Aktuelles 19. April 2011

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• You can't install complexity. "To grow a large network, one needs to start with a small network that works, then add more sophisticated nodes and levels to it. Every successful large system was once a successful small system."
• Is Twitter Massively Overrated? "Conversely, despite its position as the darling of celebs, media, and marketers like yours truly, everything measured in the study is more popular than Twitter with the exception of iPad ownership, eBook reader ownership, and location-based services usage."
• Push 4.0: The Fastest iOS Push Notifications App Yet? "To speed everything up, Penso now uses his own PubSubHubbub setup, as well as a custom fetcher and parser for feeds that aren’t real-time enabled yet. In addition, he delivers his pings to Apple himself, without using a middleman like Urban Airship."
• ZDF: Mit diesen Zwei twittert man besser "Mit seinen Twitter-Accounts demonstrierte das ZDF schon früh, wie man Soziale Netzwerke erfolgreich einsetzt. Allein ZDFonline hat heute über 40.000 Nutzer. Wäre da nicht dieser klitzekleine Schönheitsfehler: unter ZDFonline und ZDFneo twittert gar nicht das ZDF, sondern 2 Jungs aus Baden Württemberg."
• 1 Mio. Facebook Fans für New Yorker "Das deutsche Modeunternehmen New Yorker hat magische 1 Mio. Fans Marke auf Facebook geknackt"
• OAuth Helps ShareThis Double the Effectiveness of Its Sharing Widgets Leuchtet ein. Standards helfen Anbietern, die auf Multihoming setzen. "ShareThis CEO Tim Schigel said his company’s revenue is growing 100 percent each quarter"
• Shopware und ein E-Commerce-Framework für die Zukunft "Shopsysteme sind so etwas wie die Brückentechnologie für den E-Commerce von morgen."
• Apple and the TV industry "The mistake analysts made about the iPhone was to assume the current industry structure would be sustained after Apple’s entry. I’d be wary of making the same assumption about the TV industry."
• Apple May Have Tweaked App Store Ranking Algorithm, Making Downloads Matter Less "“We’ve been noticing changes in the Top Free rankings for at least three days now,” said Peter Farago, vice president of marketing at Flurry, which serves 80,000 applications with its analytics product. “From our point of view, Apple is absolutely considering more than just downloads, which we believe is the right direction go to measure true popularity of an app.” Other pay-per-install networks tell us they’ve been detecting these changes too."
• Dropbox Hits 25 Millions Users, 200 Million Files Per Day "It was in one of the early Y Combinator classes, now has 25 million users and 200 million files are “saved” daily, and more than 1 million every five minutes."
• „Ab 2015 ist Print nur noch zusätzliche Dienstleistung“ "Springer Science + Business Media führt seit jeher das buchreport-Ranking der größten Verlage an. Schon heute ist die Datenbank das Herzstück des Unternehmens, ab 2015 sollen elektronische Inhalte das Hauptangebot des Verlags bilden."

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