Sisyph.us - Erik's personal blogs

Foneshow is featured in an article in BusinessWeek today focusing on competitors to Sirius.

Another option: Foneshow lets any phone with text messaging capabilities to catch custom talk radio programming, like Bill Press and Thom Hartmann. Whenever a new show segment becomes available, your phone receives a short text message with a link. You hit "Send," and your phone starts streaming audio, which you can pause, skip or forward to a friend. Foneshow sells advertising, unlike Sirius.

We're honored to be included with other great companies like Pandora, Stitcher and Slacker.

Satellite radio is in deep trouble. XM Sirius, after finally merging, has just filed for bankruptcy protection.

I'm here at the Radio Ink Convergence conference, the response to the news was a cheer.

A few thoughts...

Debt is what killed XM. Anything that involves spaceships to get up and running has some serious capital expenses.

But debt is what's killing terrestrial radio too, so terrestrial shouldn't get too smug.

Both of them have decent cash flow.

Audio media in trouble is bad for all audio media.

These are just my first thoughts. I'll write more later.

Odeo is for sale. See our "Audio on the Desktop is Doomed" post to understand why.

Sirius and XM are merging. They're merging because they're scared of Foneshow. We move them to the top of the competitors list in the slide deck, and less than a month later they're consolidating to fight us. :-)