Gartner is predicting consumers will store more than 1/3 of their digital content in the cloud by 2016. This is up from anestimated 7 percent in 2011 according to Gartner.
ITIF put together their summer reading list focused on innovation and US competitiveness. See the full list here.
I often come across ideas/companies I like and while I’d like to write about them briefly I don’t always know where I want to begin. To avoid this obvious hurdle, I’m going to start calling them out. I’ll get back to them later with more thoughts when/if I can.
A company/site that caught my attention a few months ago (and has been lingering as an open tab since) is Crowdrise – a fundraising platform.
I’ve written numerous times about the growing importance of curation (see Curation and Discovery, The future of Curation, and Context and Curation). Wedding Snap is a service available as an iPhone and Android that curations photos taken around a single event but from multiple devices into a single location.
The Washington Post recently published a list of books that shaped America. Made me think of writing about books that have shaped American business. Perhaps I’ll follow-up with more rational when I have more time. But here is a start to your summer reading.
The first book that comes to mind is Clay Christensen’s classic – The Innovator’s Dilemma.
Last week I was in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and couldn’t help but be reminded of Barbarians at the Gate at each turn I took in the city.
I’d probably add Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat, Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, Michael Porter’s Competitive Strategy, Stephen Covey’s book, Surowieki’s The Wisdom of Crowds, and a few books from Peter Drucker.
While there is frequent discussion that studios and other rights holders will eventually take their content directly to consumers through over-the-top distribution paths and threaten content distribution platforms, there continues to be a myriad of signs suggesting traditional distribution channels like MSOs will continue to have a major role in content dissemination. Arguably, the tie between MSOs and rights holders is strengthening as many studios develop second-screen approaches that leverage the MSO-customer relationship.
I was in San Francisco this week speaking at and attending the TV of Tomorrow Show. As I typically do, I was scheduled to take the red eye home on Wednesday night. I had a few hours between the end of the conference and my flight so after grabbing dinner at Anchor and Hope, I walked to AT&T Park to watch a few innings of the Astros @ Giants game before heading to SFO for a 10:43PM flight. I had caught the last few innings on the previous night and thought I’d catch a few more before leaving for DC. My tweet at the time sums it well:
Over the last two days I’ve been attending and speaking at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco. One thing said several times is how the “Killer App for TV is TV.” This feels shortsighted to me. In the years before touch and gesture we could have said “the keyboard is the killer input mechanism for computing.” Before MP3 players and digital music we could have said, “audio tapes are the killer media for mix tapes.” Before the DVR we could have said “VCRs are the killer device for recording content.” I don’t like absolute statements that limit the future solely because we haven’t identified or innovated that future yet.
As I mentioned in a recent post, I was catching-up on RyanTatusko’s blog the other night and happened to read his post on nicknames. As a youth baseball coach, it is actually something I think a lot about. Typical with youth baseball, there are a variety of things I think far too long and hard about.
I was catching-up on RyanTatusko’s blog the other night when I read his recent post on games played among minor leaguers. Last year I attended an Orem Owlz’s game where I saw the Owlz playing some iteration of the pre-game ball games he discusses. I think it was likely speedball which he describes as followings: