http://meownewsletter.com Multimedia Ecosystem Opportunity Watch Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:44:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with netomat HubSubscribe with Flurry The segmentation of the Facebook 'friend space' is about to happen, friends will be chosen to play a role in influencing one's life and choices.  You have about two weeks to decide how you want to be positioned. I was trying hard to understand what is behind the recent Facebook home ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MeowBlog/~3/MYPZAfrMdxc/ http://meownewsletter.com/2009/03/21/friend-segmentation-a-new-facebook-battle-skill/ My former colleague from Macromedia, Laurent Sellier, just launched yesterday the Kindle i-Phone app.  This and the new Kindle (which I got last week) show the direction where Amazon is going with their core offering in books and digital media:  it is a full-fledged monetization platform for creatives of the ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MeowBlog/~3/HzqV0xQ66Bk/ http://meownewsletter.com/2009/03/05/amazon-walled-garden-gets-more-compelling/ That Bob Dylan analogy seems appropriate...  I recall sometime in 2003 I visited Nokia's application store for the US, run by some obscure e-commerce service provider in Eden Prairie, Illinois.  One of the ten offered business productivity applications was titled 'Biblical Quotes'.  In a subsequent conversation the then-head of Forum ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MeowBlog/~3/xJxi7-D7Okw/ http://meownewsletter.com/2009/02/16/slow-train-coming-nokia-releases-ovi-store/ Salsa, cumbia, son, vallenato, merengue, bachata,... Learning the salsa culture in the background while working and figuring out the most effective and cost-effective way to do it.  As a Mac person I try out the iTunes first. Obviously it is useless - iTunes radio is the only tool for some passive ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MeowBlog/~3/JOiE4Y4ONBo/ http://meownewsletter.com/2009/01/18/music-discovery-pandora-rocks/ That's what we Finns have become.  Finns who once used to be famous for keeping the silence in six languages.  Finns who when encountering an elephant in the jungle would go: 'I wonder what he thinks of me?'.  This is now a hotspot for innovation.  People say it is because ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MeowBlog/~3/eg6UyvRwqSs/ http://meownewsletter.com/2008/11/23/getting-ready-for-slush-helsinki-alpha-influencers-in-a-beta-society/ It has been quiet on my blog for the summer but as we passed Labor Day it is time to take up the drum and see how the jungle echoes.  My summer has been actually very busy bringing to the market RealityServer, a collaborative real-time 3D rendering solution from Mental ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MeowBlog/~3/a4sRYJdjDU0/ http://meownewsletter.com/2008/09/02/virtual-worlds-expo-approaching/ We are now 46 hours into the new reality of the new iPhone 3G and how it will change the competitive landscape.  I have conversed with many of my Apple-evangelist friends who always have the latest on the announcement - including rumors - and who are irritatingly sure that Apple ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MeowBlog/~3/hYvXYlsXBlM/ http://meownewsletter.com/2008/06/11/apples-real-opportunity-is-in-financing-post-paid-conversions/ I just wanted to throw my two cents into the mix.  Everyone seems to be wanting to know what Apple will announce later today as if they could not just wait and let it happen.  Well, it will sure give indications on where we are going.  Remember, though, that it ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MeowBlog/~3/kCLIXvA3etw/ http://meownewsletter.com/2008/06/09/ahead-of-apples-announcement/ Today we saw an interesting announcement between Orange and Nokia: the companies are going to integrate their proprietary content services and promote them together.  The co-promotion will be implemented on ten Nokia handsets in Orange's 'signature range'.  This is exactly what Nokia needs to do - move the operators away from ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MeowBlog/~3/6OjjFzyjKcI/ http://meownewsletter.com/2008/05/22/nokia-starts-to-understand-the-bothand-business-logic/ MocoNews today picked up an interesting story on Orange having cut a deal with Facebook and MySpace for free browsing on those sites for their prepaid users.  According to the article, by giving access to those sites for free data cost, Orange is trying to attract more users to their ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MeowBlog/~3/yVdrn0myV_s/ http://meownewsletter.com/2008/04/24/orange-rides-on-the-social-wave/