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Today, Spotify announced it was purchasing The Echo Nest- a Boston based company that knows a lot about music. The Echo Nest has built a team of music specialists, programmers and engineers who know the very soul and code that lies at the heart of music. They also know what we love and how we...
Heather Havrilesky over at the New York Times clearly has nothing but admiration for the new Lego movie for its branding artistry. “In this way, “The Lego Movie” graduates to a new skill level in the game of branding, an approach that’s at once more grandiose and more pernicious than...
Marc Andreessen recently published his bullish take on the future of news and closed his piece by making some suggestions of how news organizations should approach the future. Marc’s list of the qualities required for news organizations to face the future seems worthy of consideration for...
It’s rare that you have a week like this- two maverick disrupters- Facebook and Tesla, release news that they’re taking their revolutionary acts to the next level. The acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook for $19bn knocked us sideways and then came another killer punch; the story that...
What’s interesting and promising about the “internet of things”, is how it’s going to make our current experiences better. While many have complained and ridculed the idea of connecting a refrigerator to the internet by suggesting that it’s a complete waste of time,...
Featured image via Pentagram James Surowiecki’s “Twilight of the Brands” article in the New Yorker earlier this week certainly got me thinking about just how important brands are these days. Surowiecki’s line of argument is that the Internet has opened up a sea of information that’s...
We are all very familiar with the overblown way technology is often portrayed in science fiction movies. These futuristic visions often involve technology’s intrusion into our daily lives via ubiquitous screens of all shapes and sizes. According to Wired, Spike Jonze’s new movie “Her”,...
We are obviously in a time of perpetual change which is probably a good thing for trends decks. They used to be full of stuff that was not always grounded or relevant to the current realities. However, this is not a trends deck, it’s a look back over the past 18 months to see where...
While Target’s loss of 40 million customer records containing credit and debit card information made the headlines of most news organizations today, while deeply embarrassing for Target, I wonder if anyone really cares? The fact is that for the past 5 years, data breeches have been occurring with...