Aktuelles 7. April 2011

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• Seedcamp kommt nach Berlin: Acht D-A-CH-Startups sind dabei "In der nächsten Woche macht Seedcamp Halt in Berlin und gibt 20 ambitionierten Startups die Möglichkeit, ihre Ideen zu präsentieren und um die Unterstützung der Seed-Investoren zu kämpfen. Acht junge Projekte aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum sind dabei."
• Now That's Big Data: Apple Orders 12 Petabytes of Storage Gear From EMC [NewEnterprise] "one petabyte is enough to store more than 13.3 years worth of HD video, meaning 12 petabytes would be enough to store nearly 160 years worth."
• Congress Asks Google: Why Do So Many Searches Go To Pirate Sites?
• NYT vs HuffPo, cont. "The big picture here is that the NYT is obviously feeling very threatened by the Huffington Post, and is reacting by lashing out blindly in a fit of name-calling, rather than actually trying to learn from what the HuffPo does well."
• “Everything Should Be an API,” Says FCC So eine Aussage will ich mal von einer deutschen Behörde hören.
• Twitter Arms Marketers With More Tools to Target Users
• Free Online OCR: web app delivers editable text from scanned images or PDFs "Free Online OCR is a web service that can perform optical character recognition (OCR) on your scanned images and/or image based PDF documents, in order to generate a “normal” text that can be subsequently edited or used in other applications."
• What is legitimate "newsgathering" and what is "piracy"? "There's certainly a lot of do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do in the current round of future-of-news handwringing: this is the narrative that allows a "newspaper" whose news is ninety percent curated picks from the newswires, run verbatim without comment or context, to be full of democratic virtue; while websites that examine, criticize and contextualize those same stories are parasites who contribute nothing."
• Mono for Android Ships, Now .NET Developers Can Build Android Apps
• OpenFeint Grabs More Android Developers as the Platform Emerges "Openfeint is a gaming network — when developers integrate it into their titles, their players can compare scores on a leaderboard or find new apps that their friends are using. Between the company’s iOS and Android’s efforts, the company says it now reaches 73 million users."
• Wie man Autoren vorm Verhungern rettet "Autoren verdienen meist minimale Beträge pro Buch, bei Taschenbüchern zum Beispiel ab 5% vom Nettoverkaufspreis. Bei einem Taschenbuch, das im Laden € 7,95 kostet, sind das beispielsweise € 0,37 pro Buch! Bis bei solchen Beträgen etwas zusammenkommt, das man Einkommen nennen kann, muss schon so einiges passieren."
• Analysten: Motorola Xoom & Atrix 4G verkaufen sich schlecht, zu teuer

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