- Google Rebuilds the Tower of Babel with Real-Time Language Translation
- “The Times UK spoke with Franz Och, head of Google’s translation services, who said that this new service should be up and running and “work reasonably well in a few years’ time.”"
wow.
- Facebook Will Centralize the Social Web
- “Google will continue to dominate “pull.” But Facebook will aggregate content, make it social and rule “push.” Using our social circle it will surface content that we care about just when we want it - and allow us to comment on it all. As more people use Facebook to connect, share and create, a network effect takes over - and the system get even smarter.”
- Urheberrechtsschutz mit Augenmaß: YouTube sperren!
- “Aber trozdem muss mehr diskutiert werden, es muss aber auch - und da stimme ich Stephan Benn zu - mehr Wissen in diesem Bereich her. Und da meine ich nicht nur wie er, dass die Beteiligten mehr über die Strukturen der Musikindustrie wissen müssen, sondern sie müssen auch mehr über die technischen Limitationen und auch die Rechtslage wissen. Und jene Diskussionen sollten sich vielleicht nicht so sehr um die Beibehaltung des Status Quo drehen, sondern darum, wie man neue Modelle erschaffen kann. “
- Stop selling scarcity
- “The real story in nonphysical goods is one of deflation. Value in once-scarce — well, once-controlled — commodities like news, information, and advertising decline as the internet explodes creation and competition. The internet also destroys the ability of many to control distribution and thus value. But at the same time, the internet drastically increases efficiency thanks to platforms and open distribution and the ability — no, the need — to specialize and collaborate. The bottom line in many of these enterprises — as we tried to show in our New Business Models for News — is that they may be profitable, only smaller. Both sides of the ledger deflate.
This is why the old controllers of scarcity have such trouble rethinking and remaking themselves for the economy of abundance. Their reflex is to control more, when that only decreases value.”
- The Bids Are In for AOL's Sale of ICQ–It's Down to a "U.N." of Four Buyers
- “AOL has taken another step closer to selling off its ICQ instant messaging service, culling seven bids to four “serious” ones, said sources close to the situation.
The price for the service is hovering just under $200 million, several sources said, with one bid higher.”
- It’s Time to Set Local Business Data Free
- “There’s nothing to prevent any of these organizations from exposing the data that was collected via their services to third party developers with no restrictions other than attribution. And whoever does it first will have a huge advantage in becoming the de facto provider of local business data. Being able to tell local businesses, “Fix it once, and it gets fixed on thousands of domains,” is a powerful pitch.
And once any one company owns that core data relationship with the local merchant, there are any number of services that can be sold via that channel. The same dashboard that lets a merchant edit their contact info might also provide tools for web hosting, advertising, coupons, etc.”
- Filesharing: Keine Störerhaftung im Strafrecht
- “Wenn es um die Frage der Strafbarkeit des Filesharing geht, reicht der Nachweis, dass eine Tauschbörsennutzung über einen bestimmten Internetanschluss stattgefunden hat, nicht dafür aus, den Anschlussinhaber als Täter zu verurteilen.”
- Simple Cloud API: Programmierschnittstelle für PHP–Anwendungen für die großen Cloud-Plattformen
- “Die PHP-Experten von Zend haben das Open Source Projekt „Simple Cloud API“ gestartet und namhafte Größen aus allen Bereichen eingeladen, an der Entwicklung teilzuhaben. Neben Zend selbst sind somit Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, Nirvanix und GoGrid mit im Boot. Aufgabe der API soll es sein, Applikationen in der Cloud zur Verfügung zu stellen, die sowohl einfach als auch mit PHP ansprechbar sind.”
- Groupon-Fieber: DailyDeal erhält millionenschwere Finanzspritze
- Get 60,000 Concert Setlists with the Setlist.fm API
- “Setlist.fm, a service that allows music buffs to post setlists from live music performances, has opened up access to a beta version of their API.”
- Erster Musikwirtschaftsdialog: “Pro und Contra Musik-Flatrate”
- “Wer nicht die Gelegenheit hat, direkt im ORF Kulturcafé anwesend zu sein, hat die Möglichkeit, die Veranstaltung als Live-Stream hier mitzuverfolgen.”
