What makes a branded mobile app worth downloading and interacting with?

Matt Morrison on the ball as ever about sentiment analysis. Robots suck….

Twitter offers a less invasive way for advertisers to reach relevant consumers than Facebooks Social Graph?

The book industry is going through the same problems the record industry experienced, but at a highly accelerated pace. And like the record business it’s marketers simply don’t have the skills to operate in this new world. Which entertainment sector will be next to be disintermediated by their smarter and faster moving digital competitors?

Lots of great stuff listened to this year and really hard to pull out the standout’s other than the top 10.

There has been a plethora of Neu Kosmische music, although everyone seems to have got bored with the motorik beat of Neu and Can, and headed off into the more ethereal tones of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Popol Vuh. The Neu Kosmischers, like their Krautrock fore-bearers are a pretty loose bunch of artists, but has the spirit and references the sounds of the originals. If you are interested in this stuff these albums are in italics…Enjoy

1. White Denim – D
2. Tom Waits – Bad As Me
3. Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
4. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
5. The Field - Looping State Of Mind
6. Wilco – The Whole Love
7. Hauschka – Salon des Amateurs
8. Jonathan Wilson – Gentle Spirit
9. Gillian Welch – The Harrow & The Harvest
10. Arbouretum – The Gathering

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What a brilliant but simple idea, many hours of fun on its way…

It seems that current Universal Music boss Lucian Grainge only has five friends on Facebook. It’s tough at the top…