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New Technology, Same Old Design

by Daniel Taylor on 12 October, 2009

The media industry busily applying old designs to new technologies. Kind of like when people started building bridges out of steel, but using designs optimized for wood. But just because a company made money selling print advertising in newspapers, that doesn’t mean that their next business will be Internet display advertising.

Putting Pectin First

by Daniel Taylor on 5 October, 2009

Analyzing the future of the media industry in terms of advertising is kinda like talking about jelly market by writing a report about pectin.

Guarding The Social Media Henhouse

1 September 2009

We already know that there’s quite a bit of social media traffic that’s shameless self promotion. But what about that distilled form of social media that’s promotion for people who provide social media services? Who’s guarding the henhouse?

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Wrong Predictions: Mobility and Media

27 August 2009

Let’s give up on the idea that technology defines markets. Legacy research industry taxonomies and agendas have created some major blind spots, the biggest of which is that we have difficulty seeing markets independent of their underlying technologies. Example: mobile media.

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Meaningful Questions About Mobile Media

23 August 2009

When will American consumers get the memo about mobile music? You know, the one that said for us to start listening to music on our mobile phones. Or are our expectations unreasonable? And are we missing the Big Picture here?

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Do Consumers Really Want To Pay For Media?

13 August 2009

I have a post entitled “Do Consumers Really Want To Pay For Media” over at NewTeeVee.

Turns out that this is a pretty big topic to tackle in a blog post. But we had a ton of interesting insights from the data we assembled for the report The Ongoing Battle for the Digital Home available (subscription only) at GigaOM Pro.

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