Aktuelles 13. Dezember 2011

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• Burn Rates: How Much? VC Fred Wilson über Burnrates. In Berlin kann man mit weniger rangehen. Trotzdem interessant.
• Spotify Apps | Pansentient League – a Spotify Blog Übersicht über Spotify-Apps.
• Hiding in plain sight „You can trace the DNA of almost all of Apple’s products to previous products. If Apple did not have these foundations, the slow-motion revolutions would not have happened. Rather than a deliberate big bang, Apple’s disruptions are the result of a discovery process. A test, iterate and improve loop. This is why they seem obvious after the launch but also why they seem to be such an anti-climax.“
• Copyright and remix culture: The new Prohibition? „Should all of this content be removed from the Internet or the uploaders and creators of mashups be prosecuted? That’s the traditional media industry’s response, but I think it is incredibly short-sighted. If you are a modern media company, you should want your content to be shared and remixed in this way. In fact, you should be making it easier for this to happen, not harder. That kind of sharing is how content is distributed now.“
• Apple’s MacBook Air to dominate ultrabook market, says analyst (Lance Whitney/CNET News) Ultrabooks sind Notebooks, die mit dem populären MacBook Air konkurrieren sollen.
• The Apple Blogs Vs. Brooke Crothers – Marco.org Faszinierend, weil ich nicht nachvollziehen kann, wie man sich daran emotional so abarbeiten kann: „Apple’s customers often get accused of unconditional devotion to the company’s products. But the accusers often have an equally irrational aversion: they blindly and universally won’t buy Apple products.“
• The Cosmonaut stylus for touchscreens – Marco.org „I’m not an artist, but I bet artists and doodlers will love it. It works amazingly well in Penultimate (pictured above).
  I’m not a note-taker, but I bet note-takers will love it. It works very well with Note Taker HD, and MyScript Memo’s transcription is amazingly accurate.“
• Amazon’s Kindle Fire lets kids charge up a storm – Yahoo! Singapore Finance Das Kindle Fire ist aktuell kein Geschenkmaterial für Kinder: „What happens is that when you order a Kindle Fire – which differs from the Kindle reader by allowing users to browse the web, play games, video and music – it comes with your Amazon account information preloaded, along with „1-Click“ ordering. That means anyone who is holding that device can place an order, whether it’s their account or not. No prompts come up to confirm the purchase or ask for a password.“
• Android glitch allows hackers to bug phone calls • The Register „Handsets sold by HTC, Samsung, Motorola, and Google contain code that exposes powerful capabilities to untrusted apps, scientists from North Carolina State University said. These “explicit capability leaks” bypass key security defenses built into Android that require users to clearly grant permission before an app gets access to personal information and functions such as text messaging. The code making the circumvention possible is contained in interfaces and services the device manufactures add to enhance the stock firmware supplied by Google.“
• Wie sieht das Urheberrecht der Youtube-Generation aus? „Die Remix-Kultur wird so schnell nicht wieder weg gehen, zu einfach sind die Tools, die uns ermöglichen, aus vorhandenen Werken etwas Neues zu schaffen. Das haben wir früher schon mit Zeitschriften, Schere, Papier und Kleber gemacht, aber eben ohne die Möglichkeit, unsere Werke auch mal eben massenhaft zu verbreiten. Eine ganze Generation zu kriminalisieren, nur weil sie von ihrem Selbstverständnis Dinge anders tut, als es bislang möglich war, ist auch der falsche Weg.“

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