Sunday, January 23, 2005
Fifteen more seconds of fame, and my iWork has shipped
Hitting and running...
Exhibit A, from today's New York Times: "'It's a booming aftermarket of the iPod economy,' said Bill Palmer, a 27-year-old entrepreneur who has created a nationwide network of iPod loaders called Loadpod. Each loader picks up the iPod and CD's at the client's home, then returns a fully loaded iPod in a few days."
The funny thing is, that quote was from a thirty-five minute phone interview I did with them last week. But the above is all that they ended up using. Oh well, I'll gladly take it. It's not every day the New York Times refers to you as an "entrepreneur"...or even refers to you at all.
Exhibit B, from this month's Sound and Vision Magazine: "Don't have time to load your CD collection onto your iPod? It just so happens that there's a service called LoadPod, which will do the work for you. Request the service at loadpod.com, and a representative will come to your door, pick up your iPod and discs, and return everything to you within five days."
So how much time did I spend doing the interview with Sound and Vision? Uh, none. I'd never even heard from them (or heard of them, for matter) until someone pointed it out to me.
Moral of the story? Sometimes you have to work your tail off for publicity for your company, and sometimes it just falls in your lap. That's the way it goes. Far more exciting is the fact that my copy of iWork shipped yesterday and should be in my lazy little hands by Tuesday at the latest. I've been using Keynote to update the iTunes Bottlecap Map so far this year (just as I did last year), and I can't wait to throw Keynote 2.0 at it and see what kind of trouble I can't whip up this time around.
Now, if only the Mountain Dew bottles around here would hurry up and become iTunes-eligible, because my song is not yet in the bottle.
Hitting and running...
Exhibit A, from today's New York Times: "'It's a booming aftermarket of the iPod economy,' said Bill Palmer, a 27-year-old entrepreneur who has created a nationwide network of iPod loaders called Loadpod. Each loader picks up the iPod and CD's at the client's home, then returns a fully loaded iPod in a few days."
The funny thing is, that quote was from a thirty-five minute phone interview I did with them last week. But the above is all that they ended up using. Oh well, I'll gladly take it. It's not every day the New York Times refers to you as an "entrepreneur"...or even refers to you at all.
Exhibit B, from this month's Sound and Vision Magazine: "Don't have time to load your CD collection onto your iPod? It just so happens that there's a service called LoadPod, which will do the work for you. Request the service at loadpod.com, and a representative will come to your door, pick up your iPod and discs, and return everything to you within five days."
So how much time did I spend doing the interview with Sound and Vision? Uh, none. I'd never even heard from them (or heard of them, for matter) until someone pointed it out to me.
Moral of the story? Sometimes you have to work your tail off for publicity for your company, and sometimes it just falls in your lap. That's the way it goes. Far more exciting is the fact that my copy of iWork shipped yesterday and should be in my lazy little hands by Tuesday at the latest. I've been using Keynote to update the iTunes Bottlecap Map so far this year (just as I did last year), and I can't wait to throw Keynote 2.0 at it and see what kind of trouble I can't whip up this time around.
Now, if only the Mountain Dew bottles around here would hurry up and become iTunes-eligible, because my song is not yet in the bottle.
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