Aktuelles 30. Januar 2012

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• Nur 1 % der Facebook Nutzer “sprechen über” Marken "Demnach interagieren lediglich 1,3 % der Nutzer mit Marken, die ihnen auf Facebook gefallen." Das wären immer noch über 8 Millionen.
• „Send to Kindle“ für alle: DropBox-Automator mailt Dateien direkt auf den Reader Nützlich.
• Techdirt: Universal Music Claims Copyright Over Song That It Didn’t License, Just Because One Of Its Artists Rapped To It On A Leaked Track "But, in the short term, this really does (yet again) highlight one of the many problems of an aggressive takedown system. UMG clearly screwed up here and shut down an independent act's own song — which, honestly, one of its own acts had infringed on the copyright for. This is really quite an amazing form of copyright abuse when you think about it: UMG artist fails to license beat on a song that is leaked… and then UMG claims copyright over the official song over the same beat. That's definitely adding insult to injury — or, perhaps, adding injunction to infringement. While it appears that cooler heads prevailed and got this worked out eventually, it seems pretty crazy that any artist should have to deal with some giant industry conglomerate completely shutting down their own works based on bogus copyright claims."
• Apple Post-Quartum Thoughts | Monday Note
• Mega Aftermath: Upheaval In Pirate Warez Land | TorrentFreak "Perhaps the best test is whether it’s now very hard or impossible to find and download popular content. Not even close?"
• Apple’s supply chain flap: It’s really about us | ZDNet "Apple is under fire for its supply chain labor, but every tech item—and thing you own—goes through the same manufacturing paces."
• As Goodreads Ends Sourcing From Amazon, Users Fear Lost Books | paidContent "Specifically, Goodreads finds two requirements of Amazon’s API licensing agreement too restrictive. Amazon requires sites that use its API to link that content back to the Amazon site exclusively—so a book page on Goodreads would have to link only to its product page on Amazon, and not to any other source or retailer. Goodreads links to many online retailers. “Our goal is to be an open place for all readers to discover and buy books from all retailers, both online and offline,” the company told me. Amazon also does not allow any content from its API to be used on mobile sites and apps."
• Twitter isn’t Censoring You. Your Government is. yep.
• YouTube – One Hour Per Second YouTube veranschaulicht das Hochladen von einer Stunde Videomaterial pro Sekunde.
• Neuer Music Manager erlaubt Downloads von Google Music auf Androidgeräte
• Sina Weibo to Face the Tencent Empire in 2012 | TechRice "According to CNNIC’s latest China’s internet development report, China’s microblog users have reached an estimated 250 million. However both Sina and Tencent has claimed that their registered user base exceeded 250 million early on in 2011."
• A VC: Feature Friday: Techmeme Ja, Techmeme ist auch bei mir die Konstante über all die Jahre. "For tech news, I've tried pretty much everything new that comes along, and for the past four or five years now, nothing beats the duo of Techmeme and Hacker News for me."
• Internet’s Best Secrets: Portuguese Authors Association Caught Faking Authors Names "There's no denying that some author might thing its a good idea… even though it might look suspicious that they could get only a hundred of them among their 25k+ registered members; and even though that roughly 20% of those 100 are the association board members; the really horrendous part is that we now found that some of those nomes were put there without any consent from the authors!"

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