Aktuelles 30. August 2011

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• Innovation in turbulent times "Ten or twenty years ago, sound businesses with decent margins and growth, along with predictable economic conditions, allowed gut-based decisions. Today is the opposite: with all key economic indicators blinking red, management will run for cover by asking for as much data as possible to justify their decision. And a landscape that changes faster than ever before makes getting reliable data a complicated task. Think about the changes we witnessed over the last two years. In a recent interview to McKinsey Quarterly,  Google’s CFO Patrick Pichette acknowledged that, every single day, 15% of the queries it handles are completely new and never seen before. This says a lot about the level of uncertainty the digital business now faces."
• Pirate Bay founders launch BayFiles: a copyright-friendly file-hosting service? (Yup) "Much like file sharing services RapidShare and Megaupload, BayFiles works lets users upload files to its servers and easily share them online. According to the report, the founders said Bayfiles ultimate goal is to make sharing both effortless and efficient while maintaining privacy. The company also said it plans to expand Bayfiles into a more feature rich cloud hosting service like Dropbox."
• Environments Are Invisible
• About Those Twitter Revolutions
• Retickr Creates a Personalized News Stream On Your Desktop [Mac Downloads]
• Steve: Who’s Going to Protect Us From Cheap and Mediocre Now? "Spanning an amazing arc of thirty years, the company with the anti-establishment image has become the most disciplined, best-managed high-tech giant — and arbiter of taste."
• Neues Produkt von Apple: iSave
• Why Berlin is home to a new generation of beautiful apps
• Facebook Discontinues Deals After Failing to Make Pre-Paid Coupons Social
• HP Is Committing „Corporate Suicide“ Says Former Director (HPQ)
• From the Creator of Delicious: Jig
• Thilo Weichert: „Uns geht es nicht um Zoff, sondern um Überzeugung“
• Facebook Nutzerzahlen August 2011 "Deutschland: 20,54 Mio. (+ 500.000 seit Juli 2011)
  Schweiz: 2,62 Mio. (- 30.000 seit Juli 2011)
  Österreich: 2,57 Mio. (+ 10.000 seit Juli 2011)"
• Share to Circles from the +1 Button
• 9/11 Memorial App to Be iPad-Exclusive
• Inside Google+: The virtuous circle of data and doing right by users
• Amazon Launches Kindle Daily Deals
• Würden Sie dem Briefträger kündigen, wenn es Stille Post als iPad-App gäbe?
• Interview-Serie: 7 Fragen zum Datenschutz
• Is the Mac Pro dead? "I expect Apple to move to a modular architecture where the building blocks for high performance computers are generally Mac Minis. Start with a new Mini or with a Thunderbolt iMac and expand both storage and processing by adding a stack of up to five more Thunderbolt-connected Minis. A maxed-out system would have six I7 processors with 24 cores, 24 gigabytes of DDR RAM (expandable to 96 GB!) and at least six terabytes of storage.  And at $6000, it would be half the price of an equivalently tricked-out Mac Pro."
• Von Solarbäumen, Fibonacci-Folgen und unbelehrbaren Schreiberlingen
• blade runner "und wenn man dann auch noch die dokumentation „On the Edge of Blade Runner“ anguckt weiss man erstens, dass man den film wohl meisterwerk nennen kann und zweitens, dass hollywood eine grössere kopierwerkstatt als jedes peer2peer- oder torrent-netzwerk der welt ist."
• Facebook Confirms It Will Scrap the Places Check-In Feed "The change will come as part of the rollout of the new privacy and location sharing features announced today. Without the dedicated check-in feed, it may be more difficult for users to determine the current location of friends. However, Foursquare and other locations services built around a check-in feed should be pleased about the news of Facebook using location as a layer rather than as content itself."
• Need More Public Domain Material?
• ULD an Webseitenbetreiber: “Zurück ins Web-Mittelalter!” "Da der Protest in Schleswig-Holstein bislang lachhaft gering ausfiel, spitzen sich nun schon die Datenschützer in anderen Bundesländern die Finger: Hamburg lässt das Verbot bereits prüfen, Niedersachsen hat reagiert und auch Rheinland-Pfalz kommt ins Grübeln. Derweil lässt unser Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragter Peter Schaar verlauten: “Ich finde, dass das erst mal eine gute Initiative ist, weil hier dann auch exemplarisch geprüft werden wird, inwieweit man sich mit solchen Positionen durchsetzen kann.”"
• Facebook’s new privacy and sharing defenses (they are quite nice)
• Frank Schirrmachers Killerapp und die (ersten) Folgen
• Why can't Windows PCs catch up to the MacBook Air? "My point here is not simply that PC manufacturers are quitters. It’s that they have the entirely wrong mindset to build must-have products. Several times a year, I have meetings with major PC manufacturers about their upcoming product lines, and the tenor is always the same: “Our customers told us this is what they want, and our market research says this is what people are buying, so we made this great product to address that market!” There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but you’ll never set any trends that way. If you want to make the product that everyone else compares their product to, you have to go outside the envelope."
• Die 5 Millionen-Dollar-Festplatte
• Tutorial: Dateien auf Amazon S3 unter eigener Subdomain hosten

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