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Sometimes I forgett I've seen all this happen. Today I got most of my CD:s on my iPhone.

And whatever else I want to listen to I can get on Spotify. Strange days indeed.

I'm trying to find some data and present some smart conclusion. Sometimes I wish I could use the Dilbert methodology. It looks like fun!

As a photographer, speaking for myself, I look for colors, movement, light, night asf.
This is different. East mets west. Even so, nice pic.

Interesting concept - I made this in no time. This is still an beta and invite only, but check out the video and see the potential in an easy to use profile builder like Flavors.

Me like!

Photo: Stefan Waldeck

When doing presentations filled with data, it's always hard to choose the right chart to present the data, so it's quick to understand what is what and the trends.

I will keep this in mind for my future Keynotes.

Chart by A.Abela

I think I'm going to make this my New Years wish. It's about f***ing time I can use the music I already paid for on audio cassette, Vinyl, CD and Itunes as my own - whenever I want, wherever I want.

Luckily there will be alternatives beyond the control of the 4 major record labels and iTunes coming soon. There are interesting projects being developed as You read this.

If you didn't know - most artists earn less per downloaded album than per album retailed. I will not go into deepth, but please take time to read this article from Wired.

Shocking!

David Thorne is beyond funny - In his piece Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free the chart above is included in the answer from David to Simon, who needs some help with logo design for a new project.

The rest of the emails and the illustrations attached made burst out laughing.

"It's like twitter. Except we charge people to use it." - Ace!

Last week Microsoft launched their Xbox Live platform - integrating the Xbox consoles to social networks like Facebook, Twitter and the streaming music community Last.FM.

Now Last.fm is indicating that they added an extra million users via Xbox Live.

Wow!

I'm not sure how the revenue streams are going in this partnership, but an extra million users will end up generating both extra revenues and extra costs.

The growth numbers, calculated by Mashable are amazing, if true:

In a week - 1 million added users boils down to 300 new users per minute last week. 120 million minutes of music streamed from Last.FM over the consoles. All in adding 5% of the total of 20 million users Xbox Live users that is out there. Now that is potential!

Now all we have to do is integrating all the other social networks to all the other devices. Starting today!

Photo - Flickr nick: Roadsidepictures / Allen

This is a good example on how Twitter works as an extended customer support.
I tweeted:

"My subscription to @Wired ran out and when I was trying to buy it at the newsstand in Sthlm they only had the UK Wired. - Why? Why? Why?"

The reply from Wired came 10 minutes later.

Wired @WaldeckS - "Serves you right for letting it lapse :) -- not that the UK version is exactly a dog's breakfast. Where were you exactly?"

I replied: 

@wired "I know, I'm a bum - I was at Pressbyrån in Swedens biggest railway station. It's huge. You need to get back into distribution."

In all it took 15 minutes.

I believe more brands should be listening to what their customers think and say about their company/brands and join the Social Media conversation.

This is an great example - because Wired is sold via Newsstands all over the world, pretty much like a Canon camera or any laptop is sold via retailers. Often without the producers have any knowledge about the customer experience at the retailer.

Now producers can get feedback - directly from the buyers how the retailers are performing and get in touch with buyers and the retailers if needed.