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- Wait, wasn’t Twitter supposed to be dead by now? Überall Killer.
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- Book of the Day: Sustaining the Commons "For newcomers to the commons wishing to acquaint themselves with Elinor Ostrom’s work, it can be a hard slog. Her scholarly treatises, while often quite insightful, can be quite dense in delivering their hard research results and refined insights. It is a real pleasure, therefore, to greet Sustaining the Commons, a new undergraduate textbook that has just been published. The book provides a general overview of the intellectual framework, concepts and applications of Ostrom’s research on the commons.Best of all, in a refreshing departure from most academic publishing, the authors of the 168-page book decided to make it available for free as a downloadable pdf file. Just go to the book’s website and blog, sustainingthecommons.asu.edu."
- Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle & Lavabit | Silent Circle Blog "Silent Circle and Lavabit, as privacy innovators have partnered to lead the charge to replace email as we know it today – fundamentally broken from a privacy perspective – we have collaborated in developing a private, next-generation, end-to-end encrypted alternative."
- Disney Removes Titles from Your iTunes Account [Link]
- 98.9% Of All Tracks Sell Less Than 1000 Copies and Other Music Industry Fun Facts
- Streaming video site Wuaki.tv partners with Panasonic, saying most of its viewing comes from smart TVs
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- Facebook slowly losing dominance in social logins
- Soundcloud for Food, a fresh approach to the cookbook
- On the importance of the post-capitalist imagination
- Liste in Deutschland aktiver (equity based) Crowdfunding-Plattformen
- Spotify versteckt Unlimited-Option Das werbefinanzierte Unlimited dürfte zu teuer für Spotify sein.
- Pynchon - Essays: "Is it OK to be a Luddite?"
- BabyWatch releases new product and moves to the US "Health tech startup BabyWatch (and recent graduate of Startupbootcamp Berlin’s accelerator programme) has announced its newest product – Tedi, an interactive toy and mobile app aimed to track the development of a child. The company is also moving to the US “in the next few months”."
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- High-end US smartphone buyers 5x more likely to pick Apple over Samsung | Computerworld Blogs
- Exclusive - Hot tech start-up Box picks banks for '14 IPO - sources | Reuters "Data storage company Box, one of Silicon Valley's highly anticipated IPO candidates, has selected Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan Chase & Co to lead a proposed initial public offering, according to three people familiar with the matter.The fast-growing technology start-up's IPO could come in the first half of 2014 and raise about $500 million, the people said."
- Introducing the reddit Channel
- Twitter’s IPO reminds us how bad Google Finance really is
- Twitter und die Blasen in den Journalistenköpfen "Immerhin, diese platte Berichterstattung ist ja effizient. Denn sie lässt sich im kommenden Jahr weiterverwenden. Dann nämlich, möchte ich wetten, werden Dropbox, Evernote und AirBnB an die Börse gehen. Das Blasengeschrei wird dann sicher noch einmal lauter werden, schließlich haben die Autoren von Twitter schon mal gehört – die nächsten Börsenkandidaten sind aber vielen deutschen Journalisten noch gar nicht begegnet. Doch wozu gibt es STRG+C und STRG+V?"
- Lockbox: Cleveres Paketschloss mit wiederverwendbarer Box löst zwei Logistikprobleme auf einmal
- Marvel to Make 4 Live-Action Series for Netflix -- Vulture
- Twitter: Ein paar Gedanken zur Bewertung. Kaufen oder Nichtkaufen? Dieter Meyeer ist auch skeptisch.
- SanDisk’s wireless flash drive: A simple storage boost for your iOS or Android phone
- Eröffnung mit 9 Startups: Microsoft Accelerator soll die Nummer eins Europas werden
- The Public Domain Review demonstrates the power of digital curation | Books | The Observer "When the Tolstoy museum in Moscow put out a call for proofreaders to help turn the novelist's complete works into ebooks, they were taken aback by the global response: "No one expected that in the first 10 days, thousands of volunteers would read 90 volumes."They needn't have been so surprised. There is a long and heart-warming tradition of people willing to sacrifice their time in the pursuit of universal access to human knowledge."
- Buch/Handel 2020: Amazon gibt Vollgas "Kindle First ermöglicht es Kindle-Nutzern, ausgewählte Titel bereits einen Monat vor der offiziellen veröffentlichung zu lessen. Der Service ist auf ein Buch monatlich pro Kunde beschränkt und kostet 1,99 Dollar, für Amazon Prime-Kunden ist er kostenlos."
- Google+ Invades The Android 4.4 “KitKat” Phone App: What It Means For Businesses & People
- Once Again, The RIAA Shows How Easy It Is To Infringe On Copyrights
- Acer’s Chief Resigns Amid Slump in PC Sales - NYTimes.com
- BitTorrent Sync Hits 1 Million Users, 30 Petabytes Transfered
- Skating Towards the Goal
- With ‘Alpha House,’ Amazon Makes Bid for Living Room Screens and Beyond - NYTimes.com
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