Aktuelles 13. Januar 2014

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• Record Label Asks Google to Censor Artists’ Twitter Accounts | TorrentFreak „Spinnin’ Records, one of the largest independent dance music labels, has been sending several unusual takedown requests to Google. The record label asked the search engine to take down the Twitter pages of several of its own top artists, including Afrojack, as well as its own account. Google, thus far, has refused to help out with this blatant attempt at self-censorship.“
• If I Had a Hammer – NYTimes.com
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• „Fix Copyright”: EU-Konsultation leicht gemacht
• Moonshot „The most reliable method of breakthrough creation is not the moonshot but a learning process that involves steady iteration. Small but profitable wins. A driver-less car might be achieved but first a driver-assisting car might teach the right lessons. An electric car might be achieved but first a hybrid car might teach the lessons needed. A delivery drone might be achieved by first a programmable UPS truck might be a better way to learn.And finally, Android (née Linux) in 2005 might have been foreseen as the future of mobile operating systems but it took the learning from iOS to shape it into a consumer-friendly product. Even when you see a moonshot work, you realize that a lot of learning had to have taken place. It’s like the story of an overnight success that took a lifetime of perseverance.“
• Comeback nach Qype-Ende: Plazaa will Yelp eine “sympathische Alternative aus Deutschland” entgegensetzen Als wäre Yelp tatsächlich der Hauptkonkurrent. Was für ein Unsinn.
• Do disruptive technologies really overturn market leadership? „In other words, a disruptive technology that is defined by being relatively costly for incumbents to experiment with initially but demonstrates a speedy improvement path would not give rise to competitive displacement of incumbents but instead a period of competition followed by a pivot to cooperation. The outcome of that is sustained market leadership for the incumbent firms.“
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• Google Scholar Is Doing Just Fine, Says Google – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
• The Grinch Who Stole The Public Domain „They further make an important point that while the works listed above grab all the attention, because they were so successful, the real shame is in lots of other works that are simply not available at all any more. And this would likely include all sorts of works from 1985. After all, works created in 1985, if created under the old law, would have been given an initial 28 year copyright term, which would also be expiring, and if history is any guide, the vast majority of those would not have their copyrights renewed. Instead, they’re locked up… and quite frequently completely unavailable, with a very real risk of being lost to history.“
• File-Sharing Boosts Creation of New Hit Music, Research Finds „The paper provides empirical evidence that file sharing did not reduce the creation of new hit songs. Instead, more new music entered the hit charts, an effect that’s driven by existing artists.The data shows that the output from existing artists increased, while new artists appeared less frequently in the hit charts. However, since the new material from existing artists was greater than the loss from new artists, the “creation” of new music increased overall.“
• Exciting Commerce: In eigener Sache: Was sich 2013 geändert hat
• Of bits and big bucks „The app economy shows that there are big opportunities in “digital pennies” and that the figures are beginning to match even the “analog dollars”. In fact, I suspect eventually digital pennies will dwarf analog dollars, The trouble is that these pennies will not be earned at the same control points. Bits are already big bucks. They’re just not the bits we are used to.“
• The Best Analogy for Chromebooks are iPads Sehe ich nicht so. Trotzdem interessant.
• Internet im deutschen Film 2014 Deutsche Kulturschaffende und ihr technisches Verständnis.
• Dateien zum Tauschen? Droplr stellt sich neu auf.
• Sony verkauft Metadatenanbieter Gracenote an Tribune Company
• Streaming katapultiert Indie-Musiker nach vorn
• Is it safe to buy that new gadget? Why trust is perceptual computing’s biggest problem — Tech News and Analysis „This year’s CES is a frustrating affair — so many cool new context-aware toys to play with, and so little reassurance from the manufacturers that their use will stay secure or private.“
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• „That’s what pisses off everybody else.“ — Whole & Part „Horace: If you’re a suspect, they’re gonna pull your records, but basically what they’re saying is “we need the right to be able to collect all these records”. Now, most of the debate in the United States is about whether Americans are being monitored or not. That’s irrelevant. That’s 4% of the world. Most of the world hasn’t got that protection. And so if you ever speak to anyone outside of the United States on this subject, they’re like “come on! we don’t have the protections of Americans”. What matters to most people outside the United States is that an American organization has complete, unfettered access to everything anybody does anywhere in the world, and that’s what pisses off everybody else, if I’m honest. You know, I speak to people or I have connections in Finland and that’s the primary concern.“

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