyu4/ http://blog.sawce.net/2007/11/02/the-road-to-launch-the-sawce-widget/ So, there've been rumors about it for a while, and it was really inevitable from day one... Music is an industry of cool, after all, and when it comes to "cool" on the web, facebook is definitely fighting for the title. This recent piece of news is probably the most ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sawce/~4/vlAVMzjaGis" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sawce/~3/vlAVMzjaGis/ http://blog.sawce.net/2007/10/31/facebook-music/ There's a lot of talk about artists being able to fully embrace digital distribution these days by forgetting about record labels and just selling their stuff on their own. Thanks to social networks and blogs, which allow artists to pick up fans a lot quicker, and the ability to easily ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sawce/~4/3F2lPuC6hV0" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sawce/~3/3F2lPuC6hV0/ http://blog.sawce.net/2007/10/22/inrainbows/ The following is an email I scored to my address book in April of 2007. Though the thoughts it contains are raw and are from a completely different space than we're in today, I think it lays a foundation to what Sawce is really all about. Enjoy. To all on the ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sawce/~4/rjkb0X25EwA" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sawce/~3/rjkb0X25EwA/ http://blog.sawce.net/2007/10/21/thoughts-on-music/ Welcome to the Sawce Blog. Over the next few weeks we're going to start releasing updates and previews of what we have going on as we prepare for launch, along with a little bit of commentary on the radical changes that the connected age has brought to music. We hope ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sawce/~4/2a_WwSL2Rig" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sawce/~3/2a_WwSL2Rig/ http://blog.sawce.net/2007/10/11/welcome/