Category: Media & Technology
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Creative Destruction
I’m reading The Master Switch by Tim Wu, which was recommended to me by Jerry Neumann (side note: Jerry recently produced an awesomely useful VC bot which tracks announced investments as they show up on vc sites). If you’re interested in the technology industry, you should definitely read it. It addresses some interesting themes that are essentially…
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Twitter, Media and the Osama bin Laden Story
Last night re-confirmed that Twitter is the medium of choice for breaking stories. As a media channel, Twitter scooped literally everyone….again. The story of the killing of Osama bin Laden drove massive amounts of sustained traffic, sentiment and insights throughout the night and into Monday. Measured in Tweets-Per-Second, the bin Laden story generated the highest…
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AirBnb: Design As Competitive Advantage
There’s a great blog post by Chris Dixon that got my head spinning in this direction. Chris’ post is not directly about design; it’s more about the TV industry and Apple but he brought up a good point that I think bears repeating. When Apple was launching the iPhone, a lot of smart people thought that…
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AT&T and T-Mobile Will Slow Innovation
Om Malik wrote a good piece on this merger; it’s fairly old news at this point. I’m pretty sure I dislike this deal and I think it’s going to inhibit American entrepreneurs from accelerating innovation in mobile. Strategically, the proposed $39 Billion cash and stock deal that’s been put up by AT&T to acquire T-mobile…
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Melting Ice Cubes: New vs. Old Media
I try to get involved in lots of conversations about the future of the media industry. Having worked initially in the music industry (content creation) and later in the emerging media business (content strategy), I spend a lot of time thinking about were people spend their time accessing information and consuming content, and I’m lucky…
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Five Predictions for 2011
I started to write a retrospective on 2010, but decided that we all lived through the year and there are some great photo essays that are much more interesting than my thoughts. Instead, I’m going to make five predictions on tech, social and digital media trends in 2011. 1. Exponential growth in the U.S. smartphone…
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Buh-Bye Credit Cards: Near Field Communications Will Let You Pay By Phone.
According to RWW, Google announced yesterday that the next version of Android (Gingerbread) will include native support for Near Field Communications (NFC). NFC, according to available definitions: …is a wireless technology that allows data to be exchanged between two different devices — say, a credit card or a cell phone and a credit card terminal —…
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