Typical Jobs psych-out chatter, the truth is that Jobs wants to push away more open solutions so that Apple can be the new "choke point" for controlling and producing media. - post by jblossom
Borders finally sees that personalizing customer service is the key to its future and that online services are critical to its success. - post by jblossom
Newspapers still not getting it - again. When are they going to see the light and become the aggregators of record for community content? - post by jblossom
Nature is on a tear with its application of online media best practices. Already under creative commons licensing the genome data is a great example of how freely available data can enhance a title's audience engagement. - post by jblossom
Interesting take on DRM, basically saying that music labels going non-DRM on non-Apple platforms is unfair. See links to Apple news above as Apple tries to trump distribution channels. - post by jblossom
Web 2.0 is discovering the value of interoperability and data standards, which promises to make for a powerful combination. Nifty video. - post by jblossom
Finally an eBook reader with eInk that's about the size of a real book page. But at USD 600 a pop it's likely to be yet another exotic toy. - post by jblossom
"Artist managers, including a group referring to themselves as the Black Hand Gang, after the similarly named pre-World War I Serbian nationalists, are angry."
Hmm, not a good sign when your staff identifies with gangs. No wonder the music industry's in trouble. - post by jblossom
CNN goes with its strong card to develop CNN Money, but the real power is in how it blends content from other TW assets. Still, captive brands like this are not going to grow as quickly as aggregated financial services. - post by jblossom
Another great example of how mining unstructured content and applying semantic technologies are transforming enterprise content services. - post by jblossom
Kudoa to Informa for a well-deserved stock rating, its mix of events, research and publications features the high-value return on investment that professionals are looking for from B2B media services. - post by jblossom
Fitch has always been a leader in online design for credit ratings research, but this may be small comfort as structured finance takes it on the chin. - post by jblossom
