By Tim Cole* There is no doubt that false information and fake news sites on the Internet hugely influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. There is no more appropriate figurehead for what the Economist in a recent title story called the “post-truth world”
“Radical new display and content-delivery technologies will kill off the television set” is the sub-title of this post on IEEE Spectrum published April 25, 2016. “That’s not to say news and scheduled broadcasts couldn’t be delivered over the Internet. If broadcasters chose to make them
By Tim Cole Is intellectual property theft? Listening to the high-pitched arguments about digital piracy one could almost assume that copyright or commercial legal protection of intellectual property are a law of nature; something we always enjoyed and that’s been around forever. Not so: The
By Tomi Ahonen (Author of six global bestselling hardcover books, three eBooks, and working GLOBALLY for customers in technology. Founding member of ForumOxford.com, Wireless Watch, Carnival of Mobilists. Referenced in 50 books by other authors) BIGGER THAN YOU THOUGHT There are more mobiles than humans
Here are the slides from my Keynote on The Future of Connected Music at La Digital Tech Conference in Rennes, France on December 3, 2016. The Future of Connected Music by Rudy de Waele at La Digital Tech Conference from Rudy De Waele The video
Video of Laurent Haug’s (Entrepreneur, Observer, Investor, Strategist) NEXT Festival talk on the consumer retail trends. You can find the slides on https://www.slideshare.net/laurenthaug… and below is a text recap of the main points. Online = offline The difference between online and offline is disapearing, turning “ecommerce” into simply
Futurist Gerd Leonhard at Media Future Week in Almere, NL Futurist Gerd Leonhard discusses the future of media, content and entertainment at Media Future Week 2011 in Almere see https://www.mediafutureweek.nl/ More videos (most of the other presentations) can be found at https://www.vimeo.com/album/1602774 See https://www.slideshare.net/gleonhard/p… for the PDF
Must read article by by Connie Chan from Andreessen Horowitz on WeChat – the largest standalone messaging app by monthly active users. While seemingly just a messaging app, WeChat is actually more of a portal, a platform, and even a mobile operating system depending on how you look at it.
After years of insisting otherwise, investors seem to have decided that the pay TV business is in decline. Earlier this month, triggered by an admission of weakness from Disney and ESPN, Wall Street pounded all of the big media companies, wiping out more than $50 billion
Spotify recently introduced Discover Weekly: the best-ever recommendations delivered to users as a weekly mixtape of fresh music. The streaming service will create weekly, personalized playlists based on people’s individual listening patterns. This is a major improvement in the recommendations offered to you by Spotify – something
