Sixteen Years And Counting
Sixteen years after starting this blog, it’s still here. And I’m still not quite sure what happens next.
Tag: what happens next
Dropbox looking to beat the smartphone incumbents in the cloud storage game
Buzzfeed (I know…) profiles Dropbox and its quest to stay relevant on mobile while Apple, Google, and Microsoft, look to tie everyone into their respective cloud storage systems: Dropbox will have to prove that the layer of software that sits on top of otherwise “dumb storage” are valuable enough to get customers to pay the company every month. Paying for a mobile utility app is a tough proposition even in the United States, let alone the emerging economies where low-cost Android handset sales are booming. Online storage costs have gone to zero and Dropbox has had to quickly find a future beyond
What happens after MP3?
If, as NPR manages to extrapolate, music formats change every thirty years, what will replace the MP3 file?
Does it matter how accurate the “Musicians to Watch Out For” lists are?
The BBC have noted their hits and misses from previous “Sound of the year” lists, and found five  names they’ve predicted over the last nine years that are hits. Who much of the success is because they got a kick of momentum by appearing on the list (Plan B?), and how much is down to how well they were marketed (the failure of Little Boots) isn’t discussed. You know what else isn’t really discussed? That most of the bands and artists featured on these lists are likely still making music, are making a living from their work, have a couple
