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How a Seattle investor, Univ. of Washington student and Amazon are linked by new documentary film

GeekWire

A poster for the documentary film “Wildcat,” coming to theaters and Amazon Prime Video. One report put Amazon’s price tag for “Wildcat” around $20 million. Amazon Image). The film’s executive producer as well as the lead subject are also from nearby Bainbridge Island, Wash.

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Web 2.0 is Collapsing Under its Own Weight

Phil Windley

The modern web has turned into a dystopian theater of the absurd where even reading a simple appointment reminder from your doctor requires several minutes of stress-inducing interaction with baroque systems and processes.

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Ephemeral Relationships

Phil Windley

You don't have to identify yourself to the movie theater to watch a movie or log into some administrative system to sit in a restaurant and have a private conversation with friends. Tags: identity ssi privacy relationships. In real life, we do without identity systems for most things.

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Why on Earth did Amazon spend $8 billion on a zombie studio?

The Verge

Of the $8 billion price tag, Trendacosta said, “it’s going to seem like an idiot move in about five years — because that’s not actually what the value of any of this stuff is.”. That IP playbook — the one that landed HBO in its current brand identity crisis under AT&T’s direction — has left scraps as far as studios go. Bock added. “If

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Twitter wasn’t built for spoilers

The Verge

Spider-Man: No Way Home hit theaters today, which means that (of course) Twitter was immediately flooded with spoilers for the latest superhero flick. Photo: Columbia Pictures. But that only helps with text, and given that major moments from the film were already making the rounds in video or image form, mute filters can only help so much.

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The polarization of film budgets

Trends in the Living Networks

Movie theaters can create extraordinary experiences, but the cost of production is ever greater. Tags: Collaboration Future of business Future of media. When I walked out from seeing Avatar 3D in December, I tweeted: "$300 million very well spent!". It looks pretty good considering how little was spent.

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ReBoot – I am a Movie Junkie

A CIO's Voice

The 2012 summer movie schedule is starting to line up and like most summers I look forward to going to the movies even though I have a pretty good home theater system. Filed under: Random Thoughts , ReBoot Tagged: movies , summer movies. So here is my list of films that left that mark: Star Wars. Terminator. The Dark Knight.

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