It's About To Get Ugly in Media Startupland http://t.co/q8M6V6vUKJ

Is Taylor Swift Right About Spotify? (@uugwuu - @buzzfeed) http://t.co/TfqXFFQOvt

This man is probably listening to "Radiolab." Photo: Roberto Westbrook/Blend Images/Corbis In 2001, Steve Jobs announced the original iPod, a music player that would make it possible for people to carry their entire album collections in their pockets. Over the next few years, a genre of narrative…

Illustration by Rob Donnelly The once-ubiquitous, but tragically underappreciated fade-out in music appears to be near its end. And like a classic example of itself, the decline has been long, gradual, and barely noticed. The fade-out—the technique of ending a song with a slow decrease in volume…

Apple needs to dramatically rethink streaming music. It should start by reinventing the “music library.” http://t.co/MuYvKLW1UP

Spoify engineering culture Part 2. Enjoy! Sry to keep you waiting, needed to ensure strong internal buy-in first. http://t.co/nPYvqw6y0e

The meeting is not what you'd expect, if what you're expecting is the Bilderberg Group. Around the table sits a group of people in their 20s or 30s, in denim shirts and fluffy pink jumpers. They browse Twitter on their iPhones, share snacks, make jokes, and flip through back issues of Closer. Almost…

Interesting post about how @simple manages infrastructure as code https://t.co/DtCWvH1tBC

Digital music services have 886m paying users, claims Midia Research (@musically) http://t.co/4jRoy45k0u

Still struck by how great this essay on Coffee & craft is by @RianVDM - make it your Friday read. http://t.co/jTulOEZEMj

Deezer has acquired talk radio and podcasts app Stitcher > http://t.co/aRTxL4WQWt

For personalized stations, Mad Genius Radio is the scalpel to Pandora’s hatchet (@ryanwaniata - @digitaltrends) http://t.co/euYdbMc0m7

My first blog post for @buffer! On our new data architecture and how he analyze 500M records in seconds http://t.co/b3vRhLR12v

Trent Reznor Working on 'Challenging' Music Delivery Project at Apple http://t.co/oKVzn5YMQe by @julipuli

In conversation with Marc Andreessen http://t.co/BC9S64Fa1m

Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools: a good read for startup founders by @asmartbear http://t.co/NMW0HWYlRn

How Radio Can Defend the Dashboard (@dsearls) http://t.co/pDKVUGhMby

SoundScan's Third-Quarter Numbers in One Word: Bleak (@edchristman - @billboard) http://t.co/AlQsSHqYgi

Music is a special kind of content, and people discover it on Twitter. That’s why building a music experience outside the main Twitter app was a boondoggle, and treating music like any other piece of media within Twitter sells it short. These insights have led Twitter to a better strategy since…

Pandora: We want to be the FM radio of the connected car https://t.co/XxFoBkupSp via @gigaom

Where Would Instagram Be Without Filters? Lost in the Uncanny Valley. Why special effects are better than “reality” A simple interface, an ephemeral moment, a constrained set of tools, a curated version of life, the rise of cameraphones — these were catalysts for Instagram’s success. But there is…

Opinion: Stop toggling classes with JS, use behaviour driven DOM manipulation with data-states http://t.co/tkFOzPGYWR via @toddmotto

A Look At The Twitter #Music Website That Never Launched http://t.co/Wye8upEnWb http://t.co/vY6HsZX6ry

Despite the popularity of streaming music services like Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, and Beats Music, many have questioned the sustainability of the entire enterprise. The two biggest players are Pandora, which is barely (and not consistently) profitable, and Spotify, which has never turned a profit a…

Startups are a great start, but not the goal http://t.co/8DisvtEtcy

Incredible essay on bitcoin (the protocol) and it's uses in other decentralized networks by @naval http://t.co/8bMJ8lEVYO

“The MVP is NOT About The Product” (it's about an experiment) by @ramlijohn http://t.co/x0hyKKFjEW

Most of what I do online revolves around @Pinboard, and this is a great guide by @viticci: “How I Use Pinboard” — http://t.co/vTiS0EeLGr

On the cover: Inside Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley's innovation factory http://t.co/47wZ1XllXV http://t.co/kJwU6IFOu8

Henry Chesbrough is known as the father of Open Innovation and wrote the book that defined the practice. Henry is the Faculty Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation , at U.C. Berkeley in the Haas Business School. Henry and I teach a corporate innovation class together. —— Thanks to…

Data shows that streaming services charge far beyond what the majority of consumers will pay for music: http://t.co/SBRpwELOyE /via @mrjoe

This is such a great story of product design and pure tenacity: "The Invention of the AeroPress" — http://t.co/WzcGYz04cU

Feb 06 Every CEO Needs a Great General Counsel I really encourage all CEOs and entrepreneurs to read this . I have known a whole series of top-end CEOs, entrepreneurs, bankers, and others who ended up in profound legal crisis by total surprise. A surprisingly high % of white collar criminal…