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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
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- The Future: End of Capitalism
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Mobile Music Forecasts
EE Times: Global spending on mobile music from ring tones to full-track downloads is expected to reach $32.2 billion by 2010, with consumers in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan leading the market, a researcher said Tuesday. Spending on music for handsets is forecast to increase by nearly two and a half times this year’s predicted
Children’s World
BBC announces children’s world. Read our analysis of the Pre-Teens space in Segments and LifeStyles. Some raise the obvious security question. But clearly, the segment deserves attention, and BBC has decided to pay it.
Will the Digital Era Change Writing?
The rock album is dying, with digital services letting music fans cherry-pick individual songs they like. But will something similar happen to writing? Is the novel endangered by slice-and-dice nature of the Web? Interesting article from the WSJ comparing the Future of Books to the Present of Music. My take: Most non-fiction is better presented
Segments & Lifestyles: Working Women
Here is a report on the state of the internet in terms of targeting the Working Women demographic, a highly desirable segment, yet seemingly somewhat underserved from an advertising inventory point of view. Some possible positionings for content and services that would capture the attention of this audience: – A Personal Shopping service for the
Eager Parents
Here’s our report on Parents from the Segments and Lifestyles Series. 2007 could well be the year of the networked parents. Only other parents have the patience to listen to the endless details of kids’ stories that every parent has and wants to share, making this is a terrific social networking category! And given how
eBooks Future
Harper Collins announces an investment in NewsStand this week to enhance its digital efforts. This draws attention of book lovers and passionate readers to the future of Books. Some of the more successful book projects recently have been the blockbuster Harry Potter series and the Da Vinci Code franchise, as well as the literary successes
Who Would Have Thought?
Imagine you are a venture capitalist, and some little punk entrepreneur comes in and presents a business plan that projects that little kids would be adopting virtual pets. Instead of parents having to clean poop and puke, when children come calling for a chocolate lab puppy, they would introduce the little ones to virtual pets.
Concept Arbitrage: Content & Community
A while back, I wrote a popular series called Concept Arbitrage, about ideas that have been successful in America, and have potential in India. Here is the summary of that series from last June. I want to point you, now, to a set of ideas that have been gaining traction as content-community digital media properties
