December 2011
187 posts
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Orangutan Outreach wants Apple’s help popularizing... →
“The goal is not just to see orangutans interacting with the iPad. Instead, Orangutan Outreach would like the monkeys to video chat and communicate with other orangutans over Skype. Currently, the monkeys interact with the iPad through a wall, where they can put their hands through, but not actually hold the iPad itself. Apps that are most appealing have been ones similar to what a child...
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Exciting Commerce: Samwers: "Unbelievable Money at... →
“Während die einen aus dem Vollen schöpfen können und auch an der Börse für so etwas wie Euphorie sorgten, müssen sich viele andere mit durchaus überschaubaren Bewertungen zufrieden geben.”
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Warum CC nicht gleich CC ist und man NC nicht... →
Wirtschaftswoche - Sebastian Matthes: Die 11... →
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Facebook Messenger for Windows officially released... →
Bullshit – Marco.org →
Bullshit – Marco.org →
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Exciting Commerce: Exceed: Was wird aus den Live... →
“Unter dem Motto “Exceed the normal, exceed the obvious” (frei nach Michael Gerber) veranstalten wir am 22./23. März 2012 in Berlin die erste Exceed-Konferenz für neue E-Commerce-Modelle - als Nachfolgerin für die Live Shopping Days, die damit 2011 zum fünften und zugleich letzten Mal stattfanden.”
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e-book-news.de » Weihnachts-Bestseller: Amazon... →
About The Finger →
parislemon:
Last night when I posted about my outrage over Google taking down my middle finger profile picture I was being a bit facetious. It was a little annoying, sure. But I found it more humorous because it seems to be a silly policy with a lot of gray area that will be hard to enforce (and time shouldn’t be wasted enforcing it). I also didn’t like that Google removed my picture without...
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Handschrift zu Font Konverter →
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heise online - 28C3: Auf der Suche nach den... →
“Scharf kritisierte [Evgeny Morozov] Forscher an Universitäten, die die Ergebnisse ihrer Arbeit der Überwachungsindustrie überließen. In die gleiche Kerbe schlugen Ulf Buermeyer, Constanze Kurz, Thorsten Schröder und Frank Rieger in ihrem Vortrag über die Entdeckung des Staatstrojaners. Nach ihren Angaben hätten mindestens zwei Universitätslehrstühle das Programm der Firma Digitask...
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Echtes Netz. →
Infosite zu Netzneutralität.
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parislemon • Dear Google+ →
Profilfoto auf Google+ ohne Erklärung entfernt wegen Mittelfinger:
“My problem isn’t so much with the fact that I couldn’t have a profile picture of myself giving everyone the finger — which I can and do on Twitter and elsewhere — it’s that no one bothered to tell me or warn me before they just went into my account and deleted the picture. What if this was the only place I had stored the...
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A VC: Mocked And Misunderstood →
“So when your company and services gets mocked and is misunderstood by most everyone, particularly the mainstream press and media, just smile and keep doing what you are doing. You are on to something big.”
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Paul Allen - Google+ - Google+ Growth... →
“Google+ Growth Accelerating. Passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day. Prediction: 400 million users by end of 2012.”
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Spotify for Blackberry available now →
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Ubuntu-integrated Cloud Music Player ‘Nuvola’ Sees... →
“Supports 4 cloud music services, including Google Music and Grooveshark”
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Universal Music Takes Down 50 Cent's Official... →
“We’ve been hearing lots of similar stories lately of UMG being pretty quick on the trigger to take down videos, even ones that its own artists have been releasing. The label got a lot of attention over the bogus takedown of the MegaUpload video, but it seems like UMG pretty much feels free to take down videos all the time, even those that the artists they’re claiming to...
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Discerning Apple’s international product... →
“The Apple TV is being “subsidized” in the US. The price is so low there probably because it is benefiting from content sales. This is a compelling argument and it might suggest a strategy for Apple TV closer to that of Amazon’s Kindle than to any of the telecom or computing products Apple sells. This may have significant implications in the pricing of any future “TV” product from...
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Social Networks Account for 20% of Time Spent... →
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Getting the most out of your gift: Boxee Box... →
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Exciting Commerce: Teleportation: Warum 3D-Drucker... →
“An den Überlegungen erkennt man auch sehr gut, wie sich mit ein bisschen Hirnschmalz aus einfachen Produkten ausgefeilte Services und Plattformen machen lassen, ein Prinzip, das sich auch auf viele andere Produkte übertragen lässt.”
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Growth of Twitter Fueled by Media Coverage -... →
“A new study by MIT, which seeks to understand Twitter’s “contagion process,” has found that news media played a crucial role in the site’s growth. The study tracked development from 2006 to 2009, and also found that more traditional forms of social networking, like geographic closeness, were an important factor in Twitter’s initial diffusion.”
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Review: A Minecraft review isn’t really possible,... →
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Netflix Turns Off DVD Gift Subscriptions - Peter... →
Produktstrategie ist richtig. Aber die Kommunikationstrategie ist eigenwillig..at best.
Study: Apps Are For Android, Games For the iPhone →
parislemon:
A shitty title and an overall crap study/post. If the iPhone was as poor of an environment for game development as Android is, I suppose the title would be: Apps Are For Android, Apps Are For iPhone.
Point is: yes, games dominate the top apps in the App Store. But they would on Android Market as well if developers could make money the same way they do with games on iOS. But they...
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Inside Mobile Apps · Crowdstar Ends The Year By... →
“Crowdstar is pointing out that it’s now deriving half of its revenues through mobile, a jab at Zynga, which it says is probably earning less than 10 percent of its revenues from iOS and Android. (However, it’s worth pointing out that Zynga has six games in the U.S.’s top grossing 100 while Crowdstar has two.)”
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paidContent - Mobile →
“Other Android handset makers have their own custom user interfaces, all of which probably have slightly different hardware requirements. That makes it extremely difficult to enforce upgrade standards across partners because while Motorola’s phones may be able to handle the new software, Samsung’s may not. And forced to choose, those companies are more loyal to the experiences they developed...
Most Popular* →
parislemon:
*based on things other than popularity
Yesterday, Facebook made waves by revealing that a game called Gardens of Time was the “most popular” game on their platform in 2011. The only problem? It’s total bullshit.
Only after Josh Constine called them out, did Facebook highlight the fact that “most popular” didn’t actually have much to do with number of people actually playing the...
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Interactioned (700,000 Daily Activations Isn't... →
“The last time Rubin talked about Android activations was back in June, when he said that 500,000 devices were being activated daily, and that they were seeing week-to-week activation growth of 4.4%. There’ve been about 25 weeks between the two tweets. Some quick math reveals that week-to-week growth since June hasn’t been anywhere close to the 4.4% Rubin was seeing. It’s now closer to...
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Disqus crushes other comment systems in Technorati... →
“But in the competition between third-party comment systems – the main ones being Disqus, Facebook Comments, IntenseDebate, and Livefyre – Disqus is in a commanding lead.”
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parislemon • Most Popular* →
“Yesterday, Facebook made waves by revealing that a game called Gardens of Time was the “most popular” game on their platform in 2011. The only problem? It’s total bullshit.”
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Streetside: Microsoft startet Kartendienst über... →
clever: “Ohne große Ankündigung will Microsoft seinen Dienst Streetside an den Weihnachtsfeiertagen in Deutschland einführen.”
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Exciting Commerce: Oliver Samwer über seinen... →
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Apple Newsstand Boost Popular Science Sales -... →
“And as Mag+ CEO Staffan Ekholm points out, the really promising indicator for Pop Sci isn’t the one-week sales leap of 13 percent — it’s that the the magazine’s growth picked up after that week, with more velocity.”
Borgen statt Besitzen
benjaminnickel:
Mit Car2Go zur Arbeit, mit Call-a-Bike zurück. Die Musik von Spotify. Die Filme von Netflix. Und eine Erde, die wir nur von unseren Kindern geliehen haben.
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Pinterest Total Visits Increase by 4,000% in 6... →
“According to statistics announced by Hitwise, the social image bookmarking site received nearly 11 million visits during the week ending December 17, which is a staggering 4,000% increase in comparison to visitor statistics 6 months earlier in June, when it only had around 275,000 visitors.”
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Rhapsody tops 1M paying subscribers, and its... →
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Bestätigt: Rdio startet in Deutschland am... →
Neue Masche: Online-Shops werden mit... →
Anti-SEO.
Social networking booming in Egypt, Russia, survey... →
“(CNN) — People in poorer countries send text messages more often than those in wealthier countries. Men in Spain and Germany access the Internet on their phones twice as much as women do.
And use of online social networks grew dramatically in Egypt and Russia over the past year, most likely as part of the recent political upheavals in those countries.”
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Exciting Commerce: E-Commerce für 2012: "More Than... →
“(Nicht nur) für unseren Geschmack gibt es im Online-Handel immer noch viel zuviel Nerd Commerce, Technik um der Technik willen. Was weiter fehlt, sind ansprechende Handelsinnovationen. Wie müssen Online-Shoppingangebote für normale Menschen aussehen? Und wie verändert das den Markt für E-Commerce? Das sind zwei der spannendsten Fragen für 2012 und darüber hinaus.”
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RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our... →
“Considering the RIAA’s past of suing tens of thousands of file-sharers for copyright infringement, the excuse is perhaps even more embarrassing than taking full responsibility. When some of the 20,000 plus people who were sued by the RIAA over the years used the “someone else did it” excuse this was shrugged off by the music group’s lawyers. Can these people have their money back now? We...
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Vevo by the numbers: 3.7B views, $100M royalties —... →
“Vevo clocked 3.6 billion video views globally in October and is expected to have reached 3.7 billion views worldwide in November, the major label-owned music video platform announced today. In December 2009, that number was at 341 million views.”
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Zentrale Kommentarverwaltung mit engag.io →
“Social Network hier, Blog-Kommentarsystem dort, irgendwie fehlt da eine Verknüpfung, die es für die Nutzer einfacher macht, eine Übersicht über die Diskussionen zu behalten. Engag.io versucht, diese Lücke zu füllen und tut dies, indem Verknüpfungen mit Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, Foursquare, Disqus und Hacknews erstellt werden, so daß die jeweiligen Diskussionen, an denen man...
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NDR vernichtet Spuren am „Tatort“ →
Hinweise auf Product Placement unterdrücken mit Verweis auf Urheberrecht.
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Streaminganbieter Rdio könnte noch im Januar 2012... →
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Will GEMA mit ihren Tarifen werbefinanziertes... →
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Neuer 99€-Kindle ist das meistgekaufte Produkt auf... →
Amazon-Pressemitteilung: “Seit im April 2011 der deutsche Kindle-Shop auf Amazon.de online ging, wurden mehr als 300.000 internationale Bücher sowie 25.000 deutschsprachige Titel zur Auswahl hinzugefügt. Der Amazon.de Kindle-Shop bietet Kunden nun mehr als 950.000 Bücher, darunter aktuell 81 der 100 Spiegel-Bestseller und mehr als 50.000 deutsche Kindle-Bücher – darunter tausende...