The media landscape is changing at breakneck speed and while we track many of those changes here at The Next Web, it’s worthwhile sitting back from time to time and contemplating things a bit more deeply. That’s whatMedia Evolution’s The Conference, taking place in Malmö, Sweden, on the 24th and 25th of August aims to do. This year The Conference explores who the media industry’s future audiences are, the technology we communicate with, and how the way we create media changes to fit the era we live and work in....

We’re at an exciting crossroads right now; the physical media formats of the past are being swept aside by direct replacements on the Web, in apps or in the cloud and it feels like suddenly anything’s possible. Many newspapers are better thought of as websites that also offer their content via apps and on paper, music consumption is gradually moving to the cloud via the likes of Spotify and Rdio, and streaming movies from services such as Netflix is fast becoming a far better option that renting a physical DVD....

TNW Quick Hit MoodMusic(free) is an iPhone app allowing for Facebook status updates via song. Hits:Neat way of conveying one’s status on Facebook. Option to see other songs users have suggested, in addition to those of your friends is a super way of connecting one to others through music. Misses:To upload a song it has to be synced from your iTunes library to your iPhone, taking up valuable memory on your device....

Seven years after the first invite-only beta of Gmail went live, Google’s email service has yet to be upstaged by anyone offering a better interface or greater functionality in the world of webmail. But that’s not to say that Gmail can’t be made better. Here are 10 web apps you can use to extend Gmail’s feature set. 1. ActiveInbox ActiveInboxbrings Getting Things Done-based productivity tools to Gmail. Whether you use ActiveInbox to augment task managers such as Remember the Milk and OmniFocus or center your task management around the app, it’s a handy way to keep a busy inbox organized....

WhenInstagram, everyone’s favorite photo sharing, filtering iPhone app,opened up its APIin February, we saw a flood of new web apps such asinstagre.at,webstagram, andInstagrid.me, all offering different versions of Instagram curated galleries. Extragr.amis the new kid on the block, allowing users to browse their own photos, photos in their network feeds as well as popular images. The below image isn’t one of mine, or anyone I’m following, much less anyone I know....