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8. Apr. 2014 • Lesezeit: 9 Min.

Aktuelles 8. April 2014

Marcel Weiß Marcel Weiß

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

cdixon:

People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop:

And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web:

This is a worrisome trend for the web. Mobile is the future. What wins mobile, wins the Internet. Right now, apps are winning and the web is losing.

Moreover, there are…

Stacey Higginbotham on GigaOm:

As Om Malik and I discussed on a podcast a while back, wearables are not a tech product. They are a fashion product with some tech inside. Thus they need to be cheap and varied so a wide array of people can match them to their outfits. To that end I wonder if the focus on wearables from tech firms like Motorola, Google and Intel really makes sense.

The guts may come from a tech giant, but the actual product should come from the fashion or design world. Even though the tech world is getting design religion, I can’t see it overtaking Gucci or Prada when it comes to fashion.

That is exactly right. It also begs the question wether a more modular approach to wearables would make more sense then what we see now as smartwatches.

  • Windows to be free on 9” and smaller tablets, also on IoT devices  Ergibt Sinn: "Microsoft wants to ensure that it has a piece of the "Internet of Things" (IoT) pie, so Microsoft VP Terry Myerson announced that when Windows is available for IoT-type devices, it will be available for free."
  • The five things people ignore when they talk about 3D printing
  • 52 Days  "Microsoft now seems committed to helping users by putting their software on the devices people actually use once again. It’s a simple point, but a vital one."
  • The Filter Introduces Responsive Radio As Echo Nest Replacements Step Up  "The Filter, a "personalisation and relevance technology provider" that includes Peter Gabriel as an investor, recently launched Responsive Radio as a "white label, personalised playlist generator for music streaming service providers." The new offering combines The Filter's "taste profile engine" with a new "adaptive playlist technology.""
  • Streaming Fuels Digital Music Growth [CHART]
  • The Wu-Tang’s self-defeating unique album  "Lastly, and most importantly, the Wu-Tang Clan here are flying in the face of the very nature of music itself. Art and music are at two different ends of an important spectrum: art appreciation is fundamentally a solitary experience, which is one reason why people like to live with art in their own homes, and generally dislike overcrowded museums and galleries. Music, by contrast, is fundamentally a social experience. You might prefer small venues to large arenas — but you’d still rather go see a gig at a small venue than have a band play a set for you and you alone. That would be weird. It’s true that recorded music is often enjoyed in a solitary manner, through headphones. But even then the shared experience is important: file-sharing sites exploded in popularity not only because they allowed free access to music but also because the first thing that you want to do, when you listen to something you love, is to share it with others. The world’s biggest recording artists, including the Wu-Tang Clan, don’t achieve success purely through the intrinsic value of their music; they achieve success through the way in which their music is loved and shared. The love of music is a fundamentally communal experience, in a way that the appreciation of fine art is not. To turn an album into a unique object, belonging to just one person, is to defeat the very nature of music and music-making. This model from the Wu-Tang Clan does nothing for the cause of “reviving music as a valuable art”, to use their words. Instead, it simply mummifies and fetishizes it. It’s silly, and I hope it doesn’t catch on."

Dustin Curtis in Whatever goes up, that’s what we do

Fascinating if true. Facebooks once famously introduced the news feed despite its function of decreasing page views in the short term. German competitors like studiVZ did not introduce something similar because they didn’t want to lose any precious page impression.

If Facebook reached a point where they don’t innovate on the news feed because it is too successful it is time to worry about the company.

It makes them ripe for disruption. Especially now with the shift to mobile where the greatest feed will win.

Bob O’Donnell at Tech.pinions on the need for standards for the Internet of Things to take off:

"While it’s unlikely that all the specific needs for potential vertical industries can be determined by a single set of standards, there’s no question in my mind that to even start the process of reaching millions of new “things” (let alone billions of them), significant industry-wide standards efforts around communications protocols, data structures and more need to get started—and soon. We have seen a few interesting efforts—including the Qualcomm driven AllJoyn initiative—but we need to see other larger players either join this organization or drive the creation of alternative or, preferably, complementary initiatives that can start to build the links that will be necessary to fulfill the dream of IOT."

  • The Search For The Next Platform - newnetland  The Search For The Next Platform: Fred Wilson: “So for the next few years (I have no idea how long this search for what’s next will go on), a game to be playing is building a platform that can plausibly be the next big thing. It’s a risky game. But the payoff can be large. And you can even start by crowdfunding your first round. Man I love this business.”
  • De La Soul partners with BitTorrent to offer full-length mixtape download for free
  • Weltbild-Insolvenz: Hugendubel muss Haupthaus schließen  "Der stationären Buchhandel befindet sich mitten im Online-Tsunami. Nachdem die Jahre des "Jammerns und Zeterns" wenig geholfen haben, ist dort gerade alles denkbar."
  • Facebook kauft Oculus - mehr als eine simple Übernahme
  • Throwing sheep - newnetland  Throwing sheep: Benedict Evans: “by plugging into the address book, camera, photo library, notifications etc the frictional barriers to doing a new social app fade away: the smartphone is a social platform in the same way that Facebook is. The obvious expression of this is WhatsApp and similar things that directly address the core Facebook use cases. But it seems to me that there’s at least as much potential in doing things that use the platform without trying to take over a core use case - things like throwing sheep. That is, the smartphone social platform enables a lot of experimentation with new ideas and behaviors that don’t need to be your core comms channel and that would never have worked on the web, and (for a bunch of reasons) might not have been possible on the desktop Facebook platform.”

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Marcel Weiß
Marcel Weiß
Unabhängiger Analyst, Publizist & Speaker ~ freier Autor bei FAZ, Podcaster auf neunetz.fm, Co-Host des Onlinehandels-Podcasts Exchanges
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