Aktuelles 3. Februar 2012

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• heise online | LibreOffice-Community gründet Stiftung in Berlin
• #ACTA: Proteste in Deutschland werden größer › netzpolitik.org
• Exciting Commerce: Zalando: "We generate 100m Euros per month in revenue"
• Techdirt: Hollywood Gets To Party With TPP Negotiators; Public Interest Groups Get Thrown Out Of Hotel "Yeah. This is what corruption looks, smells and tastes like. And the MPAA still doesn't get it. They still think that backroom deals like this are fine and that the public won't notice or care. That's quite a bet to make, and one they may regret."
• The Five Stages of Hosting (Pinboard Blog) "5. The Stately Manor

  Your own datacenter.

  Good: No need to take hosting advice from blog posts.

  Bad: God help you."

• Daring Fireball Linked List: Sony, Too "Sony should no more abandon the point-and-shoot camera market than Apple should abandon the music-playing iPod market, but Sony has to recognize that it’s a business in decline and that the future is in putting better cameras into phones."
• Apple’s quarter results visualized Wahnsinn, was für ein Erfolg das iPhone für Apple ist.
• Digital Music News – Music Funding Already Up 27% In 2012… "Music-related financing collapsed during the second-half of 2011, though maybe that was just a temporary tank. Because in the first month of 2012, music-focused companies grabbed an impressive $65.55 million in financing, a jump of more than 26.5 percent over January funding levels last year." Allein 50 Millionen davon gingen an SoundCloud.
• 3 Millionen bezahlende Nutzer auf Spotify
• Google to Censor Blogger Blogs on a ‚Per Country Basis‘ | Threat Level | Wired.com Déjà vu, anyone?
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• With GOV.UK, British government redefines the online government platform – O’Reilly Radar Die UK-Regierung veröffentlicht ihre neue Webplattform als Open Source: "Why create an open source stack? "Why not?" asked Bracken."It's a government platform, and as such it belongs to us all and we want people to contribute and share in its development.""
• Wunderkit: nun offen für alle, Software für iOS und den Mac | Caschys Blog
• Copying Is Not Theft, But Censorship Is | Techdirt "Copying is not theft, but censorship is. When a video is blocked, banned, erased, or otherwise censored, we don't have it any more. The commons is robbed. When B. Storm copied the song Crazy into his video, WMG's copies were still there. When WMG censored B. Storm's video, it was gone."
• Exciting Commerce: Wie Rakuten mit Tradoria an Amazon.de vorbeiziehen will "In Japan ist der Rakuten-Marktplatz etwa viermal so groß wie Amazon.co.jp. Der Konzern beschäftigt mehr als 10.000 Mitarbeiter und zählt mit einem Börsenwert von rund 15 Mrd. US-Dollar zu den zehn größten Internet-Companies weltweit."
• Another Reason We Need Open Government Data: To Avoid Information Asymmetries | Techdirt

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