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Hollywood tried this with iTunes and failed miserably. There is no data to suggest that when consumers can’t use their favorite online media service for specific content that they abandon it altogether and flock to a studio or label branded alternative, what happens is that they simply stop watching or listening that label or studio [...]
A few years ago I wrote about the now discredited link between cell phone signals and honeybee colony collapse disorder. Here’s an interesting followup on what the latest research is indicating. The growing consensus among researchers is that multiple factors such as poor nutrition and exposure to pesticides can interact to weaken colonies and make [...]
I’ve been curious about the Financial Times’ news search service, called NewsSift, because it promises to leverage the substantial amount of metadata about financial news held by the FT for a pseudo semantic search experience. In other words, better targeting and categorization about news stories. So I fired up the browser and headed on over [...]