New Japanese (Nissan) concept car, the Pivo 2, makes reverse gear obsolete, and parallel parking perpendicular… and of course it looks like a cartoon character! What would they have to do to this car to make it viable in the U.S.?
Ever wonder why products and services are bad? Shouldn’t companies be able to make their offerings better, perhaps through market research? It may have been clear to us at Matter for years, but it looks like some other folks are finally getting it…
“Marketers generally distrust research and data,” said Greg Stuart, former CEO of the [...]
It was announced last week that Brooklyn has approved $2MM for a new high school dedicated to advertising and media education. Set to open in September 2008, the new school is designed to “foster a relationship between minority youth and the ad industry, allowing students to explore careers in advertising and media while helping to [...]
We talked about subscription versus advertising models for content providers in an earlier blog post. Now one of the biggest bands in the world is demonstrating the “pay what you value” model and the “premium packaging” model for music content. This is the experiment to keep your eyes on.
Radiohead to give away new album
By Angela [...]
In an interesting twist, or perhaps the next logical step, a number of celebrities and foundations are teaming with youth media powerhouse MTV to establish a venue for socially-conscious, online social networking. This follows MySpace’s Impact in the online space, and numerous other campaigns and events tying social good to youth.
MTV Launches Socially Conscious Networking [...]
CD Baby is an independent online record store that started its life selling the CDs of independent music artists, and is now also provides those same artists a portal onto iTunes and many other virtual download stores. They just announced how well different virtual stores were doing for their artists. (CD Baby has been the [...]
This Paleo-Future blog looks at predictions from 1900 of what life was to be like in 2000 and beyond. Some of it is strikingly spot on and some of it is just hilarious. The author of the forecast, none other than John Elfreth Watkins, Jr., seems to have an obsession with the not-so-imminent “gigantic foods” [...]
Fora.tv is my new favorite website. Here is Andrew Keen in a debate about the premise of his newish book “The Cult of the Amateur—How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture”.
View The Cult of the Amateur on FORA.tv