Lesenswerte Artikel 7. Februar 2011

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• Wer wo wie was warum im Internet zensiert
• Free Software, Paid Support
  „If you dissect the model, you’ll see that the one time effort of building something is something many software creators are willing to do for free. But the ongoing time and effort of supporting and maintaining the software is not something that can be done for free.“
• LS000 Der Lautsprecher
  Neuer Podcast von Tim Pritlove: „Der Podcast wird heißen: “Der Lautsprecher”. Und es geht darin um alles, was das “Senden” betrifft. Das betrifft Audiotechnik genauso wie das Sprechen selbst, Sendungsformate und Abläufe, Skype und Telefonie, Publishingsysteme, Datenformate und und und. Eben alles, was bei Senden so ein Problem oder eine Herausforderung sein kann.“
• Malcom Gladwell, Your Slip is Showing
  „I would like to share with you some very interesting research from the Department of Computer Science at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. In early 2010, the research team performed a multi-part analysis of Twitter. In their conclusion they found that Twitter is a highly effective way to filter and spread relevant information. It was the rapid fusion of ties within a densely populated network to activate the density required to trigger a network effect.“
• iAds more effective than TV advertising, Nielsen finds
  „Nielsen is reporting, according to the results of a new survey, that Apple’s iAds for Campbell’s soup products were more than twice as effective as television advertising for the same product.“
• Faveous lässt uns strukturiert Faven bei Facebook, Twitter und Co
  „Faveous ist ein Aggregator, bei dem wir unsere Favoriten an einem Punkt sammeln können. Aktuell sammelt faveous unsere Favoriten bei Twitter, YouTube und dem Google Reader ein und außerdem die „gefällt mir“s bei Facebook. Die können wir uns dann in einer Timeline gesammelt anzeigen lassen, oder sortiert nach den jeweiligen Diensten.“
• ★ The Daily Wait
• NY Times Editor Says He’s ‚Alarmed‘ By The Idea That The US Might Try To Prosecute Wikileaks
• Hotmail delivers aliases to help you manage and secure your email account
  „Starting today, you can create and manage multiple email aliases from a single Hotmail account. Together with features that we introduced in November that let you use Hotmail with any existing email address, the new aliasing feature makes it easy to use a different email address and still get all the benefits of Hotmail without having to change your primary email address and online identity.“
• EZTV Introduces BitTorrent RSS Standard, With Magnets
  Oha.
• The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks
  Interressante Hintergrundinformationen.
• iOS enables 71% of Apple’s profits. Platform products power 93% of gross margin
  „So again the question about Apple being a software, hardware or media company comes back. Perhaps, those categories are not relevant. Perhaps Apple is a platform company.“
• Creator of Instant Messaging Protocol to Launch App Platform for Your Life
  „Called The Locker Project, the open source service will capture what’s called exhaust data from users‘ activities around the web and offline via sensors, put it firmly in their own possesion and then allow them to run local apps that are built to leverage their data. „
• The New York Times: The iPhone Is a ‚Huge Game-Changer For Us‘
• Microsoft Highlights Why Google’s ‚Cheater‘ Accusations Ring Hollow
  „History has shown that innovation occurs via competition, and part of that competition often involves competitors building on each other’s work.“
• The Whisky Store: Mit Video-Ratgebern aus der Google-Falle

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