Gerd Leonhard's Future of Media Open is king presentation is now online

here http://www.mediafuturist.com/2008/05/my-presentation.html download away (pdf and swf)

Online video - where's the new money - applying an old ad model to a new medium (Adage column by David Carson)

A must-read column on Online Video, by David Carson, CEO of heavy.com, over at adage.com. Here are some highlights and comments (but do yourself a ...

The iPhone Attention Vortex - my iPhone experiences so far

I have had my 3G iPhone for about 4 weeks now and it has been an amazing learning experience. No, not just because I was learning how to deal with ...

Beer is now cheaper than gas. Beer 2.0?

well... at least the cheap beer is;)Via Flickr

Are social networks -- continuous partial friendship? read Linda Stone on Continuous Partial Attention

Linda Stone has some good thoughts and timely warning messages on this topic, here. Linda also blogs at the Huffington Post. Quote: "Continuous par...

A new cultural economy: my presentation at the Ars Electronica Symposium in Linz, Austria, Sept 6 2008

This was a really great event - many inspiring speeches and conversations. Update: here is the podcast (MP3), all other MP3 downloads are here Down...

Future Revenues of Creators: Hal Varian: 14 Free business models (via Chris Anderson)

Further to my previous post on The Future Revenues of Content, Chris Anderson's Longtail blog has a timely post that is a perfect fit: Hal Varian: ...

Reminder for iPhone users and other mobile readers: try my new mobile versions (and QR code, too)

I have been using my mobile devices (iPhone, Nokia E61, Nokia Internet Tablet etc) a lot, lately, and really like it when bloggers offer mobile ver...

PDF with my best blog posts from April 2008 to today

A lot of people have asked me to compile what I think are my best posts from this blog... so here they are, starting from April 2008 to today (and ...

Nokia Comes with Music - a 'private' music flat rate and music as the social glue

Nokia has announced that it is launching their Comes with Music (CmW) offering in the UK, Engadget reports. With 2.1 Million tracks from 3 of the 4...

The Attention Economy: be brief and twitter

From Geek and Poke

The Future Revenues for Content Creators: Attention Revenues UP, Copy Revenues DOWN -- get used to it.

Update: download and watch my flash-movie on "Paying with Attention" Download paying_with_attention_vid.swf * 25.1 MB slides with voice-over, will ...

Yochai Benkler Video: Conflicts in Cultural Production (music industry woes explained very succinctly)

Watch this and smile. Yochai rocks, indeed. His new book is here.

How Dell is using Social Media (Youtube Video with Andy Lark, VP Global Marketing)

Dell gets it it seems. Found via thingsdonotchangewechange

A global tidal wave of change: the switch from Push to PULL (RSS increases from 15% to 38% worldwide)

A study by Universal McCann (see my previous post) shows some pretty interesting developments as far as RSS - so far, the single web2.0 tool that h...

Great presentation on Social Media (Universal Mccann International Research Wave 3)

From slideshare: This is the Social Media Research done by Universal Mccann including 17,000 people in 29 countries. My own slideshows are here Uni...

SMS Revenues were $100 Billion in 2007 (bigger than DVD sales, box office, music industry...)

An astounding number, taken from this slideshow on slideshare.net

The Net Neutrality Debate All On One Page

Very good summary: The Net Neutrality Debate All On One Page.

Kevin Kelly: The next 5000 days

Kevin Kelly is amazing - watch this. From http://www.ted.com At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we kn...

The golden age of streaming, moving from the hard-drive to the cloud (Steve Gillmor): ACCESS first, not Copy

TechcrunchIT has a great post on 'the golden age of streaming', written by Steve Gillmor (yes, of the Gillmor Gang) - he always has some very sharp...

P2P Foundation: Does peer production destroy profits?

This is a crucial statement, below: P2P Foundation Does peer production destroy profits? How true: "In my own formulation it says that we now have ...

A favourite quote by Alvin Toffler: Is it more important to be imaginative and insightful then to be one hundred percent right?!?

“In dealing with the future, at least for the purposes at hand, it is more important to be imaginative and insightful then to be one hundred percen...

An iPhone App that really rocks: Instapaper (read bookmarked websites offline, on your iPhone)

While there are many things I really hate about my new iPhone 3G (which is why I am still using my trusted Nokias and SEs and the Blackberry, too ;...

Mobile version of my blog now available (iPhone users rejoice!)

Mofuse now offers a pretty good version of my blog, here - bookmark it for your iPhones and Nokias and Blackberries... and let me know how you like...

BRIC Countries: Mobile IS the Internet (Rising Economies and Web-enabled Phones)

EMarketer presents some good snippets on "Rising Economies and Web Phones". Some snippets Five of the world's 10 largest cities are located in the ...

How to Use Friendfeed for Better PR (via socialTNT) - PR agencies: Stop emailing me!

Good stuff here:: “Chow Down: How to Use Friendfeed for Better PR -- socialTNT. I wish all those PR agencies emailing me stuff all the time would R...

Soon: Widgets on your TV (talk about Changes for the TV Business!)

TV-Widgets are here: Samsung just announced their first series of TVs that will be connected to the Internet, by default (see a demo of Samsung's S...

Cool: YourMinis Widgets: get a widget with my blog posts, with one click

YourMinis rocks. This is their RSS widget displaying my latest blog posts. You can just copy and paste it onto your iGoogle page, blog page or wher...

Book Publishing lessons - Kindle to become a $1.1 Billion business - Making Books 'Liquid' (and soon, flat-rated?)

Businessweek has a good feature called "Book Publishers: Learn From Digg, Yelp—Even Gawker: Book publishing could keep itself vital by taking a pag...

Widgets: The Marketer’s Recession Survival Tool (Michael Jones)

Great post by Michael Jones of UserPlane / AOL - if you want to know about widgets, quickly, read this: Widgets: The Marketer’s Recession Survival ...

What happens once we all are connected, for real? (Announcing Video Blogging)

I have decided to experiment a bit with videoblogging since it's quite easy to do now (yes, with my iMac, keynote and screenflow software) and it's...

New website for my Music 2.0 book (and Amazon has it now, too) - get your dead-tree version now

I have just launched a new website for my 2nd, self-published book, Music 2.0. This new site features some pretty cool widgets that provide auto-up...

More details on Google's free music launch in China

Via Music2Dot0, a few more details on Google's / Top100.cn's free MP3 service in China have emerged. Of course, the site is not available outside o...

I love Miro: free, open source Internet video player that downloads videos from RSS-based channels

I have been using Miro for the past 2 weeks and if you are in the need for lots of videos on specific subjects, and if you don't need to transfer t...

Getting paid with attribution, attention, traffic, reputation: Open Software Copyright Ruling tells us that attention equals money

Linuxinsider has a report on a recent case ruling at U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The judge concluded that open source coders are...

"Have your say" is everywhere now - the 2-way conversations are changing everything.

Everywhere, both online and offline, people are being invited to talk-back, contribute, share, remix, forward, discuss, rate ... what a change from...

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong demos QIK Mobile Streaming

Singapore is amazing. www.Kyte.tv is also well worth looking at.

Rumors of iTunes music subscriptions fly again (The Industry Standard) - Hello Flat Rate here we come

Inching towards the flat rate: Rumors of iTunes music subscriptions fly again | The Industry Standard. "MacDailyNews says the service will be calle...

So what in the world IS a Media Futurist? (I know you've been wanting to know)

I get this question all the time: what do you actually DO? What do people want from a 'Media Futurist'? What do you speak about? So - here are some...

ReadWriteWeb launches Enterprise 2.0 channel (and there's lots to learn here)

Bernard Lunn over at ReadWriteWeb (gotta love their logo!!) has a must-read post on Enterprise2.0. Be sure to read the whole thing, but here are so...

The big challenge of the Internet: having to make CHOICES (P. Drucker)

“The most important event [in recent history] is not technology or the Internet. It is.. for the first time.. substantial and rapidly growing numbe...

Meet me at the MobileMonday Switzerland Kickoff Event August 27 in Zurich

Link: Upcoming Events | MobileMonday Switzerland. When: August 27th 2008 17:00-18:00 CET Where: SuisseEMEX’08 (Startup Park) Some free tickets are ...

Update on Muxtape: their message translated

Unfortunately I think this will be true.

Trends from the 2008 Mobile World Congress (Accenture Report): customer centric convergence

Accenture has been publishing some pretty good reports lately, the latest one has a review of the 2008 3GSM show and the most essential trends from...

Muxtape is dead? or "sorting out problems with the RIAA"

Muxtape was another service that allowed people to upload and share streaming versions of their music library (10 tracks max I think). Cool idea, n...

brand tags: see what people THINK a brand is

Link: brand tags. Says Noah Brier (Founder): "The basic idea of this site is that a brand exists entirely in people's heads. Therefore, whatever it...

Social Networks Get Down to Business (eMarketer) - Mixing social life and business at the digital water coolers

Link: Social Networks Get Down to Business - eMarketer. Yes - business and socializing DO mix, even more so on the Net then in real life. ""With th...

Key News Audiences Now Blend Online and Traditional Sources (Print news declines while online news grows in the U.S.)

Good read: Overview: Key News Audiences Now Blend Online and Traditional Sources.

Google's free Music in China (told you so?)

From: TelecomTV- News: "Google has launched a free music search service in China. The pilot program sifts through licensed tunes hosted by mainland...

Sharing: The biggest challenge for the Content and Media Industries

This is a new video in my GerdTube series: The technology-fueled 'Culture of Participation and Sharing' is now changing the content and media indus...

In a crowded world, relevance matters more than mere volume

New Lifestreaming page on my blog (what's the difference to blogging?)

I have been looking at the difference between Lifestreaming / Lifecasting and Blogging for a while, and have just now launched a Lifestreaming Page...

Mark Malaro Video with web technology expert Mark Pesce

Fascinating conversation with technology expert, consultant, teacher and author Mark Pesce. Pesce recently spoke at the Personal Democracy Forum in...

Worst office freak ever (funny video: serious case of office-anger)

Patry Ends Copyright Blog: The Current State of Copyright Law is too depressing

Read this: The Patry Copyright Blog: End of the Blog. Says he: "It is profoundly depressing, after 26 years full-time in a field I love, to be a co...

Ars Electronica FESTIVAL: A new cultural economy (meet me there)

Meet me here, Sept 5 & 6, in Linz, Austria: Ars Electronica FESTIVAL. This should be a great event, and I am delighted to be able to contribute! "T...

The Permission Problem & the Anti-Commons (via James Surowiecki in The New Yorker)

Cross-posted from my The End of Control blog Surowiecki, famed author of 'The Wisdom of Crowds' (which is a great read btw), has published a column...

The Downloader (UK) interview with Gerd Leonhard: my fav year in music is... 2012

A good read for a recent interview with me in The Downloader. "Q: If you could assemble all the key music industry players in one place and set the...

Short Videos, TV and the Web (emarketer)

Emarketer has a good report here; if anything it's a bit US-centric of course but still worth a read. Here are some high-lights: "Good news for vid...

An anthropological introduction to Youtube (great video!) Dr. Michael Wesch

Via Jonathan Marks. A Kansas State University working group led by Dr. Michael Wesch dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digi...

Is Google a Media Company? - Blogrunner

I love the new way the NYT/ Blogrunner mixes the NYT's content and blog content together on this page - great concept... and lots of good reads her...

Faster Future: Publishing possibilities now and beyond: 17 lessons for the new marketing

Great stuff from David Cushman: Faster Future: Publishing possibilities now and beyond: 17 lessons for the new marketing. My fav: "Recording [note:...

Advertising 5.0: Who Will You Be? - Advertising Age - Small Agency Diary

Good read: Advertising 5.0: Who Will You Be? - Advertising Age - Small Agency Diary.

Avenue A Razorfish 2008 Digital Outlook Report (via Guy Kawasaki)

Guy Kawasaki always has the best morsels of wisdom for us. Here he comments on the Avenue A Razorfish 2008 Digital Outlook Report which can be down...

Gerd Leonhard at Google Tech Talk (London, July 2008): The Future of Advertising, Branding, Media and Communications

I held this talk at Google London, on July 11, 2008. More details here. 63 minutes only ;) Update: download video file 64MP mpeg4 Topics: "The Medi...

Someone published a short video excerpt taken from my keynote speech at the 2008 Effie Awards in Athens

here on Youtube. More on this event and my keynote on "The Future of Advertising, Branding and Media" here

Music industry ‘should embrace illegal websites’ (FT)

Link: FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - Music industry ‘should embrace illegal websites’. Best: "Record companies should ask themselves: “Wha...

Famous for Being Famous: Julia Allison, queen (or XXX?) of self-promotion

Wired has a great story on Julia Allison's hyper-self promotional use of the Net - if you are interested in the latest Zeitgeist Trends... check it...

The Future Role of Telecoms: Content, Service AND Data Pipes

1 picture... 1000 words

Wired Celebrity Meter: I am 1/20th as famous as Obama!

Wired has a trendy gizmo here: "Are You Internet Famous? Use the Wired Celebrity Meter to find out how big a deal you really are. Our algorithm wil...

Favtape: Full Playback For Your Favorite Last.fm And Pandora Songs

Another that blows the rules out of the water: Favtape: Full Playback For Your Favorite Last.fm And Pandora Songs. Techcrunch: "Today sees the laun...

European Parliament says "no" to disconnecting P2P users

On the 3 strikes+out concept... no way, BPI et al, says the EU: European Parliament says "no" to disconnecting P2P users. "Parliament "want to stri...

Be an expert on anything (Steven Colbert)

Wired has a really funny feature by Steven Colbert, here: how to be an expert on everything. This is a very good fit for a Futurist ;) so here are ...

29 business models for games (and... other digital content) David Perry (Acclaim)

This column comes via the Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog, and David Perry of Acclaim Games, and it's a good read, because it describes how digita...

ArtistshouseMusic Videos: 2500 clips on the Music Industry, Copyright, Marketing etc

Great resource: AH Video Page - ArtistshouseMusic. Their Youtube channel is here, Video Example below

What's next for the New York Times: how about Widgets, iPhone Apps, APIs, Syndication, Twitter

Good read from the Silicon Alley Insider here: "The New York Times, like all U.S. newspapers, will eventually need to figure out how to make enough...

Content Commerce 2.0: sharing defies the laws of nature?

Just ran across this on Paid Content back from June 2006 (!) (MPAA's) Glickman goes to another extreme, conflating sharing with giving away everyth...

Mobile 2.0 (Rudy De Waele at Plugg)

Nice slide by Rudy De Waele, the complete slideshow is here

Print Troubles and Advertising Shifts (eMarketer on local ads and newspapers)

Link: Can Local Web Ads Save Newspapers? - eMarketer. "Although two-thirds of Internet users surveyed in July 2008 said they still used print newsp...

Peter Gabriel Video on the state of the music industry

Thanks to Jonathan Marks for the link. Download my Music 2.0 slideshow if you need more food for thought ;) Music 2.0: a web native Music Industry,...

Catching the Next Wave of Innovation (Accenture Interview with Vince Cerf)

Read: Catching the Next Wave of Innovation. The Internet's ability to enable collaboration will be the key to breakthrough innovation, says this in...

Great way to track the buzz on Twitter: Summize

Try this Summize search on "The Future of Media": "future of media" - Summize.

Webified Desktop Apps vs Browser-based Apps (via ReadWriteWeb)

Good overview and list of startups here: Webified Desktop Apps vs Browser-based Apps - ReadWriteWeb. "More and more applications these days are bei...

The End of Control - a new cultural economy?

I was invited to speak at this year's Ars Electronica Event in Linz, Austria, and to contribute to the 'New Cultural Economy' Symposium. I liked th...

The abbreviation of everything - my comment on The Immediate Media Age (GigaOM)

Om Malik writes: The Immediate Media Age: Of Broadband & Blogs - GigaOM. "Our whole lives are about doing more in less time, trying to cram everyth...

The Future of Media - Presentation at Google London

This is an excerpt with most of the slides from the "Future of Media" talk I gave at the Google London office today; the video should be available ...

Press the panic button - The Guardian on the State of Newspaper Advertising

As usual, the Guardian has good report here: Press the panic button | Media | The Guardian. "If you are a retailer or a car manufacturer or a finan...

Using Wordle.net to visualize my strongest keywords

In a nutshell, this is what I do... according to Wordle (which turns text into visualized tags) - see the page on Wordle

This is what is staring in the face of the music industry

Download or see the large version at my Flickr page

Cory Doctorow on 3 Strikes and you're out, the Olivennes proposal, and the IFPI - ISP going-ons

Cory Doctorow has a great response to the IFPI's ongoing quest of getting the ISPs to threaten their users with disconnection if they go off the de...

Amazon Video Widget - with ads for books

Amazon has just added Video Widgets that allow you to upload your own videos and the insert small ads for Amazon products (books etc). The ad integ...

The Web knows How - what is the impact on the Future of Education?

Good read in the Ecommerce Times, today, on The Web knows How. "Just about any practical task -- from changing a motorcycle's oil filter to the pro...

My best Music2.0 presentation EVER (Slideshare Contest)

This Music2.0 presentation, below, is probably the best I ever came up with. You can download it via Slideshare, of course, and if you like it you ...

The Future of Social Media: Engage or be Tivo'ed (new slideshow on the Future of Advertising and Marketing) *Vote for me

Slideshare just lauched a competition for the best presentation and naturally I am throwing my hat in ;). Check out this new slideshow, below, and ...

Will France Introduce the Digital Guillotine in Europe? (La Quadrature du Net questions 3 strikes + out concept)

A good overview here: Will France Introduce the Digital Guillotine in Europe? | La Quadrature du Net. "In contrast to the French solution, the Swed...

The 5 Creepiest Advertising Techniques of the (Near) Future | Cracked.com

This is a must read - funny, scary and inspiring at the same time: The 5 Creepiest Advertising Techniques of the (Near) Future | Cracked.com.

Trendwatching.com on the "Free Love" trend: the War for Attention, and how the Net seems to drive pricing for 'content' towards zero

Trendwatching just released a hot new report here. Some excerpts and comments: According to Trendwatching, the rise of FREE LOVE can be attributed ...

Meet me at Ars Electronica 2008: Symposium on the Limits of Intellectual Property

Joichi Ito and the Ars Electronica people have invited me to join them for this conference that is promising to be very unique. I will be giving a ...

The Future of Radio (Slideshare presentation by Gerd Leonhard)

This is a presentation I have it late 2007 but it is still very much to-the-point and relevant. Slideshare.net rocks, btw - it's really the Youtube...

Muxtape: I have uploaded 12 podcasts on various topics

Muxtape is pretty interesting, and perfectly 'legal' for streaming audio podcasts;) Check out my Future of Media talks here (sorry no widgets yet) ...

Advertising 2.0: Free Content in Return for Attention (and Ads = Content, too)

Well, this is of course hardly new, as such, just more pronounced. The Future of Advertising will see advertisers (and brands, directly) providing ...

Web 2.0 and all that Noise (new video)

Web 1.0 was about GETTING Noise. Web 2.0 is (was) about MAKING Noise. Web 3.0 is about FILTERING Noise. Web 4.0 (ouch) is about SMART NOISE (or... ...

Steve Ballmer on The Future of Media and Advertising

Here is his bottom line from the Washington Post Interviews " There will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP ...

The Device that was the Phone (via Always on)

Via AlwaysOn Trend #2: The device that used to be a phone. Your mobile phone will turn into a mainstream computer. Beyond just e-mail and web acces...

Attention Surplus moving from TV to the Web (Clay Shirky remix)

2015 Predictions: Social Shopping

I found this very interesting chart on Shopping Innovations on KenRadio.com (I think). Imagine shopping via / on your favorite social network, peop...

The Future of Copyright: Copyright 2.0 (new video)

After I held a presentation on this subject, a few days ago, I decided I may as well make a short video out of the slides, so here it is. I am usin...

Project Make McCain Exciting: Gray Ambition

Via Twitter and Buzzfeed comes this nice remix: "As part of Stephen Colbert’s “Make McCain Exciting” contest, one YouTube user has masterfully mash...

My email newsletter is being discontinued - 100% PULL from now on

Call it connecting, befriending, following, subscribing, feeding - I have decided to switch from my good old email newsletter (which has 1000s of p...

RSA Video: Matt Mason on Piracy / The Pirates Dilemma (video)

Matt Mason's book "The Pirate's Dilemma" is a great read; this video, filmed at the RSA, summarizes a lot of his key points and is well worth watch...

What your future really looks like: The Digital Home of 2013 | The Industry Standard

Don Reisinger has a bunch of very powerful predictions for the future of the digital home: What your future really looks like: The Digital Home of ...

World Mosaic Created From 1001 Web 2.0 Logos

Interesting mosaic of Web2.0 logos though a bit hard to read: World Mosaic Created From 1001 Web 2.0 Logos.

How Can a CD Be Free?

From Chris Anderson / Wired: How Can a CD Be Free?. He says: "A) Prince spurred ticket sales. Strictly speaking, the artist lost money on the deal....

Oronjo resources on 'Selling Content"

Some good resources and links here: Oronjo > knowledge base. "70% of Americans wants to pay money to skip advertising“According to Yankelovich rese...

HearWhere - find live music anywhere (cool mashup)

Take Google Maps + Myspace Music Streams and make a live-concert guide : HearWhere - find live music anywhere. Widget-it, too: Get the hearWhere.co...

TwitterPoster: who has the most followers

Good way to see who is doing what on Twitter - but is this a race to the top, or the bottom? TwitterPoster. Btw - my DailyWisdoms Tweets are here, ...

David Cushman: we are all publishers now

Good slideshow from David Cushman | View | Upload your own

The Accenture Global Content Study 2008: Perspectives on the Future for Content Providers

A good read for anyone in the Content Business: The Accenture Global Content Study 2008: Perspectives on the Future for Content Providers.

Copyright 2.0 Presentation at Kristiansand Norway Music Industry Think Tank

I am currently in Kristiansand Norway, taking part in a think-tank event organized by Peter Jenner (of the IMMF) on the subject of the Digital Flat...

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Great essay by Nick Carr: Is Google Making Us Stupid? I don't agree with some of the gloom in here, but this is all very good stuff to digest. Some...

Music consumption statistics | IT Facts | ZDNet.com

Very interesting stats here: Music consumption statistics | IT Facts | ZDNet.com. Most interesting: prevalence of copying. I think this said it all...

PC Encroaching On TV’s Dominance In Share Of Screen Time With Digital Video Users

Link via Steve Rubel's Twitter: PC Encroaching On TV’s Dominance In Share Of Screen Time With Digital Video Users. TAKE NOTE: "While TV’s place as ...

The Future of Social Media - my presentation at Blogres in Slovenia, June 20, 2008

I had the great pleasure of speaking at Blogres in Ljubljana, Slovenia today, on the subject of Social Media. Here is the pdf (7.6 MB): Future_of_s...

Billy Bragg says: Internet Music needs to be licensed like... Radio

I like Billy ;) Interview: Billy Bragg. "Much more clever would be to find another revenue stream other than the consumer," he said, citing the pos...

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody (Clay Shirky)

Clay Shirky's got some good wisdoms here:: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody. "And it's only now, as we're waking up from ...

Norway's NetCom Launches Unlimited Free Music Trial

More music flat rate launches: Norway's NetCom Launches Unlimited Free Music Trial. Soon: no DRM, unlimited downloading, any and all devices.

Ashvertising in Brussels (via Springwise)

Seems like a great idea to me: Springwise Ashverting 18 June 2008. "As the EU's restaurants, bars and clubs gradually become smoke-free, cigarette ...

Funny cartoon on the Canadian DMCA debate

via Adrian Dusanowskyj at Carleton University in Ottawa and this site

Good slideshow on Myspace (Cannes Lion presentation)

Via Slideshare - they rock! (PPT from Jay Steven workshop on Cannes Lions 2008) | View | Upload your own

A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution - Umair Haque

Great stuff from Umair Haque (Havas Media Lab) A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution - Umair Haque. High-lights: Hypercapitalism causes a ...

My Digital Music 2.0 Presentation (Barcelona, June 17, 2008)

The Digital Music2.0 event is currently being held in Barcelona, one of my favorite places in the world. I held a presentation called Music2.0 (who...

The Fear of Change - and why we must get wet if we want to learn how to swim!

I am very fortunate to meet a lot of interesting and open people at my various keynote speeches and think-tank engagements - from 20-year old, hung...

MTV Asia report says users want telcos to work closer with the labels

From Ian Stewart at MTV Asia, via slideshare

Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check says GigaOM

See Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check - GigaOM. eMarketer also calculated revenue per unique visitor for some of the big five: * Google: $65.55...

Streaming music services | Digital Renaissance

Good lost: Streaming music services | Digital Renaissance.

Netvibes Rocks - my new personal page is live (and... PersonalEPG anyone?)

I have been setting up my personal Netvibes page - these tools really rock - get it all in one place. Now, let's add music / video / TV / films / b...

What can you do with 1500 hard-drives (funny video)

Yep... storage is basically free now:)

State of the Chinese Blogosphere (via Edelmann blog)

Good short summary here: Richard Edelman - 6 A.M.: State of the Chinese Blogosphere. My favorite quote: "Mr. Zhou suggested that “in a world where ...

Everyone suddenly wants to be your friend (emarketer on social network spam issues)

A good read on the privacy and spam debate on social networks just came in via EMarketer, here. I think Privacy and 'Digital Obesity' (i.e. eating ...

Public Brain Lab (Nikos Drandakis) Audio Interview with Gerd Leonhard (on Advertising and Media Trends)

After my presentation at this year's greek Effie awards I did an interview with Nikos Drandakis and his colleague Betty Tsakarestou from Public Bra...

Facebook No Longer The Second Largest Social Network (#1 now!)

Via Twitter and Techcrunch: Facebook No Longer The Second Largest Social Network. I must admit, I am very fond of Facebook myself;)

More free PDFs with excerpts from my new Music2.0 book

A lot of people have already downloaded the PDF of my new book, Music2.0, in its entirety (217 pages), via the Music2.0 book website. It's availabl...

Content Marketing - Brands are Content

Good read in Foliomag. Notable: "Corporations are the new content providers, jumping with both feet into the province once deemed the sacred right ...

Orange Music Max.... Music Like Water within reach?

Related: VIPeers: Orange Music Downloads Through the Media Player Developed by zSlide. The new Orange Musique Max is another step in the "Music Lik...

YouTube - The Future of Online Video at Zeitgeist Europe 2008

Link: YouTube - The Future of Online Video at Zeitgeist Europe 2008. Very good stuff in here A discussion panel [Ashley Highfield, Christian Vollma...

Effie Awards Greece 2008: my presentations on the Future of Advertising, Branding and Marketing

I was invited to present at this year's Effie awards in Athens Greece (this the annual convention and awards show of the Greek advertising and comm...

Warner Music (WMG) Pulls Out Of Last.fm (CBS) - wow!

I just read this news on Silicon Alley Insider, and the NYT Bits blog (belatedly): Warner Music Group has pulled their music off the on-demand part...

Taking a break is a FEATURE now (Gmail Labs offers TakeABreak option) - the value of silence!

GMail just launched a bunch of new features which I tried out today. The most revealing one is the new Take A Break option which effectively remove...

Gerd Leonhard: “Streaming music is the new radio”

Link: Gerd Leonhard: “Streaming music is the new radio”.

MSFT's Ballmer on The Future of Print and Advertising (video)

Via Techcrunch. I don't quite agree - I think there will be some media that will continue to be delivered in physical form - it all depends on how ...

Future of Copyright & Media: My presentation at the International Economic Forum in St Petersburg, Russia (June 6, 2008)

I had the great pleasure and honor to be invited to this years International Economic Forum in St Petersburg, Russia, on June 6 and 7. St Petersbur...

IT Conversations: Tech Nation: Gerd Leonhard on Music2.0 and the Future of Music (interviewed by Moira Gunn)

During my last trip to San Francisco I met with Moira Gunn over at Technation (KQED) and we had another really good session - always fun to talk to...

Two Notes Ahead Interviews Gerd Leonhard (The Man, The Entrepreneur, The Futurist...)

This interview with Aidan Nulman was fun, and you can read it here (and there's a PDF with the entire conversation, as well). Excerpts: 1) When ask...

John Naisbitt: Drowning in information and starving for knowledge

Good video

How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

Via the Techcrunch newsletter: How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com. An unlikely source of good web intel but... give it a ...

Lefsetz Letter: McGuinness’ Idiocy (policing the Internet to keep the labels in the money?)

Finally, Bob Lefsetz weighs in on Paul Mc Guinness "internet police state" speech at midem 2008: Lefsetz Letter ? Blog Archive ? McGuinness’ Idiocy...

gleonhard.muxtape.com: great new way to share my audio pontifications

Link: gleonhard.muxtape.com. Muxtape Rocks. Plain. Easy. Probably to be sued soon (not because of MY MP3s though;))) Here is the Technorati widget ...

Pics and audio from Chinwag Live: Micro Media Maze (Gerd Leonhard: Control equals money or Trust equals money??)

Good stuff here: Pics and audio from Chinwag Live: Micro Media Maze | Chinwag - the UK's leading community media company for the new media industry...

Hilarious video: Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past (Blockbuster)

Via Jonathan Marks: Blockbuster as Historical Site. 'where customers exchanged money for the short term use of videos in an archaic system called '...

My presentation at the Austrian Music Enquete in Vienna (today), in German: Herausforderung durch Strukturwandel

Talk about old meets new - some very interesting clashes of viewpoints at this event in Vienna, today. Download gerd_leonhard_austria_musik_enquete...

trendwatching.com: Great Monthly Briefings on Trends

great stuff here, now with PDFs too: trendwatching.com Previous Monthly Briefings.

Typepad categories were broken - please check this post to find all my categories until this is fixed

*Update: looks like they fixed it! For the past few days I have been fighting with a pretty annoying Typepad bug that renders most of my best categ...

Google's Advice On How Brands Can Leverage Social Media (Google Video)

Vince Cerf says: "The way people filter their information is by listening to other people... get your brand in front of someone that authority in t...

Worried about Privacy? Facebook? Watch this video...

Good food for thought: Video: does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook? I do think Privacy is one of the biggest issues for the futur...

No, I will not put ads into my RSS feeds!

Feedburner has just enabled its users to insert Google Adsense-powered Ads in their feeds (which includes mine;). Ads can now be automatically put ...

Jumpstarting the Mobile Internet - eMarketer

Some good stats here: Jumpstarting the Mobile Internet - eMarketer.

A couple of important keywords that keep popping up in my speeches (and everywhere else)

I have done 10 or so presentations and speeches in the past 4 weeks, all over the place and on many different topics, but these key subjects, below...

Study: Imeem Unseats Yahoo as Top U.S. Music-Streaming Site (Updated) | Listening Post from Wired.com

Very good review of the Streaming Music sector: Study: Imeem Unseats Yahoo as Top U.S. Music-Streaming Site (Updated) | Listening Post from Wired.c...

The Struggles of France's Three Strikes Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation

This is a must read of you want to know what's happening in France as far as ISP liability for content is concerned - this sounds like Fiction but ...

Techdirt: Rolling Stone Recognizes The Future Of Music: Forget The CD, Sell Other Stuff

Fuel the fire:: Techdirt: Rolling Stone Recognizes The Future Of Music: Forget The CD, Sell Other Stuff. "Of course, what may be most amusing, is t...

The Flat Rate for Digital Music is inevitable

2. Musik Enquete Austria

On June 3rd, I will be in Vienna speaking to the National Assembly about Copyright and the Internet: 2/VER | Tagesordnung der 2. Enquete als HTML (...

Youtube: 10 hours of new content uploaded every minute

ouch!

Twing - Search and Discover Communities

A new search engine, focused on forums and communities, looks quite promising: Twing - Search and Discover Communities.

Zukunft von Marketing, Branding und Advertising (in German;)

here (reminder)

Now this is a cool video promoting a new release by Weezer

Wired pointed me this way... cool!

Telcos vs Content Industries: good read via TelecomTV

I just read this column on Telecomtv.com. It nicely outlines the recent proposals of various industry organizations to put more pressure on telcos ...

My presentation on The Future of Advertising and Branding, OMD Client-Day 2008 in Duesseldorf, Germany

This speaking mission was on behalf on Omnicom Media Group and is in German language (great event btw - lots of very smart, very alert and friendly...

The Flat Rate for Digital Music is coming: Google Elbows Into China With Free Music (ECommerce Times)

Take Note!!! E-Commerce News: Music: Google Elbows Into China With Free Music. Some quotes and comments: "The deal would see Google and Top100.cn o...

Marketing2.0: Listen - Broadcast - Pull!

User Generated Music (video)

Interesting new app - got this from their PR people; will give it a try. MusicShake is an online music creation service that provides music composi...

Daily Wisdoms now on my new Twitter Channel

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Who Are The "Digitally Savvy (via ReadWriteWeb)

Interesting report here: Who Are The "Digitally Savvy?" - ReadWriteWeb. US-only, of course, therefore a bit narrow, but still good stuff here.

Via Two Notes Ahead: some good research on "Music Like Water" numbers

Link: “How Much Would We Pay For Music Like Water?” or “Could Music Be A Pure Public Good?” ? Two Notes Ahead. "Gerd Leonhard’s Music Like Water th...

My talk at the Popakademie in Mannheim Germany: Music2.0 (in German language)

Really nice place, the Popakademie in Mannheim, Germany, and a very clued-in audience. Here is the PDF with my presentation (note: this is in GERMA...

Aloha, Mr. Hands: What I would do with EMI’s new music business at FISTFULAYEN

Good read by Ian Rogers former Yahoo Music Man: Aloha, Mr. Hands: What I would do with EMI’s new music business at FISTFULAYEN.

Cisco Telepresence Video Magic: Virtual presence anywhere?

Wow!

Geek Marketing (Tara Hunt)

Good post by Tara Hunt: Geek Marketing | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon. .... how a new ethic is emerging in marketing. This format is more rea...

Ed Peto on New Music Models in China (leapfrogging into Music2.0) - Music2.0 is Asian.

Ed Peto has a good post here. The article was originally written for MusicAlly Here are some high lights and comments: "China never fully adopted t...

Gerd's May 2008 Newsletter: special Music2.0 book discount now extended to my blog readers (buy before June 1 !)

Here is my newsletter for May 2008. If you are so inclined you can subscribe here. First and foremost I am delighted to be able to offer all of my ...

The Review of Network Economics (RNE Journal) - some scientific support for my concepts;)

Martin Geddes from Telco2.0 send me this link, below: The Review of Network Economics, Abstracts. It provides a rather scientific 'support' of my c...

IT Conversations | Media

Listen to these shows on ITConversations... good stuff here: IT Conversations | Media.

Indie music label Fuzz launches Twitter-like music sharing ? VentureBeat

Now here is a useful innovation... will try it: Indie music label Fuzz launches Twitter-like music sharing ? VentureBeat. "Blip, engineered and lau...

TelecomTV: Interview with Alan Bell, EVP and CTO, Paramount Pictures

Interesting video. "Mobile services have resulted in significant new revenue streams for the music industry, and now the motion-picture industry is...

How to Use Social Media for Social Change - ReadWriteWeb

Food for thought here: How to Use Social Media for Social Change - ReadWriteWeb. "Instead of watching Twitter's ups and downs, we the members of th...

Technology News: Handheld Devices: Think Before You Ban: A Handheld Is a Powerful Learning Tool

Link: Technology News: Handheld Devices: Think Before You Ban: A Handheld Is a Powerful Learning Tool.

Tod Machover & Dan Ellsey: Releasing the music in your head (Ted Video)

Great video via http://www.ted.com Tod Machover of MIT's Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression for everyone -- from virtuosi to amat...

TimesMachine - New York Times (way cool way to browse)

Very cool: TimesMachine - New York Times. TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on Septe...

DMW Vlog: Napster COO Chris Allen On The New MP3 Store

Good video with Napster's COO commenting on the recent switch to the MP3 format at Napster: DMW Vlog: Napster COO Chris Allen On The New MP3 Store ...

Future Stories #2: The Future of Telcos - Content & Service Pipes

Download the PDF: gerd_leonhard_future_stories_2_the_future_of_telcos.pdf Traditionally, telecom companies simply offered various types of phone se...

New Twitter feed: daily wisdoms!

I just started a new Twitter 'Channel' here: Twitter / dailywisdoms. This is sort of a microblog that I will use to share some of the many nuggets ...

@ Chinwag: Making big statements with social media | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk

Really nice event I spoke at here in London last night: @ Chinwag: Making big statements with social media | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardi...

New Trust Generators (Advertising that is trusted...?)

Looking at this, we need a new word for 'Advertising' for sure... someone out there have any ideas?

Via Rolling Stone: Rock's New Economy: Making Money When CDs Don't Sell

Some good stories and examples here: Rock's New Economy: Making Money When CDs Don't Sell : Rolling Stone. "While up-and-coming bands may find most...

Blogs Blossom into a Big Business - eMarketer

Good stats here Blogs Blossom into a Big Business - eMarketer.

Gerd Leonhard interviewed in 'Die Zeit' (German language)

I was interviewed by the leading German daily "Die Zeit" a few weeks ago, see this link - there should be a video coming soon, as well. Update: her...

Not much happening in the next 2 weeks... (vacation)

I am going on vacation and blogging isn't part of it ;). So... don't touch that feed just let it simmer! Gerd

The Future of UGC (Futuretalks episode with Glen Hiemstra and Gerd Leonhard)

From Media Conversations User generated content has clearly changed the world. With the explosion of blogs, recordings, and videos, consumers have ...

Cook & Hopkins Social Media Report - 3rd edition: How we stopped worrying and learned to love communications (via Trevor Cook)

This is a great guide if you want to dive into what Social Media means: Corporate Engagement: Cook & Hopkins Social Media Report - 3rd edition. Gre...

Stop Googling Yourself

Funny.. via davefaq

Britannica Online: Free Access for bloggers and web publishers - finally ('feels like free' and still making money?)

I have written about Feels Like Free / FLF a lot. Today, I ran across this column at the newly revived Industry Standard (which I quite like, btw),...

OVGuide: Vlogs, Video Blogs and Video Communities - Featured by OVG

Good resource for Online Video: OVGuide: Vlogs, Video Blogs and Video Communities - Featured by OVG.

Web1.0 to Web4.0: getting noise, making noise, filtering noise and ...SmartNoise?

Update: I just across this illustration on Flickr - fits perfectly!

Andy Kessler: WSJ: The War for the Web (Yahoo, Google, MSFT)

Link: Andy Kessler: WSJ: The War for the Web. Some good quotes here: "These (computing) clouds are multibillion-dollar investments. Google spent $8...

media outlets with the most engaged audiences will thrive... News.com on Topix

Goo read here: Blabatocracy's new mantra: All Jeremiah Wright, All the Time | Coop's Corner : A Blog from Charlie Cooper - CNET News.com. "Tolles o...

GerdTube #2: Videoblog Post on Sharing2.0 (why sharing fuels the net economy...and generates revenues, too)

I just published this video on the new Gerdtube.net videoblog channel Summary: Sharing content online is becoming a major driver of the new media e...

The Future of TV & Online Video (comments on a CNN column)

CNN Online has a pretty good feature on "Is the Future of TV on the Web?" Here are some high-lights and my comments. Update: Geoffrey Long just sen...

Mr Bean Apple Ad

He's the best! Original version (thanks to Jonathan Marks for the hint) Edited version

Video: the Future of Advertising is Video and Rich Media (says eMarketer Analyst)

Paid Search Works but "Doesn't Grab the Heart and Mind," says Analyst David Hallerman ....eMarketer released a report by senior analyst David Halle...

Technology Liberation Front ? Archive ? Media Metrics #6: The Video Revolution

Now here is a very serious read on the Future of Video and TV: Technology Liberation Front ? Archive ? Media Metrics #6: The Video Revolution. Lots...

A Must Read: Future Files: The 5 Trends That Will Shape the Next 50 Years (by Richard Watson)

I just finished reading this really great book. For anyone that is interested in what the future brings this is really a must-read: Amazon.com: Fut...

Music blogs: The new wall of sound (via CNet)

CNet comments on my recent "Future Story - Blogs will be Labels": Music blogs: The new wall of sound | Tech news blog - CNET News.com. "Gerd Leonha...

EconSM '07 Social Media and Music Industry - EconSM - VIDEO

Interesting video here: EconSM '07 Social Media and Music Industry - EconSM - VIDEO. But I do wonder: where are the real LEADERS in the Music Indus...

Gerd Leonhard on Broadband Media Trends (episode # 1 of the new GerdTube series) *using Screenflow

This is the first of a new video series tagged 'Gerdtube', explaining the differences between a narrowband or more or less disconnected world, and ...

NewMusicBox: Interview with Gerd Leonhard: One for the Money, Two for the Show: Gerd Leonhard and Music 2.0

A pretty good and deep interview with me is here, thanks to Molly Sheridan. Her are some juicy bits: About that good old 'Music Like Water' analogy...

IHT: Chief Executives descend on St. Petersburg for economic forum (and guess who'll they see?)

I will be speaking at this event... should be fun (at least.. for me) Chief executives descend on St. Petersburg for economic forum - International...

My presentation at the 2008 Futuresonic Conference in Manchester (May 1 2008): Open is King - The Future of Music & Media

This was a really fun conference - very diverse and very open; met lots of great people there and had some very interesting discussions. I may have...

All together now (Dealscape)

Interesting if somewhat circular story about music widgets and... Sonific: All together now (Dealscape). Some nice quotes about me;) [ignore the sp...

diagonal thoughts on Music like Water

A good blog post (although a bit hard to read due to the colors), summarizing more thoughts on Music20: diagonal thoughts on Music like Water.

The logic of 'Connected Content' - paid in a few different ways

Ted.com video: Yochai Benkler on Social Production

One of the best videos on this topic that I have ever seen - lots of great nuggets here. Law professor Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative pr...

Meet me at Chinwag Live: Micro Media Maze May 20 2008 in London

I will be paneling at this event: Chinwag Live: Micro Media Maze | Chinwag - the UK's leading community media company for the new media industry. "...

Tim Robbins Speech at NAB 2008 (video.. sorta)

Published: April 16, 2008 via (AdAge.com) -- Actor Criticizes Broadcast Industry Focus on The Tawdry and Demeaning: Even as he came on stage to giv...

Wired Interview with Justin Ouellette, The Man Behind Muxtape (nice... but headed towards certain doom?)

Link: Interview: Justin Ouellette, The Man Behind Muxtape | Listening Post from Wired.com. Muxtape is cool (if not an entirely unique concept). Her...

Mary Meeker / Morgan Stanley Internet Trends 2008

| View | Upload your own Good read. Techcrunch has a summary Download the pdf here

RIAA files copyright suit against Project Playlist | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

It was only matter of time - the fig-leaf has been ripped up: RIAA files copyright suit against Project Playlist | Tech news blog - CNET News.com. ...

Music in 2015 - Totally Secure, Really (like... completely) Scarce and So Very Very Valuable (again)

Warning: this is fiction. For now. June 1, 2015 The herculean efforts of the world's most eminent legitimate music rights- and intellectual propert...

Economics of Online Video 3: $5 Net CPM = Keep Day Job* - Silicon Alley Insider

Interesting comment on the whole issue of 'how to make $$ on social media': Economics of Online Video 3: $5 Net CPM = Keep Day Job* - Silicon Alley...

Broadband2.0 (via Wired) - and then: Content2.0 and Copyright2.0...?

Wired has a good feature on what they call, of course - but hopefully with some mocking intentions - Broadband2.0. As I have said many times before...

mediatedcultures.net -'The Machine is us' Video (update.. and others great vids

Some great videos here: mediatedcultures.net @ kansas state university. mediatedcultures.net @ kansas state university home of the digital ethnogra...

Proposing a new definition of "Content"

No... I will NOT call this Content2.0. Sorry.

World Internet Usage Statistics News and Population Stats

If you're into stats you'll like these: World Internet Usage Statistics News and Population Stats.

From the Network to the Networked

This is a key trend in digital media: the importance of being a big, centralized, dominating Network shrinks, and the importance of being NETWORKED...

Via Telecom TV China's Web user-base now bigger than the US

Not surprising but good to know more: TelecomTV - TelecomTV One - News. New figures show that at the end of February this year China's online popul...

UNCTAD.ORG: download The Creative Economy Report

This should be a pretty good read: UNCTAD.ORG >> The Creative Economy Report >> Creative Economy Report 2008: The challenge of assessing the creati...

The Future Of Music: Like Water, Feels Free, Ubiquitous - Transcription via Robin Good

The amazing Robin Good has transcribed my entire Music2.0 video and published the text on his site: The Future Of Music: Like Water, Feels Free, Ub...

Sonific Calls It Quits, Citing Music Licensing Issues | Listening Post from Wired.com

Nice post fro Eliot van Buskirk - he gets it: Sonific Calls It Quits, Citing Music Licensing Issues | Listening Post from Wired.com.

The original David Bowie quote on "Music Like Water"

since you asked... this is where I (and Dave) got it!

Social Music List - All the best Social Music sites listed

Pretty good list of Social Music sites: Social Music List - All the best Social Music sites listed.

Brands Partner With Consumers Online - eMarketer

Good read from eMarketer: Brands Partner With Consumers Online - eMarketer. "Advertising: Major consumer brands such as American Apparel, Frito-Lay...

No One Likes The Music Labels - Who Cares - says Peter Kafka

Peter is a very sharp writer - read this one: No One Likes The Music Labels. Who Cares? - Silicon Alley Insider. "The number of UK consumers who sa...

In music, the LongTail still won't work without a head and a body: Announcing big changes at Sonific (temporarily going offline on May 1)

My music widget startup, Sonific, just announced that it is going offline on May 1. Below are some snippets from my announcement, all other details...

Time to rethink copyright...? (Shane Richmond / Telegraph)

A good read here Read my related EndofControl essays here The column "Copyright in the Age of Uncontrolled Distribution" is here

Copyright law should distinguish between commercial and cultural uses (Cory Doctorow in the Guardian)

Cory Doctorow (one of my favorite writers - his recent book "Overclocked" is a must-read if you like science fiction that is not-very-much-fiction-...

??????????????Gerd Leonhard?“Pay What You Want”????????? - P2P????????@???

Some Japanese Music2.0 Book coverage (I sure hope it's good;): ??????????????Gerd Leonhard?“Pay What...

YouTube - Eric Schmidt, Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0

Good video - Eric rocks, as usual: YouTube - Eric Schmidt, Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0.

Imagine how much 'file sharing' goes on here (funny Japanese commuter train video)

Talk about 'being tight'!

Googolopoly (nice visualization via Techcrunch and Box.net)

Link: Googolopoly. Image via Box.net They have cooked up a game to illustrate how Google is taking over the Goouniverse... take a look

The Guru of Google : Rolling Stone

Good read: The Guru of Google : Rolling Stone. "He hung with Jerry Garcia, dropped acid with Wavy Gravy and helped wipe out smallpox in India. Is D...

Good video on Friendfeed, online voyeurism and the (non)-sense of all of it (via AlwaysOn)

A VC: It's A Blog, No It's A Radio Station, Wait It's Something Altogther New

Via Fred Wilson: A VC: It's A Blog, No It's A Radio Station, Wait It's Something Altogther New. "CBS Radio re-launched their legendary NY rock radi...

Looks pretty Cool: Alert Thingy (A desktop app for FriendFeed.com)

If you like Friendfeed check this out: Alert Thingy: A desktop app for FriendFeed.com. I am gleonhard on friendfeed btw

Music 2.0: Muziek als water - Frankwatching (Music20 in Dutch;)

Music2.0 / Music Like Water explained in Dutch (via Jonathan Marks) Music 2.0: Muziek als water - Frankwatching.

New video: "Context is King"; my response to a recent Huffpost column - 'Is Content Worthless', and why content may yet have king2.0 ambitions)

I just read Jonathan Handel's column entitled 'Is Content Worthless' with great pleasure, and while I totally agree on his assessment that content ...

Headworx: Music 2.0 To My Ears (comment on my new book)

Nice praise for my new book, Music2.0 ;) Headworx: Music 2.0 To My Ears. Music 2.0 To My Ears ...Today's gadget is a book. And it is not the packag...