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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

• The Cloud in 2008 (including iCloud ?)

  What is great about running a blog for almost 5 years, is you can look back and see if you were accurate in your thinking and future strategy planning, or not. Back in August 2008, I wrote a couple of pieces around the emerging Cloud trend. Fast forward Read More... Posted 27 June 2011 13:28 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: iTunes, digital downloads, apple, digital library, fairplay, technology, music subscription, Diary Of A Madman, movie downloads, digital media, Music Industry, brand development, microsoft, File Sharing, illegal file sharing, Sharing Media, digital living, digital lifestyle, future of the music industry, Mozilla Labs, software as a service, SaaS, mozilla foundation, mobileMe, the cloud, Live Mesh, Mac, cloudbusting, Marketplace, Steve Jobs, Open Source, iPhone, iPod, iTouch, long term goals, art of strategy, Apple TV, iPlayer, Mobile Me, user experience, Amazon CloudFront, consulting, total customer experience, Spotify, Amazon Cloud Drive, iCloud, consumer champion, cloud

• The Social Revolution and The Social Evolution

  We live in a connected planet - one world, one voice? Perhaps not, but technology has enabled a wider reaching voice, a voice of the previously muted, gagged, censored... but no more. What has technology unleashed? A torrent of people round the world Read More... Posted 24 June 2011 17:03 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: community, technology, planet earth, Diary Of A Madman, torrents, digital media, internet value, social networks, facebook, google, File Sharing, Sharing Media, GenY, digital living, digital lifestyle, ISP, Internet Service Providers, the cloud, Make Tech Easier, mobile apps, mobile, recession, micro distribution, newspapers, Twitter, web technology, tweets, social media etiquette, social media, privacy, network security, hacks, social evolution, anonymous, social revolution

• Banking & Credit Cards: how secure is your data?

  Banks, finance companies and the like are turning their back on the people that matter most - their customers! In a digitally connected and somewhat openly transparent world these companies are still relying on their antiquated networks and processes Read More... Posted 23 June 2011 21:42 by Derek.Dunlop | 1 Comments Filed under: Diary Of A Madman, Sony, dot-com bust, business intelligence, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, business strategy, privacy, online banking, banking security, phishing, banking, retail banking, RSA, email marketing, network security, hacks, data security, Application, A2D2, Design & Development, Architecture

• Time to Reboot or Replatform Britain?

  …or even decide that seeing as the UK Government has hidden the reboot switch – perhaps its now time that old "’Blighty’ switched the whole thing off, brought in some new hardware, OS, software and tools (metaphorically speaking of course this means remove Read More... Posted 07 July 2009 12:04 by Derek.Dunlop | 1 Comments Filed under: Diary Of A Madman, Digital Revolution Movement, digital media, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, Digital Britain 2009, Reboot Britian

• Social Media Networks & Communication Services: When do you engage and How?

  At what point do retailers embrace the social shopping sphere? From reviews, comments, payments, marketing and brand voice, where and how do they begin? There are so many social networks and sites here today gone tomorrow that retailers and brands are  Read More... Posted 03 July 2009 12:29 by Derek.Dunlop | 2 Comments Filed under: community, multi-channel retailing, brand identity, online retailers, retail, Diary Of A Madman, digital media, marketing, Loyalty, brand development, internet value, myspace, social networks, facebook, social shopping, digital living, digital media evangelist, e-commerce, eCommerce, recession retail, strategy, business strategy, Twitter, micro e-commerce, micro, nano commerce, tweets, social media etiquette, social media

• Let’s be careful out there – The world is watching…Social Media Etiquette

  I’ve been concerned about this for a while – and recently I guess certain elements and the stars aligning made me realise that in fact we all must be careful about what we do in the fast moving social media space. We’ve all read and heard stories of potential Read More... Posted 26 March 2009 11:57 by Derek.Dunlop | 2 Comments Filed under: Diary Of A Madman, myspace, facebook, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, Twitter, tweets, social media etiquette, social media, privacy

• Why ITV can’t deliver 21st Century TV

  So is that a statement or is that a question? Either ITV can not deliver a channel in the 21st Century or why can’t they do it? They have Michael Grade at almost £1million per year at the helm – surely he has the vision, experience and balls to shake Read More... Posted 05 March 2009 16:00 by Derek.Dunlop | 4 Comments Filed under: technology, CPA, Diary Of A Madman, digital media, online advertising, CPC, google, Cookie-tracking technology, ad words, google video ads, master data management, BBC Television, Samsung, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, SKY, micro distribution, IPTV, Tips for 2009, strategy, long term goals, business strategy, Digital Britain 2009, 1359, Michael Grade, ITV is to cut 600 jobs, TV advertising, BARB, ITV, Channel 4, Why ITV can’t deliver 21st Century TV

• 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