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A Year in review through Google Wave.@ TechCrunch and worth checking out!

Who gets the highest ad rates online?

Here is who gets the highest online ad rates and here is why....
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About the music business

Great article today in the NYT on How the music business is going subscription based: no need to own music tracks any more - or dare I say CDs - you just have to go online or on your mobile and use it as your infinite jukebox. I can really relate to that article as despite my >6,500 songs in my itunes library (and my hundreds of cds in jewel cases somewhere in a box in my apt), I seem to gravitate around spotify when in the UK, Pandora when in the US and deezer when I'm in France. I definitely see a trend for the industry there, and to the naysayers I would say like Bob at the end of this article: “If you ask anybody today, they’ll tell you, ‘I need to own it.’ But once you have these services, you get to the point of, ‘Why would I own it, because I have access to everything?’ ”

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To put this in perspective, check out this great visual rendering of the 'death of' the music industry from the 8-tracks to the ringtones. Scary huh?
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End of the year LISTS

- Find out about 6 different Twitter types: From the Newbie to the Bitch...
- Mark Anderson's 2010 predictions: where the world becomes about real time and Google Goggles makes me think of an Orwellian world. More @ AdAge.

The Future will be geo-tagged

Check out how these new iPhone apps smartly integrate the GPS capabilities of the iPhone offer shoppers sweet deals or recommendations on anything you want to know about what's around you. Where are your friends, what you can buy, where you can eat. Am still waiting for the ad with the closest public bathroom. Would be very useful for tourists anywhere :-)
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