28 January, 2010
Today, Steve Jobs announced the iPad. A new device from Apple that tries to invent it’s own category. It’s basically a Netbook/E-reader device with a 27 cm. diagonal screen. Some people refer to it as a a juiced-up iPhone. The prices start at $499 for the 16 GB version, but an internet connection other than Wifi will cost you another $130 per year (!).
Design, Screen, Graphics.
The overall look is slick, and it’s wafer thin at about 1,5 cm, but I’m somewhat disappointed it has such a thick border around the screen. Also the screen is Read on…
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22 January, 2010
Today YouTube launched YouTube Music Discovery, basically a music video suggestion tool, although they call it a “Music Discovery Project and Playlist Creation Tool”.
There is a lot of ambition in a name like that, which I will get back to later, but it can best be described as a way to quickly turn YouTube into a video jukebox with an automatically generated, relevant playlist based on one artist. You select, say, Eminem and boom, there is a page with a playlist of 40 music video’s, 10 of which are Eminem clips and 30 of which are by “related” artists.
Taylor Swift, anyone?
On the YouTube disco page you can click one of the suggested artists, or you can enter an artists’ name yourself. Strange enough, the latter feature doesn’t work in a recent Read on…
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18 January, 2010
According to a Dutch study published last month, news users think that within 20 years internet will be the dominant source for news content. Younger respondents think that this will happen faster. TV will be in second place as a source. Newspapers and radio are thought to have faded to mostly insignificant roles in news distribution by 2029.
Losing faith in newspapers.
Of the 13- to 65-year olds 87% claims to use TV as their main source for news today. With significant overlap, 65% mentions internet as a primary source as well. But, according to the study, within 20 years these two should have traded places. By 2029 about 80% of the respondents expects to look for news content on the internet first. 72% expects to still use TV. Newspapers are only mentioned by 37%, down from 59% today. The large majority of respondents does not expect forms of distribution like Twitter and SMS to be still relevant in that timeframe.
Willingness to pay
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