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• 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

• 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

• Amazon Cloud Drive vs Music Industry

  I realized that I haven't been on here since 2010 with a post about how times have changed within Retail where it used to be a big NO having cameras in your store http://tinyurl.com/Madman2010 Since then, I have blogged elsewhere, written papers, produced Read More... Posted 05 April 2011 14:07 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: conchango, digital downloads, apple, digital library, mp3, Amazon, music subscription, retail, music retail, CDs, Pandora, Diary Of A Madman, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, marketing, google, File Sharing, illegal file sharing, MCPS/PRS, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, future of the music industry, Apps Store, the cloud, mobile apps, android, Amazon commerce, iPhone, iPod, Digital Long Tail, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Spotify, Amazon Cloud Drive

• 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 (Just a couple of thoughts to start with…)

  While I applaud any government that has a digital outlook and digital strategy – I also have to look at why it is being produced, for who’s benefit and what the salient points are from it! I am very sceptical around Governments that have “Ministers for Read More... Posted 30 January 2009 17:26 by Derek.Dunlop | 1 Comments Filed under: conchango, digital downloads, digital library, technology, free music, Diary Of A Madman, torrents, movie downloads, digital media, Music Industry, google, Cookie-tracking technology, BBC Television, BBC Radio, BBC, Torrent Freak, P2P, illegal file sharing, Sharing Media, Feargal Sharkey, MCPS/PRS, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, ISP, Internet Service Providers, future of the music industry, the cloud, IPTV, mIPTV, strategy, business strategy, Digital Nutshell, iPlayer, Digital Music 2.0, UK Government Report, Digital Britain 2009

• The Madman @ MidemNet 2009

  Digital Nutshell: Issue 4 – MidemNet 2009 Special ~ Digital Music 2.0 Next stop after Las Vegas (as well as a brief stop over in Gibraltar – full analysis of the Online Gaming industry coming soon…) was onto Cannes and the MidemNet digital Music conference Read More... Posted 23 January 2009 11:31 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: conchango, iTunes, digital downloads, apple, digital library, mp3, multi-channel retailing, online retailers, technology, Longtail, Amazon, free music, retail, universal, music retail, hmv, RIAA, Internet Radio, BPI, Diary Of A Madman, Digital Revolution Movement, traditional high street, tesco, torrents, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, Coldplay, Terra Firma, Guy Hands, brand development, 50 year copyright for sound recordings, Sony, publishing, internet value, myspace, social networks, facebook, google, Cookie-tracking technology, Torrent Freak, File Sharing, P2P, illegal file sharing, PPL, Sharing Media, Teenage Kicks, Feargal Sharkey, MCPS/PRS, digital living, digital media evangelist, ISP, Internet Service Providers, future of the music industry, live nation, Warners, Radiohead, e-commerce, eCommerce, Amazon commerce, AC/DC, Nokia Comes With Music, Digital Long Tail, Digital Media Long Tail, recession, macro distribution, Tips for 2009, business vision, strategy, art of strategy, Atlantic Records, Qtrax, Podcast of a Madman, Digital Nutshell, EMC Consulting EMEA, Midem, MidemNet, MySpace Music, Courtney Holt, Digital Music 2.0

• Digital Media Nutshell (Part 1)

  In a slightly changed format for my Blog and something that I will continue to do bi-weekly is give, in a nutshell, a round up of some of the key stories and developments within the world of Digital Media, Entertainment Retail as well as the Music & Read More... Posted 03 December 2008 15:13 by Derek.Dunlop | 1 Comments Filed under: iTunes, digital downloads, apple, mp3, Play, Amazon, music retail, Diary Of A Madman, tesco, digital media, Terra Firma, Guy Hands, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, ISP, future of the music industry, live nation, Open Source, AC/DC, business strategy, Songbird, DNA, Atlantic Records

• The Long Tail in Digital Media

  I have talked enough about this topic in various blogs, presentations and events. Sometimes I try to be explicit in the reasoning and other times I add it as a point of reference... So The Long Tail - as described throughout by Chris Anderson and others Read More... Posted 20 October 2008 16:35 by Derek.Dunlop | 5 Comments Filed under: conchango, iTunes, DRM, digital downloads, apple, digital library, mp3, technology, Longtail, Amazon, free music, music subscription, retail, universal, music retail, CDs, Last FM, Pandora, Diary Of A Madman, tesco, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, the beatles, File Sharing, P2P, illegal file sharing, Sharing Media, GenY, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, ISP, future of the music industry, Warners, Apps Store, iPhone, iPod, iTouch, Genius, Target, m-commerce, mobile commerce, future of mobile, Nokia, Nokia Comes With Music, Digital Long Tail, Digital Media Long Tail, Mobile Long Tail

• In Rainbows vs Tap Tap

  Looking at the 2 stories that interested me over the last few days - Radiohead - In Rainbow stats and Tap Tap downloads... First Radiohead - in one month October to November in 2007 In Rainbows was downloaded a staggering 2.3 million times across Torrent Read More... Posted 08 August 2008 13:40 by Derek.Dunlop | 1 Comments Filed under: conchango, iTunes, digital downloads, apple, digital library, free music, music subscription, music retail, Pandora, Diary Of A Madman, torrents, movie downloads, digital media, Music Industry, Sony, File Sharing, P2P, illegal file sharing, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, SKY, future of the music industry, Tap Tap, Apps Store, Ninetndo, Radiohead, In Rainbows, Wii, Xbox 360