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What Netflix Can Teach The Music Industry

Over the past few months, we’ve seen film streaming services like Netflix and Hulu create their own content apart from major cable and film companies. Many of these shows have proven to be a major success, and Music Think Tank has written an article on what Netflix, and others, can teach the music industry in terms of complaints over streaming services like Spotify and Rdio. Check out the full piece here and a snippet of it below after the jump.

#music industry #netflix #streaming

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What the world asked Google to censor in 2013? (DATA VISUALISATION)

Take a look at this visualisation of the data or content that governments around the world have asked Google to take offline in 2013. Created by @ahoiin / Sebastian Sadowski (via Visua.ly)

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What does the World ask Google to censor? infographic by ahoiin.

#censor #google

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Dark chocolate boosts productivity.

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Yup, this writer’s theory is confirmed- chocolate is so good for you that it’s practically a vegetable (and red wine is pretty much fruit…).

[Image: Flickr user John Loo]

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Chocoductivity!

#chocolate #productivity

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More Facts on Psychofacts :)

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Music!

That's some real intelligent Ad!

#Volkswagen search engine ad #ad #marketing

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Toy company WobbleWorks has launched a Kickstarter campaign today to try to fund the world’s first 3D printing pen, which will allow owners to draw objects that can then be picked up or sculpted into new three-dimensional objects. (via Kickstarter Launched For World’s First 3D Printing Pen)

#3D #pen #kickstarter

Officially my new hero! Linsey Pollak drills out a carrot and turns it into a clarinet and plays it, live looping with a Boss RC20 to record 3 layers....from his solo show "Making Jam"

#Linsey Pollak #carot clarinet

#Cynicism & the #Internet generation

#cynicism #internet

How to Make Money From Facebook!

#Facebook #joke #how to make money

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Coaster, a service that lets you order a drink with your phone instead of waiting at the bar, recently launched its first app, and so the company responsible is looking to get the word out. Standing out in a crowd of never-ending iPhone and Android apps is tough, but with the help of Herman, a muppet-like character with an affinity for the night life, Coaster is on the right track. (via How To Market Your Startup With Muppets)

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Google makes more money from ads than print media combined by Shara Tibken, cnet.com

The search giant generated $10.9 billion in ad revenue in the first six months of 2012, while newspapers and magazines in the U.S. made $10.5 billion, according to Statista.

Google makes more money from advertising than all…

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Google confirms: ‘Government surveillance is on the rise’ RT, rt.com

The email accounts of Generals David Petraeus and John Allen aren’t the only ones being targeted by the feds. Google has released its bi-annual transparency report and says that the government’s demands for personal… Read Full Articl…

“This is the sixth time we’ve released this data, and one trend has become clear: Government surveillance is on the rise,” Google acknowledges in a blog post published Tuesday, November 13.

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Government surveillance is on the rise...