Aktuelles 18. Oktober 2011

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• iCloud-Adressen auf der schwarzen Liste: Web und GMX sortieren @me-Mails im Spam-Ordner ab – ifun.de/iPhone :
• Publishers: What are you doing while Amazon eats your lunch? "Although some are just beginning to see the company as a publishing competitor, Amazon has been marshalling its forces for some time now. As GigaOM Pro analyst Mike Wolf has described in a number of posts, the company has been putting together the pieces of a “book industry in a box” for the better part of a year — launching new imprints of its own for various different genres, including one devoted to popular thrillers. Then in May, it hired publishing-industry veteran Larry Kirshbaum, former CEO of the Time Warner Book Group, and opened a New York office."
• New York City Gets an API for BigApps Contest "New York City is hosting its third annual BigApps conference this year: BigApps 3.0.  Build an application from any combination of 750 New York City data sets that describe everything from political campaign contributions to bicycle rack locations.  There are more than a dozen different prize categories and $50,000 of cash prizes to be distributed. For the first time in a BigApps contest, New York City has its own API and the contest also encourages using APIs of NYC companies, including the Foursquare API and Etsy API."
• Muss unser Datenschutzrecht runderneuert werden? "Wenn wir das auf die Internetkommunikation herunterbrechen, bedeutet dies Folgendes: Im Netz werden fortwährend personenbezogene Daten verarbeitet, zumal Datenschützer bereits jede IP-Adresse als personenbezogen betrachten. Das bedeutet letztlich, dass die Internetkommunikation nach dem System des deutschen und europäischen Rechts grundsätzlich zunächst verboten ist und nur durch punktuelle gesetzliche Gestattungstatbestände erlaubt wird. Diese Gestattungstatbestände – insbesondere §§ 28, 29 BDSG – stammen nun allerdings aus einer Zeit, als vom Internet noch keine Rede war, sondern Daten auf Großrechnern in Rechenzentren verarbeitet wurden.
  Das Grundkonzept unseres Datenschutzrechts ist somit nicht internetkompatibel."
• Hell Yes I’m Joining Inspirato. And CrunchFund Is Investing.
• Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone "Instead of just showing Liked articles from online friends who use Instapaper, the Friends panel can now show all links posted to your Facebook news feed, Twitter timeline, or Tumblr Dashboard"
• How the tech boom is bad for innovation "To do really fundamental engineering innovation of the kind that was done, say, in the early days of Google and VMware, you need to hire and retain teams of talented engineers. But in today’s go-go funding environment, top engineers are being enticed with truckloads of money to break off and form two- and three-person startups. This phenomenon, explains Li, is why “many of the really big innovations happen in less frothy times.” He did go on to clarify that “some great companies do get created in these times (like Amazon in the last bubble). It’s just harder given talent shortage.”"
• Uhl beschwert sich über eine „unverantwortliche Hysterisierung“, …
• Amazing Charts Show How 90% Of The Country Has Gotten Shafted Over The Past 30 Years… In den USA: "In the past 30 years, 96% of the growth of average incomes in this country have gone to the richest 10% of the country. And in the past 10 years, the incomes of the other 90% have declined."

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