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- With Netflix Social, Facebook adds another key piece to its emerging video strategy
- With Google Reader gone, is Google Scholar next? "Given the worrying loss of Google Reader, I want to suggest here that academics need to be more proactive in working out how to get a Google Scholar replacement out there and independent of commercial interests. How to do that? I don’t know. But let’s face it, we should waste no time in trying to figure this out."
- The social structure of news "My point is that if you say you don't use Google Reader because the social web takes care of you, then you are mistaken. The social web needs its tools and indirectly so do you."
- “…Even a human fossil must concede that the smartphone trumps the alt-weekly as a boredom killer.”
- Sine waves "It only recently occurred to me that the unconscious link I felt between tides and web traffic wasn't a lazy cognitive crutch, rather, they are both causally related to planetary movement.
To me, this minor insight was a helpful reminder: everything is connected."
- Good crowdfunding: Kiva hits $400m in micro-loans, reaching 1 million borrowers
- Android China
- Focus Nokia, Q1 2008.
- In-app purchase controls « John Moltz’s Very Nice Web Site
- Marcelo Calbucci’s Blog: Google is about to learn a tough lesson "This is not my story, but a story of a friend who I worked with at Microsoft. He once told me Microsoft removed the “word count” feature on a Beta Preview version of Word it sent to journalists to review (I can’t recall if it was on purpose, a bug, or the feature was just more hidden). Microsoft knew about it but didn’t care because it had data that showed that feature was just minimally used.
You get the picture to what happen next. Journalists, because of the nature of their work, were obsessed about that one tiny feature. It wasn’t a critical feature that prevented them from doing their job, but it was a feature that made their life that much easier. According to this friend from Microsoft, the reviews of MS Word were awful and the flagship argument was that the new Word didn’t have a word count feature."
- This man did all his work from a smartphone for one year – here’s what he learned >> CITEworld "The early days were a challenge, though. For him, the hardest thing was getting used to the lack of an accessible file system. He advises anybody considering following his path to think really hard about where you're going to store files and how you're going to move big files around.
"I ended up relying heavily on Box and Dropbox," he said."
- Deutschland auf der SXSW: ein Trauerspiel In der Tat sehr traurig.
- Flattr now lets you make money from your Twitter Favorites, Instagram Likes and more – The Next Web
- Das entschärfte Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger: Warum Snipppets „kleinste Textausschnitte” sind | IGEL – Initiative gegen ein Leistungsschutzrecht
- Google Reader: so exportiert man seine Feeds
- Data in the driver’s seat | Monday Note "If the data collection and crunching tasks can conceivably be handled by a Google-like player, communications remain an issue. “There is not enough overlap between car-to-car communication and in other fields”, Sven Beiker, director Center for Automotive Research (CARS) at Stanford told me (see his recent lecture about The Future if the Car). He is actually echoing executives from Audi (who made a strategic deal with Google), BMW and Ford; together at the Mobile World Congress, they were critical of cell phone carriers’ inability to provide the right 4G (LTE) infrastructure to handle the amount of data required by future vehicles."
- RSS / Fever° / Sunstroke – iPhoneBlog.de "Die generelle Software-Auswahl, die das ganz persönliche RSS-Archiv in Fever° durchstöbert, ist nicht groß. Am Desktop ist man auf den Browser (oder eine mäßig tolle Fluid-App) angewiesen; ein angepasstes iPad-Programm ist bislang noch gar nicht aufzutreiben. Die fehlende Konkurrenz senkt jedoch keineswegs den Anspruch an Sunstroke, das flink synchronisiert, butterweich scrollt und sich aufgeräumt sowie durchdacht aufstellt."
- Geld ausgeben mit Blogs « Spreeblick "Ich hab’s gerade mal überschlagen: In den letzten zehn Jahren haben wir hier rund 10.000 Euro ausgegeben für Anwalts- und Gerichtskosten bei Rechtsstreits im Zusammenhang mit Spreeblick-Artikeln. Die vielen Arbeitsstunden nicht mitgerechnet." Das Abmahnland Deutschland ist kein blogfreundliches Land.
- BazQux Reader – RSS reader with comments "BazQux Reader shows blog posts and comments in one seamless stream, tracks what was read and displays only new discussions next time.
Comments from Reddit, Livejournal, blogs with RSS feeds for comments, Disqus and Facebook widgets are supported." - jungle-world.com – Archiv – 11/2013 – Dschungel – Das Ego-Buch von Frank Schirrmacher "All das, was Schirrmacher da schreibt, ist wild zusammengestoppelt, willkürlich zitiert, redundant, an den Haaren herbeigezogen und durch wilde Assoziiererei und Namedropping in eine mehr oder minder zusammenhängende Form gebracht worden. Alan Posener und Cornelius Tittel wiesen in der Welt darauf hin, wie und was Schirrmacher falsch zitiert, Joachim Rohloff sezierte im Merkur Schirrmachers Sprache, hinter vorgehaltener Hand erzählen Redakteure, dass Schirrmacher sich offensichtlich reichlich beim Plot der verschwörungstheoretischen TV-Serie »The Trap« von Adam Curtis bedient habe, viele lachen über das Buch. Andere wiederum, die nicht glauben wollen, dass es Kapitalismuskritik von rechts geben könnte, feiern Schirrmacher als Vordenker der Linken, auch dann, wenn sie sich nicht trauen, ihn ausgiebig zu zitieren, da seine Thesen so hanebüchen sind."
- OneThirtySeven – The Fertile Ashes of Google Reader "And just because you cannot see something does not mean it cannot have a profound impact upon the manner in which you engage with the world."
- inessential.com: What Else Google Is Shutting Down "One of the interesting ones: the CalDAV API will be removed for all but whitelisted developers. CalDAV builds on WebDAV and is an open standard. Instead you’d have to use the Google Calendar API."
- What the Steamship and the Landline Can Tell Us About the Decline of the Private Car – Emily Badger – The Atlantic Cities "This prediction sounds bold primarily for the fact that most of us don't think about technology – or the history of technology – in century-long increments: “We’re probably closer to the end of the automobility era than we are to its beginning,” says Maurie Cohen, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. “If we’re 100 years into the automobile era, it seems pretty inconceivable that the car as we know it is going to be around for another 100 years.”"
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