Lesenswerte Artikel – 15. February 2010

– „They’re based on the false belief that copyright infringement is an easy „yes“ or „no“ decision that can be determined upon seeing it. But what we’re discovering in both this situation and in the Viacom situation is that even the copyright holders are really bad at figuring out if something is infringing or not. So why should anyone expect third parties to be able to do a better job?“

– „An interesting new, emerging stack is the “geo stack.” The first layer is latitude/longitude location detection. This is mainly provided by satellites and GPS chips which seem to be getting so affordable they will be in every mobile device soon.

The next layer is connecting lat/long to human-understandable locations. Google Maps, NAVTEQ etc. do this by connecting lat/long to roads. Location-based apps like Foursquare, Gowalla, and Yelp do this by connecting lat/long to “venues.”“

– „iPhone browser is a lightweight application that has an easy drag-and-drop interface that lets you browse the contents on your iPhone. You can manually transfer your photos, music or movies from your device back to your computer, or just add files to the iPhone and fill up the unused space as extra storage.“ Großartig.

– „Even though Gmail has hundreds of millions of users, they actually have much to fear. The enemy is Facebook. With its integrated chat, Facebook Connect and its forthcoming full-featured mail product, Titan, the social network giant has a good shot at syphoning users from Gmail just as Google did to Yahoo Mail and Hotmail half a decade ago.“

– „kleiner Tipp für Buzz: Man kann für die Quellen, die man in Buzz hineinströmt (Twitter, Shared items vom Google Reader, Feeds, Flickr, Youtube, etc. – halt alles, was man auf seinem Profil bei Google geclaimt hat) festlegen, an wen das tatsächlich gebuzzt werden soll.“