Think, Thought, Imagine: Daily tech, media & more (12/7/15)
Quick News (read the headlines and you’re done)
Digital Ad Spending Expected to Soon Surpass TV [expected to take over in 2017 – why care: $ talks yo] – NY Times
Verizon Would Explore Yahoo Deal If It Made Sense, CFO Says [and Yahoo hasn’t even said they’re for sale, yet] – Ad Age
Netflix To Boost Its Original Content From 16 To 31 Shows Next Year [see: their global expansion and their desire to own worldwide rights for their shows] – The Next Web
The U.S. Postal Service Will Now Email You Pictures Of Your Mail [emails black and white images of letter sized email (magazines to come) - being tested in NY and Virginia] – HuffPost
Dropbox Is Pulling ‘Mailbox’ and ‘Carousel’ Apps [why interesting: it’s showing their focus on businesses vs individual consumers (which they had tried to court because storage is being commoditized)] - WSJ
Facebook Kills App-Factory Initative Creative Labs, but Won’t Stop Building Stand-Alone Apps [Labs had created Paper, the fancy lookin version of Facebook, Slingshot, the Snapchat like photo sharing app and others - none of them grew huge, but they did use elements from them in core Facebook app – reasoning is likely they don’t want new apps to be associated with “failures”] - recode
Please Explain (someone’s gotta do it)
The New York Times Is Developing New Lifestyle Verticals, Including a Movies-and-TV Product [why interesting: they’ve had success focusing – they did it with their Cooking app and this hits a broader note that focus matters (see Dropbox, above)] – Ad Age
Look, Listen (and um, learn?)
Read: The 10 Best Books of 2015 – NY Times
Listen: Champions of Unrestricted Beauty – Sleigh Bells
Listen: Year in Music [listen to what you listened to this year] - Spotify
Culture (more)
Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift and the Weeknd Lead 58th Annual Grammy Awards Nominees [surprise! That, uh, there aren’t really any] – Flavorwire
Let's Get Weird (what is normal, anyway)
Googly [not your average google]
Industry (we're so Hollywood)
Netflix' Ted Sarandos Teases Interest in Launching Sports League [maybe just a tease, but an interesting one] - THR
Pixar co-founder warns virtual-reality moviemakers: 'It's not storytelling' [but says he’s game to be proven wrong and is not critical, just thinks it’ll apply more for games and “experiences” vs what we know as narrative visual stories] – the guardian
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Grammy nominations 2016 – you already know them (see above)
Hour of Code – tries to get kids to code at least for an hour
Holly Woodlawn – transgender actress who worked with Andy Warhol died
Ncaa Bowl Games – matchups were announced
Chicago Blackhawks – played yesterday and a player was involved in a big collision
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