Aktuelles 17. April 2012

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• Techdirt: Canada Post Claims Copyright Over Postal Codes, Meets Resistance
• Facebook’s ad business booming as advertisers clamor to pay more for less "The social network’s advertising business, which contributed $3.1 billion to the social network’s bottom line last year, is booming. Facebook’s CPM (cost per thousand impressions) rate has ballooned by 41 percent in the past year, according to a report from social agency TBG Digital."
• FoxTrot for iPad
• 3 key lessons from Facebook & Zynga’s shopping spree "Engagement matters: Both Marks realize that the future of their business is not just the sheer size of their networks but engagement. The post-social world is an “attention economy.” If you don’t have engagement, you don’t have attention and if you don’t have attention – well you don’t have anything really."
• Schoology hits 1M users, raises $6M to expand its social networking platform for schools "Jani sees Schoology’s strength in its diverse set of tools. “This is not simply a fun LinkedIn for teachers and students to connect, but a powerful platform that can build robust tests, incorporate grading, embed content from around the web, create robust controls for administration, integrate deeply with existing third party school systems for information retrieval, and even provide great visibility tools for parents. Third, it’s open. There’s a lot more to come on this front, but with the density of teachers and users, there are some really unique things we can do to accelerate the creation and sharing of educational content.”"
• Huffington Post brings home the blogosphere’s first ever Pulitzer "Only in the past two years have digital media outlets made the Pulitzer cut. ProPublica, and independent non-profit journalism outfit that syndicates content to traditional news organizations, was the first digital outlet to earn a Plutizer Prize. ProPublica’s awards were earned in 2010 and 2011."
• Txtr Fights Amazon/Apple With iPhone/Android eBooks For The Rest Of Us | TechCrunch
• Westerwelle gegen die Piraten "Eine Partei, die jetzt grade mal in zwei Landesparlamenten sitzt, gefährdet die Glaubwürdigkeit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland? Besser kann ein Politiker die Panik um die eigene Zukunft wohl kaum zum Ausdruck bringen."
• This American Life’s retraction of the Mike Daisey story set an online listening record » Nieman Journalism Lab
• Expertenmeinungen zum 3. Korb bei iRights.info | iRights.info
• heise online | Libri verzichtet auf Zitate aus Presserezensionen "Der Online-Buchhändler und Grossist Libri will nach dem Perlentaucher-Urteil vom Herbst auf Nummer sichergehen und Urheberrechtsstreitigkeiten vermeiden. Man habe sich entschlossen, bis auf Weiteres alle Zitate aus Buchrezensionen der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung (FAZ) und der Süddeutschen Zeitung (SZ) aus der eigenen Titel-Datenbank zu löschen, heißt es in einer E-Mail der Hamburger Firma an Verlage und andere Großkunden. Die Digitalen Linken, die das Schreiben in ihrem Blog unter dem Aufhänger "Zitieren verboten" dokumentieren,sehen in dem Bemühungen auch einen Vorgeschmack auf das von Schwarz-Gelb geplante Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseerzeugnisse im Internet."
• Hands-on: getting work done with Google’s new Aura interface for Chrome OS "Although Google is taking good steps in the right direction with Aura, it’s not clear if it’s going to be enough to make Chrome OS a compelling choice for regular consumers. It’s still a niche platform for a small audience. Like we said when we first reviewed the operating system, it seems like a repeat of the Google Wave experiment in the sense that it is perilously ahead of its time."
• heise online | Apple: Stand-alone-Werkzeug gegen Trojaner "Flashback"
• Commuter: A UK Public Transport App With Potential
• What Amazon’s ebook strategy means – Charlie’s Diary

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