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Thinking and linking in Berlin

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Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth look at the $4.99 a month service | The Verge

Das sieht sehr spannend aus: “We’re excited by the possibilities of Wolfram Alpha Pro, and not just for the realm of academics and research. Regular users may not have had much reason to dig into the service before now, but the ability to bring the entire brunt of Wolfram Alpha’s computational engine on any arbitrary piece of data democratizes the idea of statistical analysis.”

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Building The Ecosystem

“There are two primary activities that Union Square Ventures focuses on in addition to our core venture capital activities of backing and then working closely with entrepreneurs and their teams. They are policy advocacy around protecting the freedom to innovate and efforts to build the ecosystem for startups and entrepreneurship.”

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NY Times: RIAA & MPAA Exaggerate Piracy Impact Stats... But We're Going To Assume They're True Anyway

“By the time Blu-ray finally won, there was enough bandwidth that people just wanted their movies online… but Hollywood had no interest in delivering it. When Netflix finally was able to start offering some movies online, the massive success of that setup caused Hollywood to freak out, and spend the next few years trying to either limit Netflix (and any competitors) or jack up the prices on Netflix to make it hard for Netflix to make money without raising its own prices.”

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Dwolla’s payment ambitions grow with $5M round

“The funding round provides more momentum for Dwolla, which has managed to emerge as a payment competitor in a rather short period of time. The company, which got founded in 2008 and launched publicly in late 2010, hit $1 million in daily transactions in July, putting it on a faster initial pace than Square. The company now has more than 80,000 account holders and is on its way to doing $3 million a day in transactions.”

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Eine letzte Auflage erschien 1988 noch in Italien, dann verschwand He-Man ebenso plötzlich, wie er aufgetaucht war. Ähnlich erging es Roger Sweet: Nach dem Tod der “Masters” wurde er in die Abteilung für Barbie-Accessoires verbannt. 1991 lag das Kündigungsschreiben auf seinem Tisch. Trotz Sweets Renommee stellte ihn kein anderer Spielzeugfabrikant ein - seine Vorgesetzten hätten ihn auf eine “schwarze Liste” gesetzt, vermutete Sweet 2009 in Jerry Oppenheimers Buch “Toy Monster”. Große Ersparnisse hatte er nicht, denn für seine Erfindung von He-Man war Sweet mit einer kleinen Prämie abgespeist worden. Und so musste Sweet sich nun als Gabelstaplerfahrer über Wasser halten.

Barbies barbarische Brüder - einestages

Geschichte der “Masters of the Universe”-Actionfiguren

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The Disintegration of PaaS

“GitHub, by dramatically lowering the barriers to collaborating on and sharing open source projects, has become an “App Store” of sorts for developers, and is home to over one million projects. Likewise, the popularization of Roy Fielding’s REST model for web service APIs has simplified developer access to the many application- and app-infrastructure-oriented SaaS services now available. It’s now possible to store files, query and analyze data, send emails, create maps, subscribe to messages, encode videos, and much more, just by sending simple HTTP-based commands.”

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heise online | Heise darf wieder uneingeschränkt über Megaupload berichten

“Der inzwischen abgeschaltete Filehoster hatte dem Verlag und einem seiner Autoren per einstweiliger Verfügung vom 9. Januar 2012 verbieten lassen, Berichte zu veröffentlichen, in denen behauptet wird, Megaupoad “bezahle die Uploader besonders beliebter Dateien”. Unstrittig hatte das Unternehmen aus Hongkong bis mindestens Ende Juli 2011 ein “Rewards Program” für derartige Uploader angeboten. Dieses hat das Unternehmen offensichtlich stillschweigend eingestellt, den Teilnehmern wurde jedoch lediglich mitgeteilt, das Angebot sei “under renovation”.”

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