Category: Online Trends

• Learning about streaming, Part 2: ubiquitous streaming from the cloud

  A few blog posts ago, I wrote about streaming and tried to clarify what this involves. One of the upcoming digital trends of 2011 is cloud-based streaming of music. Good examples of this new trend are Apple’s iCloud service and Amazon’s Cloud Drive, but also the likes of Spotify, Pandora and Google are now very active in…

  marcabraham

  March 22, 2012

  Cloud, Music, Online Trends

  Cloud, Music, streaming

• Pinterest – Another social media miracle?

  Over the last couple of months Pintrest seem to have become talk of the town in social media land and has been hailed as the latest great social media success. Pinterest is a virtual pinboard that lets you organise and share are all the things that you are interested in. A simple example of how…

  marcabraham

  March 12, 2012

  Online Trends, Social Media, Startups

  Pinterest, socialmedia, startup

• Fanhattan: cool name, but how does it work?

  Intrigued by its cool sounding name, I wanted to find out more about Fanhattan. I then came across this demo by one of the founders of the service, which has been going for about a year now. In this demo, Gilles BianRosa (CEO) made it clear that Fanhattan is all about content and not about…

  marcabraham

  February 13, 2012

  Digital Content, Online Trends

  Cloud, Facebook, Netflix, socialmedia, streaming, video

• Learning more about streaming, this time it’s about Netflix (again)

  Over the past few months I’ve been learning more about streaming, trying to understand beter how it works and who operates in this market (think Spotify, Rdio and LoveFilm). A logical next step was trying to get a better grasp on the business side of things; what makes streaming so interesting from a business revenue point…

  marcabraham

  February 6, 2012

  Digital Content, Digital Strategy, Online Trends

  Lovefilm, Netflix, streaming

• Lessons learnt from Marc Andreesen: making your own cake and eating it

  It’s always interesting to read Marc Andreesen’s thoughts on things. As a co-founder of browser firm Netscape and investor in Internet success stories like Zynga, Twitter, LinkedIn and Groupon I find that Andreesen tends to have a good overall perspective on things, being familiar with the world of startups as well as with that of established…

  marcabraham

  November 10, 2011

  Online Trends, Product Management, Startups, Technology

  Online, strategy