Aktuelles 14. April 2014

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• How Amazon Game Studios convinced developers to join its team | Polygon „Frazzini said developers at Amazon Game Studios get to influence the direction of the technology and products that Amazon launches. They work closely with those behind Amazon Web Services to help shape the cloud infrastructure and to inform them of their needs. According to Frazzini, the recently launched Amazon Fire TV has 2 GB of RAM because the game studios were „sitting there helping construct and create what we ultimately end up delivering to customers.““
• Why Are Porn Perfomers Scared to Talk About Internet Piracy?
• Nicht enkelfähig: Fam. Haniel hadert mit dem (Online-)Handel
• Amazon will schneller liefern – sonntags und am selben Tag
• Samsung zieht Konkurrenz in Deutschland weiter davon
• Tech companies are liars: Samsung edition – Quartz „It turns out, however, that it actually took Samsung an entire year just to sell one million Galaxy Tabs—not the widely reported two million—according to Forbes. In other words, Samsung guided analysts toward an erroneous figure, and then let it stand instead of correcting it.
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  This isn’t a small deception. It made it look like Apple’s share of the tablet market fell dramatically—from 95% to 75% in just two weeks.“
• Mobile Apps or Mobile Web? Both, Sometimes. | Re/code „Quantcast, the Web measurement/ad company, says nearly a quarter of mobile Web views may be coming from in-app browsers running on Facebook or Twitter. That is: People who click on links and open up stories are in apps and on the Web, at the same time.“
• Describing Public Domain Works As ‚Pirated‘ And ‚Illegal‘ Is Bad For Everyone
• wettbewerberverzerrung in der faz – wirres.net „kann neuerdings tatsächlich jeder unternehmer einen unredigierten text in der faz unterbringen, wenn er grob in die politische agenda der herausgeberschaft passt?“
  Diese Frage lässt sich mit einem Ja beantworten.
• ​Amazon app store grows to 200,000 apps – CNET „The store has nearly tripled in size over the past year and is now in almost 200 countries, Bezos wrote in the letter, which also covered the rest of Amazon’s multitude of services, including Prime, Instant Video, Amazon Web Services, and Mayday support.“
• Reddit Starts Listing Trending Subreddits To Get More Users Into Its Smaller Communities | TechCrunch
• The Cost Of Permission Culture: Or Why Netflix Streaming Library Sucks Compared To Its DVD Library | Techdirt „The problem is that, unlike earlier movie-rental options, streaming rights fall fundamentally within a permission culture. Netflix is a great illustration of what’s gone wrong here. It’s gone from having a nearly unrivaled catalog of films available to rent to being the butt of Onion jokes. What happened: It shifted from a system where nobody had a veto power over its operations, to one where it had to get permission and make deals with Hollywood. Sometimes it’s difficult to find the concrete costs of living in a permission culture, but the decline of Netflix’s selection is an important cautionary tale.“
• Inside Tencent: What lies ahead for China’s internet giant? – THE BRIDGE „Some might suppose that Chinese internet companies would have their headquarters in the capital Beijing. But they don’t. Alibaba is headquartered in Hangzhou, while the country’s top game company Shanda is in Shanghai. And Shenzhen in the south is the home of Tencent.“
• Verwertungsgesellschaft C3S sucht Entwickler
• TRB 373: Netzneutralität, Games Week, C3S, Mesh-Netzwerke, @PetitsPlaisirs « trackback.fritz.de „44:15 Marcel Weiß über die Möglichkeiten von dezentralen Mesh-Netzwerken.“
• Buch/Handel 2020: Wattpad holt Kapital für 1 Milliarde Nutzer
• Facebook outsourct seinen Chat
• Exciting Commerce: Exchanges #46: DHL und die Zukunft der Versandlogistik „In den neuesten Exchanges befassen sich Jochen Krisch und Marcel Weiß mit der „Strategie 2020“ von DHL sowie den Herausforderungen und den ungehobenen Potenzialen im Logistiksektor.“
• Popcorn Time ‘Rivals’ Prep TV, Android and ChromeCast Support
• BoatBound Raises $2.5 Million to Build out the Airbnb for Boats
• Rhapsody Paid Subscribers Jumps 63% To 1.7M
• FireChat: Chatten ohne Internet jetzt auch für Android
• Everything Old Is Unavailable Again: How Copyright Has Ebooks Operating In The 1800s
• The playbook: why Amazon’s Fire TV is a guaranteed hit | The Verge – newnetland The playbook: why Amazon’s Fire TV is a guaranteed hit | The Verge:The Verge:

  „Amazon doesn’t innovate by crafting new product categories, like Apple does. It also doesn’t make much money selling its hardware. Instead, it takes all the data it gathers as the world’s biggest online retailer, breaks down exactly what’s available and what consumers want, then produces a piece of hardware that it can sell cheaply in order to bring consumers into its ecosystem. Just as Netflix created House of Cards to satisfy the particular tastes of its viewers, Amazon made the Fire TV because millions of buyers are already looking for it. To understand the Fire TV is to take one glance at Amazon’s best-selling electronics list: two Roku models, Google’s Chromecast, and the Apple TV are the only non-Amazon devices in the top 10. The world’s largest online retailer just took on all three.“

• Ä� When CEOs Matter „Microsoft is by no means in the clear. There is still that whole matter of execution, and an industry that is moving away from the PC. But accepting reality is the necessary first step in fighting back, and it seems Nadella has passed that test with flying colors.“
• Wie Smartphones die Kräfte in der Online-Werbung verschieben
• Ä� Black Box Strategy
• The Vast Discrepancy in User Demographics Between iOS and Android
• The Fallacy of Android-First
• Alabin präsentiert „Shopping Butler“ auf Open Source Basis

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