Aktuelles 11. April 2012

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• Widerstand gegen neue GEMA-Tarife für Veranstaltungen
• Best Of: neumusik.com im März 2012
• When execution gets cheaper, so should planning "The digital revolution has, as in so many other areas, flipped the equation here. The cost of building digital items is plummeting, but our habit is to plan anyway (because failure bothers us, and we focus on the feeling of failure, not the cost). The goal should be to have the minimum number of meetings and scenarios and documentation necessary to maximize the value of execution. As it gets faster and easier to actually build the thing, go ahead and make sure the planning (or lack of it) keeps pace."
• The Biggest ‚Pirates‘ And ‚Freeloaders‘ Of Them All? College Professors And Librarians "The big problem of copyright law today is how it impacts everyday people doing everyday things. The fact that so many professors and librarians — those who are at the forefront of the "encouragement of learning" — are discovering that copyright law gets in their way more than it helps suggests a law that is completely out of touch with its intended purpose."
• Axel Springer buying TotalJobs for £110 million in digital classifieds offensive "Springer has been piling heavily in to online-native classifieds, buying a host of such sites, including French property ads site SeLoger for a whopping €633 million (now $834 million)."
• Daring Fireball Linked List: The Word Is ‘Hypocrisy’ "It’s not that Google is evil. It’s that they’re hypocrites. That’s the difference between Google and its competitors. " Yep.
• Shufflr comes to the iPad, has big plans to make money
• 632 "With the price and the number of shares outstanding, Apple’s valuation is now approaching $600 billion. The next closest company in terms of valuation is Exxon. Their market cap is $400 billion. The nearest tech company is Microsoft. Their market cap is $265 billion."
• ★ Apple’s Highest Priority Is Obviousness "The sliding camera button on the iOS 5.1 home screen is a perfect example of Apple favoring obviousness over simplicity and even elegance. "
• Instagram Engineering • Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours

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