A Graph
I have prepared a graph of the music industry and its associated technology
acquisitions to better understand the relations therein.
If you are using IE6 -- note that the graph may appear squished,
with text too hard to read. If this is the case, IE6 is "automatically resizing"
the picture to fit in your browser window. You don't want this. To fix it,
go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced and look under
Multimedia for "Enable Automatic Image Resizing" -- make sure it's
unchecked.
Commentary
As noted by
Darryl Neudorf,
EMI is ambiguously involved with both
MusicNet
and
pressplay -- they're
tightly aligned with the former but have licensed their content to
the latter.
Microsoft
and
Yahoo
are both on the front page of
pressplay, as is
Roxio,
a
partially-owned
EMI subsidiary.
Yes, this industry is confusing. Don't forget that
MP3.com is part of
this new world order, but in a totally different way.
Corrections
Please do
email me your comments, corrections,
additions, and criticisms as regards this graph. =)
How Did I Do It?
The graph was made with
graphviz,
an Open Source graphing tool.
Here is the text file that generated the
graph.
