Paul McCartney Releases Album Online

Good to see Paul McCartney isn’t stuck in Yesterday.

Paul McCartney’s new album, “Memory Almost Full,” will be his first solo release available for download and streaming on PCs and mobile phones. As previously reported, the set is due June 5 via Starbucks’ new Hear Music label. In addition, McCartney tells Billboard in an exclusive interview to be published tomorrow (May 11) that a deal to finally make the Beatles catalog available for sale online is “virtually settled.”

The album title alone is a nod to your MP3 player. Rock on.

Google’s New Tagline and the Long Tail

Much like Google’s front page search box, their new tagline hides a great synergy in its simplicity: Search, ads, and apps.

Remember Google’s mission statement: Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Much of the world’s information is Long Tail content. Apps produce Long Tail content, search taps Long Tail content, and ads monetize Long Tail content. It’s a powerful cycle. Good thing their motto is Don’t be evil, eh?