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...moved on to the furniture of French architect Prouvé. After visiting one of Philippe Starck's hotels in the mid-1980s, Krakoff fell in love with the French designer's work. That led to an interest in French contemporary furniture designers like André Dubreuil, Olivier Gagnère and Eric Schmidt...
...from Google's search box to Apple's iTunes Music Store--and to YouTube, which already gets more traffic than all the TV-network websites combined, according to research firm Hitwise. "Eventually all of the copyrighted content will be available on virtually all of the sites," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in an interview on Bloomberg TV. "The growth of YouTube, the growth of online, is so fundamental that these companies are going to be forced to work with and in the Internet...
That said, YouTube's audience is growing fast, and there is a certain inevitability to Schmidt's vision of a world where all content producers succumb to the rules of the Web. Hagel, a veteran at parsing the strategic implications of the Internet for business, thinks established media should be trying to "build relationships with audience members" by recommending content made by others and encouraging participation. He's probably right about this, but lots of purely online companies--among them Yahoo! and, yes, Google--are working on it too. The upshot is that content may increasingly have to stand...
...BRYAN T. SCHMIDT St. Louis...
...Schmidt's vision not just to attract stars from opera's firmament but also to seek out talented lesser-known artists, to create a world-class house that also provides opportunities for young performers to develop. Maazel personally conducted all auditions for the opera's musicians, first in Spain, then around the world, considering some 5,000 performers to find the 90-plus musicians from over 25 countries that now make up what Mehta calls his "virgin orchestra." Indeed, most of the musicians are in their early 30s, and some have never played in opera orchestras before. The opera company...