Google Archives - McCarthy Digital Marketing, data, technology, publishing Fri, 01 Nov 2013 15:49:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 40827753 Amazon’s Next Acquisitions? They Live in the Cloud https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/07/18/amazons-next-acquisitions-they-live-in-the-cloud/ https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/07/18/amazons-next-acquisitions-they-live-in-the-cloud/#respond Thu, 18 Jul 2013 17:30:21 +0000 https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/?p=823 If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering. We have found that, on the Internet, “me too” strategies seem not to work very well. –Jeff Bezos, November 2008 (or so) I was pointed toward a very interesting piece of analysis (along […]

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]]> https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/07/18/amazons-next-acquisitions-they-live-in-the-cloud/feed/ 0 823 Confession: I Almost Never Surf the Web Anymore https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2012/08/02/confession-i-almost-never-surf-the-web-anymore/ https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2012/08/02/confession-i-almost-never-surf-the-web-anymore/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:13:32 +0000 https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/?p=305 My mind goes to Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now; “Charlie don’t surf!” Okay, so this is a bit less dramatic but I have to admit that I don’t surf either. I used to. But I don’t anymore. My first contact with the web is in the morning via email. I scan it for any “fires” […]

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]]> https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2012/08/02/confession-i-almost-never-surf-the-web-anymore/feed/ 3 305 How Might a Spotify for Books Work? https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2012/07/24/how-might-a-spotify-for-books-work/ https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2012/07/24/how-might-a-spotify-for-books-work/#respond Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:37:11 +0000 https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/?p=221 In a previous post, I postulated that forces in technology and consumer behavior, as evidenced by the popularity of the music streaming service Spotify could be seen a signs of things to come for books. I then took some guesses as to which companies might try to offer this “access model” (paid or ad-supported) for […]

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]]> https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2012/07/24/how-might-a-spotify-for-books-work/feed/ 0 221 Who Can Pull Off Spotify for Books? https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2012/07/19/who-can-pull-off-spotify-for-books/ https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2012/07/19/who-can-pull-off-spotify-for-books/#respond Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:22:52 +0000 https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/?p=208 In a previous post, I offered music-streaming service Spotify’s ascendence as a signifier of a sea change in consumer media consumption habits. Millions of consumers — especially the 30-and-under demographic — are opting to access their media via ad-supported free services or paid subscriptions, as opposed to buying and downloading files to own. I suspect […]

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