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Digital Consultant links for September 24th through December 18th

These are my links for September 24th through December 18th:

VIDEO ROOM 1000 COMPLETE MIX — All 1000 videos seen in sequential order! – YouTube – Interesting art experiment uploading/ripping the same video 1,000 times to show how digital format DO decay with copying, as previous art experiment in audio and copy degradation also played with, include Andy Warhol.
Netimperative | News | Today’s top stories – Infographic on who, how and where people are using QR codes. Interestingly, most people use them at home.
Mobile Commerce report – Taking quite an affiliate led view, this is non the less a useful report summarising the uptake in mobile devices and behaviours, the potential successes to be had from a smoother optimised site for mobile and some tactics for success in mobile commerce.
First Look At The New MySpace: It’s All About Music – Revealing new pitch by MySpace: emphasises the sustaining number of their audience (hard to believe) and commitment to promoting MySpace as the ‘go to’ music portal – though seems to be aimed at selling ad space to majors.

These are my links for March 8th through March 11th:

PolicyTool for Social Media – A very useful tool that automatically allows you to generate a policy for social media usage at work. This is a great idea, indeed PolicyTool.net seems to be filling a particularly useful service for small business to get up to speed on policy issues. It's fairly basic and you'll undoubtedly want to change the wording for the final document, but very useful if your company doesn't currently have a social media policy.
MySpace Co-Presidents Reveal Company’s Plan for the Future – Important new for musicians: MySpace is finally getting with the programme and revamping, with the dual aim of being both a social networking site and space for content producers. Some exciting new functionality will be rolled out incrementally – but will it be enough to wean back those who've already aborted the MySpace mission and swapped to Facebook as their fan building network of choice? As a musician with a languishing MySpace profile (last time I checked I had NO friends requests. Not even from spammers) I'm exciting about the prospect of a more dynamic, responsive platform for content promotion – but it does feel like too little, too late…
Did You Know 4.0 – A video with some powerful stats on how the internet is changing the advertising and traditional industries.

These are my links for February 27th from 11:28 to 11:44:

Web Strategy Matrix: Google Buzz vs Facebook vs MySpace vs Twitter – The ever insightful web strategist Jeremiah Owyang from Silicon Valley offers a long view comparison between the major social status update services (Google Buzz, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace) and the opportunities and challenges in the future.
Facebook PayPal Deal Spurs International Ad Sales – Facebook are starting to dip their toes more fully into the waters of ecommerce directly with members, after initial experiments with in-network currency. This is good news for content producers as it s signals Facebook are avoiding the follies of their declining big brother MySpace by aggregating the people then failing to offer a marketplace. Hopefully good news for musicians – signalling Facebook could, I believe, become THE new destination for independent music online.
The next great red herring after social media – Paul Grant from Creation Healthcare (who I work with as an Associate) with an interesting take on digital strategy: back in the '90s 'webmasters' were the high ticket earning 'gurus' who educated mere mortals as to how to set up a web page. Today's social media gurus will have their day ("Imagine if I recommended that we define an “iPad Strategy” – you may think I was a little over-zealous") – I actually think they are already deadweight. Engagement is a 'real world' issue and strategy needs to focus on how digital supports core business objectives.

These are my links for January 5th through January 6th:

The Price of Pearl Jam’s New Single: One Tweet – More viral tools enabled by social media, this time the pop biz are getting in on new service Culture Jam with a service that trades a download MP3 link for a Twitter post. Not sure if Culture Jam it will revives fortunes of grungest finest Pearl Jam though…
MySpace’s Disruption, Disrupted – Interesting take by disruptive innovation expert Scott Anthony on the issues facing the ever decreasing MySpace – did business management by News Corp stop the interesting innovation that allowed Facebook to grow? Meanwhile, profitable music service EMusic is up for sale http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/04/emusic/
5 Superb Social Media Tools for Musicians – Great article on many low-cost tools independent musicians can use to market, distribute and measure their online enagement. The mighty Reverb Nation and Band Camp feature, and even a special metric tool to look at stats analysis for music content owners, which sounds intriguing.

These are my links for December 10th from 17:38 to 17:45:

Review of the decade: Alexis Petridis on pop – Interesting take from Guardian critic on music of the noughties and the effect of the internet: "In the future perhaps every artist will be famous for 15 comments. And perhaps we'll never see mass movements like punk, Britpop or rave again"
Women in Technology – Interesting collection of heartfelt essays by women technologists about their roles in the industry.