Classical Music - that was so yesterday
Sunday, January 20th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Music, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Trends, Web/Tech | 2 Comments »Oh no its not - I came across a New Yorker article by the esteemed Alex Ross - who writes a blog The Rest is Noise And he writes about how the blogosphere has helped drive a renewed interest ...
Open Social: Google’s New Social Networking Platform - What Is It And Why It Matters
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Generation C, Media, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | 3 Comments »Robin Good - provides insight into networked API's While social networking giants such as MySpace and Facebook have been building huge online communities by utilizing proprietary approaches and protocols, a new group of companies led by Google ...
IBM is hip hip hip
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Participation, Social Networks, Web/Tech | No Comments »Google is often portrayed as the technology hipster, rolling out Web applications almost at whim. But unseen to the public, IBM is rolling out Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, mashups and virtual reality technologies to help its ...
Why Console Games will be bigger than Rock’n'Roll
Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Gaming, Media, Music, Participation, Society, Web/Tech | No Comments »Commissioned by Youth Music and written by Andrew Missingham, this report has sought out young people?s views about music-games, and aims to provide an insight into how music-games may develop and how the music sector could make the most of ...
New Kids on the Blog - BBC Radio 4 explores the evolution of media
Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Convergence, Distribution, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Social Networks, Society, Television, Web/Tech, Weblogs | 2 Comments »http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/4tbwg/ Matt Frei looks at how the digital revolution is changing the face of American media. American journalism is changing faster than ever before and the mass audiences of the nightly network news are in decline. With the internet explosion, Americans now ...
A new digital era: predicts Bill Gates
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Generation C, Media, Mobile, Networks, News, Newspapers, Retail, Social Networks, Society, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Funny old world. In CDB we wrote Generation-C stands for the Community Generation. The defining and distinguishing characteristic for Gen-C is the continuous connection to and responding to digital communities. This is very different from any other communities. ...
ITV shares downgraded
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Media, Mobile, Social Networks, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Lehman brothers has downgraded its stance on ITV, saying traditional media companies are likely to face disruption from coming technology changes. Changing its outlook on the media sector to ?neutral? from ?positive?, Lehman downgraded ITV to ?underweight? from ?equal-weight?. Lehman ...
Kids and the future of media
Monday, January 7th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Music, Newspapers, Philosophy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »In his post What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media We get simple but useful insight into children, their media consumption and what they mean for us. OUr VC writes I was reading a ...
Secret Crush or Social Worm?
Monday, January 7th, 2008 Posted in Ethics, Media, Social Networks, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »I have been doing some thinking around engagement on social platforms and how one then monetises that community. Interestingly I heard someone speak recently that outlined the web 2.0 strategy of commercialising social networks. Basically, build your platform let people use it ...
Xtract in Deloitte top 500 and in competition for Finnish technology company of the year
Sunday, January 6th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Engagement Marketing, Media, News, Social Networks, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »5 years ago I would have never thought that such a company might exist that company is Xtract What do they do? Xtract is capable of taking large and multiple raw data flows and turn those data flows into unique ...
