Sony Music deliver a blow to CDs
Sony Music delivered a knockout blow to CDs, announcing recently that on May 1, it will cease sending promo CDs to critics and journalists, and instead only provide them with digital previews. Sony is the second-largest music company in the world, and the first major label to do digital-only promotions–hopefully it’s not the last.
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FROM THE BULL:: Innovate or Perish
Recently I had the great pleasure of participating in an Innovation Forum (IF) in Melbourne hosted by the charming and charismatic Ben Rennie of Uncluttered White Spaces. It was a brilliant evening with a great panel, an engaged audience and some lively discussions.
Innovation is a curious term that means different things to different people. My [...]
IF Melbourne in review:: “Nostalgia, denial & arrogance” – Ben Crowe @ IF 2010
uncluttered white spaces hosted our second Innovation forum (IF Melbourne) on Tuesday night at Denmark House Melbourne.
The night turned out one of the most influential panels and guests list I have been involved in with some amazing contributions across the floor. IF exisits to bring together like minded innovators and thought leaders to share ideas [...]
Google launches Buzz: Real time feeds for Gmail.
Google, like someone arriving late to a party already drunk and boisterous but with a lot of party favors, is trying to grab some of that Web2.0 social glimmer by polishing up Gmail with Google Buzz. The app, which is integrated into Gmail, includes the best features of Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and other well-known social [...]
We think you should visit:: TheLoop.com.au
Matt Fayle and Pip Jamieson have launched Australia’s very first online multi-media platform aimed to match creative professionals with potential employers. The idea was born in early 2009 after Matt and Pip identified a much-needed resource for the media professional environment.
The Loop, in its very short existence has over 80,000 Australians signed up along with recruitment [...]
The state of the internet in 2009
Focus take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they are using it and how much the amount of usage is increasing. At a glance, we can see that there are the same number of men and women who use the Internet. However, their age, educational background and level of [...]
The Kindle. The iPad. Enter Google’s Chrome OS tablet
Google Chromium has released visual explorations of how a Chrome OS tablet UI might look in hardware. Some possibilites they explore include:
Keyboard interaction with the screen: anchored, split, attached to focus.
Launchers as an overlay, providing touch or search as means to access web sites.
Contextual actions triggered via dwell.
Zooming UI for multiple tabs
Tabs presented along the [...]
Facts about projection.
Facts About Projection from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.
Facts About Projection is a film by Temujin Doran. Temujin is a Projectionist in Islington in London, where he works at The Screen on the Green. It’s a really sweet video that gives you a beautiful glimpse into a dying art form. Movies have and still are shown on [...]
The Video Game Wars: Statistics provide valuable insight.
Online Education has created a comprehensive infographic about the video game industry, providing updated statistics on consumer demographics, patterns, and ‘the console wars’. The only thing conspicuously missing is statistics on whether gamers are now using their video game consoles as entertainment centers.
Click here for an enlarged version.
[Online Education via ThreeBillion]
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Is this innovation? The PEUGEOT B1K CONCEPT BIKE
Peugeot’s new design team just released these images of a concept bicycle dubbed the B1K. Sculpted as a race bike, it features a chainless drivetrain, carbon fiber construction and scant few details on the rest of the design.
Click to enlarge the images…looks like we’ll have to come up with a new term for tires. Tubulars [...]
The iPad converting Libraries.
The biggest buzz surrounding the iPad might be its applications and features, but there are more uses for this product. The iPad has paved the way for affordable multi-touch screen-walls for building interiors. CHC has designed a library feature wall which utilises the iPad as tiles. The size of the iPad (242.8mm x 189.7mm x [...]
How Foursquare can help business owners.
How Foursquare Helps Consumers and Business Owners
View more presentations from 22squared.
Have you tried Foursquare yet? We jumped onto the platform a little over 3 months ago and it took us some time to really engage with the platform. There are some great elements however we thought we would leave it to slideshare to introduce it [...]
white spaces TV :: Discusses Digital Strangelove with David Gillespie.
uncluttered white spaces launches our TV channel white spaces TV in conjunction with Theme Media and Blip.TV.
As an extension of our online voice. We are taking the discussions on business, marketing, strategy, design and people a step further with online TV providing remarkable thought leaders and innovators with a platform to share there idea’s.
In the coming months, we [...]
Google’s Nexus One Mini Ninja’s unboxing the new phone.
Take a moment to view this insane viral from the freakishly talented Canadian visual artist Patrick Boivin unboxing the new Nexus One. Cool kids, grab a ‘ninja phone’. Now and when you do, tell us about it, we want a review from someone ASAP.
Send your review to ben@unclutteredwhitespaces.com
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YouTube Streaming Movies.
Gizmodo reports: 2010 looks like the year YouTube will leap back into headlines for non-Susan Boyle-related reasons. Thank god for that. After yesterday’s live cricket streaming deal was mentioned, their move into online movie rentals should make indie movie lovers happy.
Taking on Netflix, Apple TV, Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, YouTube’s new rental service [...]
2010 :: A sneak preview at what is coming.
We love Uncrate. We love 2010 and we love gadgets and amazing things that we do not need, but have to have. Uncrate have started 2010 in the same way they finished 2009. Amazing. We have scraped a list of our favorites for public release in 2010 and to see more, head over to uncrate [...]
The Last Decade According to Gen Z
The decade according to 9-year-olds from allison louie-garcia on Vimeo.
Filmmaker Allison Louie-Garcia made the following short film by interviewing a series of nine-year-olds in 2009, to explore what they think.
Remember, these kids grew up in a world where iPods, computers, the Internet, digital music, YouTube and foreign wars were ubiquitous.
For them, our future is their normal.
They [...]
Social Media in 2010: Trend Predictions
TrendsSpotting’s 2010 Social Media Influencers – Trend Predictions in 140 Characters
View more documents from Taly Weiss.
In the report, David Armano says “mobile becomes a social media lifeline”: on the basis that nearly 70% of organisations ban social networking in the workplace, mobile internet will be a lifeline for addicted workers and what was once [...]
YouTube Changing the World in 2010 and the next 10 years.
In a decade that saw social media move from the fringes to the mainstream, YouTube is the innovation that touched the most lives, became a driving force for change around the world, and ultimately ends the decade with an opportunity to be as disruptive in the next 10 years as it was in the past [...]
Announcing Innovation Forums Social Networking Site :: Live.
In November uncluttered white spaces launched INNOVATION FORUMS. In December, we launched the Innovation Forums Social Network.
The Network has been created to bring together thought leaders and innovators to share idea’s, connect and inspire. The site is via invitation only so it is not a public forum. All guests once approved can invite friends who [...]
The Cool List 6 :: SellaBand.
We are in love with crowdsourcing and micro finance. SellaBand, aims to empower independent artists. SellaBand has created a platform that enables fans to sponsor bands, and get a piece of the action in return. How it works: fans, dubbed Believers, find an artist they like on SellaBand.com. For USD 10, they can buy a share, [...]