Michael Stroud
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Spotify: Why a Freemium Model and Social Stickiness Could Soon Deliver It 50M Users
As you learn about new bands, share your favorites and build playlists, your loyalty to the service will grow — certainly more than your loyalty to Walmart, anyway
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Katzenberg: ‘The Bloom Is Off the Rose’ for 3D
“There were unfortunately a lot of people who thought they could capitalize on what was a great, genuine excitement by moviegoers for a new premium experience and just deliver a low-end, crappy version of it,” mogul says at Aspen conference
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20/20 Hindsight on MySpace
For all you media moguls, let’s take a look at MySpace’s worrisome red flags
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What We Learned From Amazon’s Lady Gaga Fiasco
So Amazon might have guessed that pricing Gaga’s new album at $11 less than iTunes might provoke millions of fans to crash its cloud. But that’s not the real news
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Skype Deal: A Way to Keep Microsoft Products Relevant?
Skype already drives users to Outlook contacts or emails
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The Good and Bad News About ePublishing
It’s a boon for writers looking to break into the business. For publishers, well … not such a boon
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Are You Sure You Want to Friend Facebook?
If information is power, we are handing power on an unprecedented scale to a company that wants to sell it marketers
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Where Will Television Be in 2020?
Think bundling, internet-connected and really hi-def
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This Wasn’t a Good Week to Be a TV Network
Hollyblog: The business took two big smacks in the head with Netflix’s purchase of “House of Cards” and the wild success of Time Warner Cable’s new app
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Why Can’t Today’s Media Be as Easy to Play as a CD?
Want to stop people from pirating music, movies and TV shows? Make them as easy to play as a compact disc
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All Hail iPhone 5
The iPad 2 was cool, but many in Silicon Valley are already calling it iPad 1.5, since it really didn’t represent any fundamental advances in technology. The iPhone 5 is a different matter
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The Nintendo 3DS Represents a Seminal Moment for 3D
The game player — rolled out for the U.S. market at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco Wednesday — is the first mass-market hand-held device that shows 3D images without glasses
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