Innovation

Outgrowing Advertising: Multimodal Business Models as a Product Strategy

ICYMI – this whole thing is interesting, but especially see these innovative business models for books and podcasts in China via @a16z

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2019 Trends Report – Innovating with Impact

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iTunes Case: Technological Innovation

Some great points here via @ganeumann

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Technology

How Netflix works: the (hugely simplified) complex stuff that happens every time you hit Play

ICYMI How Netflix uses 100s of microservices.

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Instagram adds walkie-talkie voice messages

You no longer have to strike up a live conversation if you want voice chats on Instagram – the social network has launched walkie-talkie style voice messaging via @engadget

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Google has enlisted NASA to help it prove quantum supremacy within months

ICYMI MT @garysguide Powerful quantum computers could potentially complete mathematical calculations that supercomputers cannot & kickstart market for devices that could crack unbreakable codes, boost AI, improve weather forecasts & model financial systems in exquisite detail.

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Remote Audio Data Podcast Analytics

Remote Audio Data (RAD) is a method for sharing listening metrics from podcast applications straight back to publishers with user privacy via @NPR

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Alexa will be able to tell when your relationship is ending, experts predict

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Creepy Mister Softee Mystery Solved

Meet The Man Who Uses LinkNYC To Freak Out NYers via @Gothamist

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Victorians thought modern technology would make everyone blind

I did not know that original luddites thought that reading books would make you go blind!

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NYPL Celebrates 175th Anniversary of A Christmas Carol with Insta Novels

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Publishing

Twice bitten, thrice shy: Publishers coy about Apple’s latest foray into news

HT @BoSacks Will Apple be able to re-boot the “Netflix for Magazines” – when they failed to be the savior of the industry we thought they were in 2010?

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The ‘Future Book’ Is Here, but It’s Not What We Expected

Very good, long read from @craigmod on book technology – read to the end! It’s still a potato!!

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Towards the Future Book

RT @craigmod Great push from @tcarmody asking BUT WHERE TO NOW? in response to yesterday’s Future Book piece

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Apple just released six audiobooks – celebrity narrations of classics in the public domain – for free

HT @bmetrock Includes The Secret Garden, Frankenstein, The Time Machine, Pride & Prejudice, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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Time Magazine Staffing Up Under New Ownership

The Time magazine website under Salesforce billionaire Marc Benioff now boasts 25 new job openings, 22 of which are in editorial

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Patterson again gives holiday bonuses to book sellers

James Patterson has renewed a most welcome holiday publishing tradition – bonuses for independent bookstore employees

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Tinder and Bumble Are Hungry for Your Love

Even Tinder and Bumble working on content plays.

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New Year’s Eve in Times Square will officially be a celebration of journalism this year

HT @NYTimesPR This year, the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Drop will be ringing in 2019 with the Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom), celebrating journalists and the great work they do around the globe.

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Business

Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, With a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line

For big consumer brands, not being on Amazon is not an option. Campbell’s uses predictive technology to monitor pricing dynamics to adjust sizes, change variety or redesign packaging to ensure products will be profitable enough to stay on Amazon.

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Gates, Bezos Among Billionaires Backing Alphabet Energy Spinoff

Alphabet Inc.’s secretive X moonshot lab is spinning off an energy-storage project with backing from billionaires including Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.

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