Pandora is an internet radio service founded in 1999 by Tim Westergren, Will Glaser and Jon Kraft. It provides personalized radio stations based on a user's music preferences. Pandora has grown significantly in recent years to over 80 million active listeners in 2011. While it has had increasing revenues, royalties remain its biggest expense. Pandora will need to renegotiate its royalty agreement with the music industry in 2015 which could threaten its current business model.
Leveraging digital insights via mobile channels
Joanna Jen - Director, Kantar Digital - Kantar
Rolfe Swinton - Co-Founder & Director - Lumi Mobile
Covering the evolution of market research – why mobile now? Consumer and digital insights.
This slide deck explains the streaming landscape to Caribbean Nationals and introduces a new niche streaming solution called Chune which will assist the Caribbean with using more local content and making Caribbean music easier to discover for locals and internationals.
New Applications and New Business Models
Whether it's LTE or WiMAX or local WISPs using combinations of Wi-Fi, WiMAX and other technologies, we are on the verge of having affordable mobile broadband in the US (it's already available in the UK and Scandinavia and becoming available elsewhere in the EU). What services can be provided over the top and what services need or can benefit from operator capabilities (QoS, security, ...)? The iPhone store, Android store and similar initiatives suggest power is shifting away from the operators and into the hands of application developers and the end user. How can operators leverage their core capabilities (QoS, security, billing, customer relationships, call detail, ...) to provide applications and remain relevant to their customers?
This is a birds-eye view of how telecommunications works from just after tin-cans and string, through Near Field Communications and posting slide-shows on the internet (like Slideshare), to where the next ideas are coming from.
Somo - Creating compelling Mobile Strategies (US content specific) Ross Sleight
Presentation on developing mobile strategies presented at Mobile Squared event in NYC December 2011
US Content specific (stats)
Presented by Ross Sleight, Chief Strategy Officer, Somo.
Somo are a global full service mobile marketing agency. To find out more please visit http://www.somoagency.com
Leveraging digital insights via mobile channels
Joanna Jen - Director, Kantar Digital - Kantar
Rolfe Swinton - Co-Founder & Director - Lumi Mobile
Covering the evolution of market research – why mobile now? Consumer and digital insights.
This slide deck explains the streaming landscape to Caribbean Nationals and introduces a new niche streaming solution called Chune which will assist the Caribbean with using more local content and making Caribbean music easier to discover for locals and internationals.
New Applications and New Business Models
Whether it's LTE or WiMAX or local WISPs using combinations of Wi-Fi, WiMAX and other technologies, we are on the verge of having affordable mobile broadband in the US (it's already available in the UK and Scandinavia and becoming available elsewhere in the EU). What services can be provided over the top and what services need or can benefit from operator capabilities (QoS, security, ...)? The iPhone store, Android store and similar initiatives suggest power is shifting away from the operators and into the hands of application developers and the end user. How can operators leverage their core capabilities (QoS, security, billing, customer relationships, call detail, ...) to provide applications and remain relevant to their customers?
This is a birds-eye view of how telecommunications works from just after tin-cans and string, through Near Field Communications and posting slide-shows on the internet (like Slideshare), to where the next ideas are coming from.
Somo - Creating compelling Mobile Strategies (US content specific) Ross Sleight
Presentation on developing mobile strategies presented at Mobile Squared event in NYC December 2011
US Content specific (stats)
Presented by Ross Sleight, Chief Strategy Officer, Somo.
Somo are a global full service mobile marketing agency. To find out more please visit http://www.somoagency.com
Conectividade faz parte da nossa – e da sua – natureza, é a capacidade humana de estarmos juntos, compartilhando, realizando e, sobretudo, interagindo. Mais que sistemas, códigos ou conceitos de interface, conectividade, é simplesmente a presença, onde quer que ela seja necessária. Nosso foco é na comunicação digital multiplataforma, atendendo a mobilidade e a comunicação nas diferentes telas presentes na nossa vida
This report contains the latest market data for Android, Smartphone and PMP/MP3, obtained from public sources.
Compiled and published by Portable Electronics Ltd.
(Please view it in fullscreen mode)
This report was created as part of my Social Media Marketing Certification project which I completed in Jan 2013. It looks into current approach for customer conversion of the Website, and suggests strategic improvements necessary for the company.
Slides for a webinar I gave on June 27, 2013 covering the state of webcasting, digital music, and online marketing, with a focus on Pandora and the potential threats presented by Apple's iTunes Radio service. Featuring a significant amount of digital music industry economic data, and mapping out the value chains for digital music distribution.
TuneIn presentation @ European Radio and Digital Audio Show 2018ACTUONDA
TuneIn presentation @ European Radio and Digital Audio Show 2018
A look at TuneIn’s core benefits – one directory multiple platforms. Devices, reach, models, developments.
A review of the drivers and appetite for subscription models in Europe.
By Miles Palmer, representative of TuneIn for Europe.
The program of The European Radio and Digital Audio Show 2018 is coorganized by Nicolas Moulard (Actuonda) and Xavier Filliol (Les Editions de l'Octet) in collaboration with Phiippe Chapot (Editions HF).
www.salondelaradio.com
www.european-show.radio
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
2. Internet Radio Service
Others
1. Pandora Mobile for BlackBerry
2. Pandora Applications for multiple platforms
Facebook
Sidebar Gadget for Windows Vista, 7
Mobile Apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android,
Blackberry & Windows Mobile
Livio Radio sells a Radio just for Pandora!
3. Founders
• Tim Westergren (Recording Technologist)
• Will Glaser (Computer Scientist & Mathematician)
• Jon Kraft (Entrepreneur in S/W & new Media)
These guys brainstor med Pandora Media in the
Fall of 1999 in an L.A. bar..
Their First Mega project
their patented
“a recommendation algorithm to organize music”
4. Music Lovers everywhere who wish to listen to their favorite
singers/genres only
Limited within the US due to compulsory license issues for
Internet Radio
Currently more than 80 million listeners(2011) compared to 20
million in 2009!
Adds a new registered user every second on average
Free as well as paid services
5. Their competitive recommendation system
Personalized Internet Radio
Unlike Apple’s iTunes, Pandora took advantage of a
compulsory ‘US license for Internet Radio’ that
allowed one to pay for streaming recorded music
Other competitors at that time negotiated with
individual labels to stream music and were unsuccessful
in making money
Pandora paid for „performance royalties‟ rather than
broadcast royalties
6. Unlimited Channels
Not Live, hence 24/7 availability
Uncluttered
All kinds of Music
Fresh
WiFi /3G /4G
All registered Users
7.
8. Though the company started making a profit post-2000, it has
till date, accumulated a deficit of $83.9million !!
In 2010,
revenues of $90 million & a net loss of $328,000
Biggest Investors.
Crosslink Capital (23%), Walden Venture Capital (19%),
Greylock Partners (14%)
Founder Tim Westergren owns less than 3% of the
company’s revenues
9. In Feb 2011, Pandora anounced that they are going
public offering over a $100 million in Common stock
Recent partnerships with automakers BMW, Ford
and Toyota to integrate Pandora into their
dashboard
However, royalties are its biggest expense!!
And it’s only least safe till 2015 ! Because…
10. The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has released a revised fee
schedule in 2007 for internet radio and in 2015 Pandora has to re-
negotiate a new royalty agreement with the music industry
May switch over to Pay-only Music services
Ever-increasing massive iPhone User base
The present PANDORA may very well prove to be Radio’s Future…
