The Year of the iPod; the Age of the iPod; the iPod on the top of the list; up to 11 million iPods

The iPod takes four positions in the top ten of most searched term in Froogle. It took the #1, #4, #8, and #10 places.

Analysts from Piper Jaffray raised their estimated 9 million iPods to be sold in the last quarter to 11 million.

It's the year of the iPod in Japan. News has it that Apple has taken 60% of the digital music player market in November. This is compared to Sony's 10%. Sony is having a bad fourth quarter. From the DRM debacle to the new lawsuits filed by Texas to losing ground to Apple. What else could go wrong?

From the year of the iPod, let's take lessons from the Age of the iPod and these are: being first is not important. Timing is. Design the right products and services; success often comes in making the whole much, much better than the parts and; don't sacrifice quality for price. Knocking down a product for everyone to buy is not a good idea. Learn to revolutionize then learn to evolve.

Pakman suggests that the other online music services DRM do away with DRM on songs that are not selling well anymore. He also says that his company, eMusic, is doing as well as iTMS is.

By the way, you can get your iPod invisa on eBay.

Chris Howard wants an iPod with a Swiss army knife.

PC Magazine offers 6 ways to connect your iPod to your car. (I went the cheap way and "borrowed" my brother's casette adapter.)

The Unofficial Apple Weblog gives tips on compression settings for your 5G iPod.