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Thoughts on DT Entering the CDN Game

Deutsche Telekom’s International Carrier Sales & Solution (ICSS) division announced an partnership with Edgecast, a US CDN company. Telecom Ramblings’ Rob Powell wonders why they didn’t acquire Edgecast right away, and here come my 2 cents…

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Innovations in Digital Music

Music Ally has an awesome list of 200 digital music startups from 2008.

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Digital Entertainment Evolution – TiVo Gets It.

TiVo announces YouTube videos on TiVo box, including YouTube’s long awaited API and YouTube Everywhere. In an earlier Whitepaper from October 2007, The Evolution of Digital Entertainment, I pointed to the new ways TiVo needs to align technology, markets,and demographics in order to capitalize on content. It looks like they moved quicker than I thought.

Worldwide IPTV Market Snapshot

By Patrick Pfeffer and Susan Tucker I noticed that the subscriber number for IPTV differ greatly from research company to research company. When I dug a little deeper, I realized that the definitions of what IPTV actually is differs quite a lot: Some include Video-On-Demand (VoD) offerings because they are bundled with IPTV offerings; others [...]

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Why Does The Digital Entertainment Evolution Matter?

This is part of a five part series: 1/The Rise Of The Digital Entertainment Market 2/After The Bubble: A Market Shift 3/The Digital Entertainment Evolution 4/Winners And Losers 5/Why Does The Digital Entertainment Evolution Matter? Digital Entertainment is creating a significant disruption within the industry. Although society’s demand for entertainment and leisure services will continue [...]

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Winners and Losers

This is part of a five part series: 1/The Rise Of The Digital Entertainment Market 2/After The Bubble: A Market Shift 3/The Digital Entertainment Evolution 4/Winners And Losers 5/Why Does The Digital Entertainment Evolution Matter? The Digital Entertainment evolution is still in its infancy. The next 10 years will continue to see rapid changes and [...]

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The Digital Entertainment Evolution

This is part of a five part series: 1/The Rise Of The Digital Entertainment Market 2/After The Bubble: A Market Shift 3/The Digital Entertainment Evolution 4/Winners And Losers 5/Why Does The Digital Entertainment Evolution Matter? The new scenarios that emerged immediately “After the Bubble”, although more successful in alignment of technology, content and markets, were [...]

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After The Bubble: A Market Shift

Craigslist destroyed $50 – $60 mil p.a. in newspaper classified advertising in the San Francisco Bay Area alone; Nielsen SoundScan reports a 20% fall in CD sales in the last 5 years; Netflix is long-tail

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The Rise Of The Digital Entertainment Market

Gutenberg aligns content, market, demographics, and creates basis for digital entertainment; BTX fails, Minitel success; Tivo fails

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Series: The Evolution of Digital Entertainment

Digital Entertainment is changing the way we live. Starting from the early 1990’s, fundamental changes in markets, content and technology have altered the traditional entertainment industry, creating a significant and growing shift in how people interact, socialize, relax, and spend their time – at work and at home. The challenge and opportunity for organizations, from [...]

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