Apart from the nice looking e-ink display and the apprently correct design (though not awesome, the keyboard is really tacky) what really is genius in Amazon’s Kindle resides in this discreet excerpt from Amazon’s sale pitch:

Unlike WiFi, you don’t have to find a hotspot. Amazon pays for Kindle’s wireless connectivity so you will never see a monthly wireless bill for shopping the Kindle Store. There is no wireless setup—you are ready to shop, purchase and read right out of the box.

That’s what I call something huge in term of user experience: no sync via a PC, no WiFi hot-spot hunting, no subscription fee, no subscription at all! It’s a naturally connected device.

By simply wiping the wireless access issue out, Amazon understood that a brilliant user experience does not come only from a combination of features and design, but from disruptive business practice too.

Kindle is a breakthrough.

iPhoney simulates how mobile Safari renders pages on an iPhone. You can rotate and zoom, and it looks good too. It requires Safari Beta 3 to benefit of all the cool features like zooming.

I’m currently brainstorming with the excellent David Turgeon, founder of the music label NoType (which offers free music on line to experimental music’s lovers since the late 90’s!), for a fun and simple service dedicated to iPhone and iPodTouch owners.

À suivre…

Jammie Thomas, a 30-year-old single mother of two, has been ordered to pay $222,000 to the RIAA for sharing 24 tunes on Kazaa.

It’s absolutely outrageous, and I simply don’t understand how artists can silently let the RIAA sue their freakin’ fans!

Influent music artists trully have the responsibility to end this mess. They can’t hide any more behind the fatality of copyright laws when an ordinary woman gets a $200K fine for 24 allegedly “stolen” songs!

Here is the list of the cool pop stars with attitude that didn’t even issue a communiqué saying “Not in my name”:

Guns N Roses , Vanessa Williams , Janet Jackson , Gloria Estefan , Goo Goo Dolls , Journey , Sara McLachlan , Aerosmith , Linkin Park , Def Leppard , Reba McEntire , Bryan Adams , No Doubt , Sheryl Crow , Richard Marx , Destiny’s Child , Green Day

Digital media distribution is a great challenge, and Radiohead came these days with a pretty good idea: you can buy here the download version of their upcoming album at the price you want.

Good UXP can be build upon such an approach, but it is not exactly what a Sony-BMG told before the court in Duluth yesterday when asked if it was okay for consumers to make just one copy of a track they’ve legally purchased.

“[that's] a nice way of saying, ’steals just one copy.’”

… enough is said.

Read full report in Wired.