Joel Spolsky writes: “Well, there are a couple of dozen products named Copilot, many with registered trademarks, so our trademark lawyer advised us to use Fog Creek Copilot which would eliminate any possibility of confusion with those other Copilot brand products.”

and..

“We bought the domain name for more money than we spent developing the first version of FogBugz.”

That’s copilot.com. Better hope no-one complains about using that domain name.

This morning my head feels about 5 seconds behind the rest of my body. I get this woozy feeling every time I move it. It’s not the beer – I’ve not had any for about 10 days. Ah..

According to the BBC, “Musicians have begun looking to mobile phones to reach fans directly, bypassing the record label.”. Their article cites Andy Cato from Groove Armada as teaming up with O2 to offer tracks for download to mobiles. Andy sees this as a way of selling tracks to fans quickly, without relying on a record label.

On the face of it, this is a good idea. But mobile phone operators are as ruthless and aggressive as record companies. Surely it won’t be long before musicians are ‘signed’ to phone operators?

With respect to selling tracks quickly, Live8 managed to get the opening track from the London performance onto 200 download sites within one day. Isn’t that quick enough?

In any case, Andy could just sell the tracks from his own website, given that currently O2’s music service only works with two handsets. More exposure and no need to ‘share’ profits with O2.

Apple have started their countdown to selling 500,000,000 songs on the iTunes Music Store. Aside from prizes for purchasing songs at the 100,000 interval there’s a prize for purchasing the half a billionth song.

10 iPods of the winners choice to share with family and friends, an iTunes gift card for 10,000 songs and an all-expenses paid trip for four to see Coldplay on their world tour.

At least that’ll give ‘em something to listen to if they have to go and see Coldplay. You’d have to chain me up and stick me in a box to go and see them. Ugh.