Lesenswerte Artikel 22. Februar 2011

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• Microsoft to blow open the Kinect with personal-use SDK Richtige Entscheidung.
• Amazon S3 is blowing up, will soon store more than a trillion objects "Amazon S3 has so far been growing exponentially. If you look at the past three years, the service has grown by between 155–185% each year."
• An Open Letter to Apple "To be clear, we believe you have every right to push forward such a policy. In our view, it’s your hardware and your channel and you can put forth any policy you like. But to impose this course on any web service or web application that delivers any value outside of iOS will only discourage smaller ventures like ours to invest in iOS apps for our services. As far as Readability is concerned, our response is fairly straight-forward: go the other way… towards the web."
• My Work and Life with the Cloud Sascha Lobo über seine Nutzung der Cloud.
• DST About To Lead Huge Spotify Funding "European streaming music startup Spotify is in the process of closing a very large financing, say multiple sources. DST, the venture firm that has backed Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, is said to be leading the deal, which values Spotify at around $1 billion."
• CCC bietet Bundestag Finanzierung von Adhocracy an "Das Angebot: Der Chaos Computer Club sorgt selbst für eine sichere Installation der Software in Zusammenarbeit mit den Adhocracy-Entwicklern. Alternativ zahlt der Chaos Computer Club notfalls die bis zu 80.000 Euro, damit das Hauptargument gegen mehr Beteiligung und Offenheit in sich zusammenfällt. (Alle Experten gehen von einer viel geringeren Summe aus)."
• zu Guttenberg: Social-Media-Streit um die Deutungshoheit

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