Eric Ritter

Music In The Cloud…

The question is: WWAD? or What will Apple do? There have been many rumors over the last year, especially with the new data center in North Carolina.

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We may be moving closer to the reality that Julie Andrews sang about when she crooned: “The hills are alive, with the sound of music.”

At least that’s if Amazon’s new Cloud Drive delivers on the promise to enable consumers to store music remotely in the cloud and access it wherever they go.

Amazon may be the first major company to launch a cloud-based music service, but Apple and Google may not be far behind.

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Connecting Online and Offline Worlds

Great example of taking an online social experience to the offline world for people. Hopefully there will be more of this to come.

Amplify’d from mashable.com

The problem with food ads is that you can only see the product, but you can’t smell or taste it. Until now, that is.

In Germany, a billboard for the GranataPet brand dog food lets consumers (or actually, their dogs) get a sample by checking in via Foursquare. As this video shows, once you check in, dog food comes out of a dispenser at dog level. As detailed, the checkins are noted on a distant server that is connected to a black box in the billboard that controls the dispenser.

Read more at mashable.com

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