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• {Follow Up} Why Entertainment Industry still has Digital all wrong - Midem 2012

  Thanks to all of you that have emailed me regarding my post, I do enjoy the emails that I receive from around the world - and there were a number of questions posed that I decided to add as a supplement Blog post to the original post from yesterday... Read More... Posted 12 January 2012 19:15 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: iTunes, DRM, digital downloads, apple, digital library, fairplay, mp3, Longtail, Amazon, free music, music subscription, music retail, CDs, RIAA, Last FM, BPI, Diary Of A Madman, torrents, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, Coldplay, Terra Firma, Guy Hands, brand development, FLAC, Sony, publishing, google, Torrent Freak, File Sharing, P2P, illegal file sharing, PPL, Sharing Media, MCPS/PRS, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, ISP, Internet Service Providers, Warners, the cloud, Make Tech Easier, android, iPhone, iPod, Digital Long Tail, Digital Media Long Tail, business vision, strategy, business strategy, art of strategy, Midem, MidemNet, Digital Music 2.0, user experience, digital rights agency, consulting, total customer experience, Spotify, Amazon Cloud Drive, iCloud, cloud, Business Innovation, Innovation, Google Music, The Digital Asylum, MPAA, Netflix

• Why Entertainment Industry still has Digital all wrong - Midem 2012

  With Midem only two weeks away, the South of France will again, be a stage for the music industry to work itself into a frenzy to figure out the best route forward into discovering how to rescue itself from the brink of its own self-importance/ destruction. Read More... Posted 11 January 2012 16:41 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: iTunes, DRM, digital downloads, apple, digital library, fairplay, mp3, Longtail, Amazon, free music, music subscription, music retail, CDs, RIAA, Last FM, BPI, Diary Of A Madman, torrents, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, Coldplay, Terra Firma, Guy Hands, brand development, FLAC, Sony, publishing, google, Torrent Freak, File Sharing, P2P, illegal file sharing, PPL, Sharing Media, MCPS/PRS, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, ISP, Internet Service Providers, Warners, the cloud, Make Tech Easier, android, iPhone, iPod, Digital Long Tail, Digital Media Long Tail, business vision, strategy, business strategy, art of strategy, Midem, MidemNet, Digital Music 2.0, user experience, digital rights agency, consulting, total customer experience, Spotify, Amazon Cloud Drive, iCloud, cloud, Business Innovation, Innovation, Google Music, The Digital Asylum, MPAA

• Innovate..Evolve..or become irrelevant (Baby Boomers vs Gen X)

  The world is a very different place than what it was 20 years ago! Nice opening statement from the ‘school of the bloody obvious’ isn’t it? Well you would think so, 20 years ago back in 1991 we were a very different breed, we had a taster of technology Read More... Posted 04 November 2011 15:47 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: multi-channel retailing, brand identity, Diary Of A Madman, Music Industry, marketing, brand development, mergers, business intelligence, GenY, business vision, business strategy, art of strategy, consulting, patents, Gen X, Business Innovation, Evolution, Innovation, Unions, Baby Boomers, kodak, Union Workforce

• Losing patience with patent trolls...

  I like to think that I/ we innovate and instigate new thinking and evolution on the present, the here and now, the what is already there. Only by doing this, by pushing yourself and your thinking forward will we ever evolve. Compare this first mobile Read More... Posted 22 September 2011 17:10 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: apple, Diary Of A Madman, digital media, google, data integration, Apps Store, Marketplace, mobile apps, android, mobile, eCommerce, iPhone, Best Buy, m-commerce, mobile commerce, future of mobile, business vision, business strategy, Application, Architecture, Patent reform, patent wars, adidas vs lodsys, patent troll, patents, lodsys

• More Music & Technology stuff... Facebook vs MySpace

  What else is bubbling away in the darkened beanbags in Silicon Valley that is blending the Geek thinking with your average consumer of social stuff... Facebook developers have been busy creating some great applications and platform developments, as they Read More... Posted 05 April 2011 14:47 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: iTunes, digital downloads, apple, digital library, Amazon, CDs, Diary Of A Madman, digital media, Music Industry, internet value, myspace, social networks, facebook, google, ad words, MCPS/PRS, digital media evangelist, future of the music industry, Apps Store, the cloud, android, mobile, eCommerce, iPhone, iPod, Zune, Digital Long Tail, business vision, business strategy, MySpace Music, You Tube Music Video, social media, Spotify, Amazon Cloud Drive, f-commerce, Silicon Valley

• Retail & eCommerce: Why is it not going to plan?

  I was prompted to write this blog in a sort of pseudo response to an article in the FT  article http://tinyurl.com/RetailFT around the predictions of ecommerce and why there is not the glutton of mass adoption of this medium. Well firstly it is doing Read More... Posted 08 July 2009 14:31 by Derek.Dunlop | 2 Comments Filed under: high street brands, multi-channel retailing, pop up retail, retail, Diary Of A Madman, brand development, social networks, social shopping, retail theatre, retail training, e-commerce, eCommerce, recession, recession retail, 360° Retail, business vision, strategy, business strategy, EMC Consulting EMEA, death of the high street, UK High Street, UK Retail, Retail Commerce, social media

• Amazon: from e-tailer to the worlds first e-shopping mall?

  I’ve been talking about the state of the high street for my last few posts and of course will continue to discuss and debate the future and where there could be some light at the end of the tunnel (looking specifically at the launch of Wellworths - a Read More... Posted 13 March 2009 20:28 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: digital downloads, high street brands, multi-channel retailing, brand identity, online retailers, Longtail, Amazon, retail, Diary Of A Madman, traditional high street, digital media, brand development, online advertising, microsoft, virtual high street, retail week, business tools, business intelligence, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, web platform, Marketplace, e-commerce, eCommerce, Amazon commerce, mobile commerce, recession retail, micro distribution, macro distribution, 360° Retail, 2009, business vision, business strategy, EMC Consulting EMEA, UK High Street, UK Retail, Retail Commerce, web technology, micro e-commerce, nano technology, nano commerce, Amazon CloudFront, AWS, TwitPay, jeff bezos, 722, e-shopping mall, EC2, Amazon S3

• Digital Britain: Built on Rules & Regulation?

  My continuing blog posts about the Governments Digital Britain will continue up to the point that the final document is completed by Lord Carter. Probably go on beyond that – but some news and initiatives trickling out last night – really got my back Read More... Posted 11 March 2009 15:04 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: digital downloads, digital library, free music, music retail, RIAA, Internet Radio, BPI, Diary Of A Madman, Digital Revolution Movement, torrents, movie downloads, digital media, Music Industry, Robbie Williams, the beatles, myspace, google, Cookie-tracking technology, google video ads, Torrent Freak, File Sharing, P2P, illegal file sharing, PPL, Feargal Sharkey, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, ISP, Internet Service Providers, future of the music industry, micro distribution, business vision, business strategy, MySpace Music, Digital Music 2.0, UK Government Report, Digital Britain 2009, UK Government, web technology, You Tube Music Video, digital rights agency, Featured Artist Coalition, Lord Carter, You Tube

• Mobile Apps – The digital media future is in their hands

  In my last post I touched very briefly on the Games and Movie industry and where the D2C opportunities are heading. These are inevitable – however there are more pressing issues at stake just now and the as 2009 is THE year of the emerging mobile (we Read More... Posted 02 March 2009 17:14 by Derek.Dunlop | 1 Comments Filed under: iTunes, digital downloads, apple, digital library, free music, music subscription, cover mounts, Diary Of A Madman, movie downloads, digital media, facebook, google, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, future of the music industry, Apps Store, Live Marketplace, Marketplace, mobile apps, android, mobile, AppleWebKit, iPhone, iTouch, m-commerce, mobile commerce, future of mobile, Digital Long Tail, Digital Media Long Tail, Mobile Long Tail, mIPTV, What will be hot in 2009, business vision, business strategy, consumer electronics, Digital Music 2.0, Twitter, family guy, american dad

• Digital Britain? Not if it snows…

  I read, watched and shook my head in utter shock and despair at the way the Britain “coped” with the recent and continued snow falls of yesterday and today. I think that looking at the way the current infrastructure is set up – no matter if its snow, Read More... Posted 03 February 2009 10:50 by Derek.Dunlop | 2 Comments Filed under: community, Diary Of A Madman, digital media, facebook, data integration, business tools, business intelligence, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, business vision, business strategy, Digital Britain 2009, Twitter, Snow UK, Daily Mirror