mad dog in the fog

It took a little less than a year to go from 1 billion to 2 billion songs sold on iTunes.  It took a little over six months to go from 2 billion to 3 billion songs sold.  Will we see 4 billion songs sold by the end of the year?

Analysis elsewhere:

• The Unofficial Apple Weblog
• Blackfriars’ Marketing
• B2.0-The Utility Belt
• Epicenter
• Download Squad
• Good Morning Silicon Valley
• MacUser

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• Web 2.0 Inefficiency: Crossposting On Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Etc. » Publishing 2.0
  People are getting tired of seeing the same stuff syndicated all over the place.
  (tags: web2.0)
• Technophilia: Get productive with the best Facebook Apps - Lifehacker
  (tags: facebook)
• Iceberg On Demand - Build, Share and Sell powerful applications easily with no coding.
  Another DIY app builder, similar to Zoho Creator, Coghead, etc.
  (tags: web2.0)

Merlin Mann (43 Folders, The Merlin Show, etc.) gives his ‘Inbox Zero‘ talk at Google Tech Talks.

• From Business Cards To Viral Status-Symbol Packagers: MOO Cards - Robin Good’s Latest News
  “MOO … is showing everyone that with the right amount of innovation, originality and pricing and a great set of ears open to the what the customer says everything is indeed possible.”
  (tags: design marketing)
• Blurb | Self publish with free BookSmart software for Windows or Mac
  On-demand publishing
  (tags: publishing webtools)

• What Twitter is (Scripting News)
  “…it’s way too early to cash it out, they all took the right approach, seed it with some more capital to add more bandwidth, solidify the back-end, add a bit more functionality, and wait to see what the users and developers do with it.”
  (tags: twitter)
• iPhone+AT&T Bill=Uh-Oh - Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog
  “…get this–I get SIX PAGES of listings of data tidbits that the iPhone has downloaded in the form of email and Web pages–KILOBYTE BY KILOBYTE! Every graphic on every Web page, every message sent or received–it’s all carefully listed…”
  (tags: iphone apple)
• Bonds hits #754
  One away.
  (tags: mlb baseball sfgiants)

The National performed on Letterman the other night…

• Eyejot
  Send a video message
  (tags: collaboration communication)
• Twitter | Union Square Ventures: Twitter
  It will be interesting to see where Twitter goes next
  (tags: twitter)

• San Jose Mercury News - Amazon shares soar on strong Q2 profit
  “Shares of Amazon.com Inc. soared 26 percent on Wednesday, a day after the Web retailer reported its second-quarter profit more than tripled on strong sales of books, music and electronics.”
  (tags: stocks technews)

• San Francisco, 1971, from the Bay Bridge (Originals by Bruce Steinberg) (Brad’s Photos)
  Check out the double decker freeway along the Embarcadero and the half-built Transamerica Building
  (tags: sfhistory sanfrancisco panoramic)

• Q&A with TiVo’s Jim Denney about TiVo HD - Engadget HD
  TiVoToGo will be available on the Series 3 sometime soon
  (tags: tivo tivoseries3)