Tag: digital media
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Creative Destruction In the Music Industry
I am a very happy Spotify Premium customer. Everyone talks about Spotify like it’s some type of new social media driven discovery engine, spreading new music through our networks like a happy virus of connectedness. I think that description hurts them because that’s not what makes Spotify great and it’s not what’s innovative. I keep my…
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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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Mobile Coupons
The short story is that we’re nowhere near replacing traditional coupons with digital ones, but it’s going to happen very quickly when someone solves a few problems that dont seem particularly complicated. I think the opportunity is going to be exploited by a strong application and site which will drive a critical adoption rate from…