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- Daring Fireball: The iPhone 5S and 5C " The iPhone 5S is, in some measures, computationally superior to the top-of-the-line MacBook Pro from just five years ago. In your fucking pocket."
- Does The 'Three Strikes' Approach Work, In Any Sense? Here's The Evidence
- Google releases a new version of Google Wallet, dumps NFC requirement | Ars Technica NFC ist damit praktisch am Ende.
- The theory of newspaper woes
- Jolla macht Sailfish OS mit Android kompatibel
- Gigaom.com: Are crowdsourced maps the future of navigation?
- Tumblr Inks Firehose Deal With DataSift To Tumble Further Into The World Of Big Media Advertising | TechCrunch
- If I had to leave the Mac? I'd switch to Elementary OS | Macworld
- Box Gets A Little More Palatable With Some Added Encryption From CipherCloud | TechCrunch
- An Interview With Horace Dediu: On Blogging, Apple And What's Next - Forbes "They seem to be cooking a lot of things and the great experiment of whether a company can be Jobsian without Jobs is still going on. I have been trying to put together a picture of how it operates. It’s hard because that’s their biggest secret. It’s also a picture that few people have ever seen, even those who worked there a long time. The glimpses so far are tantalizing but there is so much we don’t know and thus can’t assess how robust it is. One thing that is clear to me is that there is no absorption by mainstream observers of what makes Apple tick. It’s hiding in plain sight because what it is isn’t anything anyone can recognize. Case in point is the functional and integrated dimensions. It’s the largest functional organization outside the US Army and more integrated than Henry Ford’s production system. Just describing it sounds medieval and it’s so far outside convention that it’s not something reasonable people are willing to believe actually exists."
- Henry Farrell for Democracy Journal: The Tech Intellectuals "By criticizing prominent intellectuals in ways that are both offensive and extravagantly wrong, Morozov tempts these intellectuals to respond in public. Their response (and Morozov’s further responses to the response) attracts still more controversy and attention, fueling the next phase of a repeating cycle. When this strategy works, it creates a kind of perpetual motion machine of error and public controversy. The world being what it is, the error is forgotten, the controversy remembered, enhancing Morozov’s stature and lecture visibility."
- Re:Public Domain: Ein Fenster in die Zeit vor 70 Jahren "In vier verschiedenen Städten stellen insgesamt 16 Urheber/innen ihre Bearbeitungen von gemeinfreien Werken vor und laden das Publikum zur aktiven Teilnahme ein."
- In eigener Sache: Mein Wechsel zur Huffington Post | ungedruckt
- Autoren Gruppe "Fiktion" präsentiert zukunftsorientierte Deklaration
- "Der Gedanke, dass sich etwas ändern könnte, ist nicht mehr denkbar" "Die französischen Reichtumsforscher Michel und Monique Pinçon-Charlot beobachten eine Politik der Gewalt gegenüber den Ärmeren, die zunehmend als Staatsfeinde geschildert würden"
- CloudFlare CEO: ‘Insane’ NSA gag order is costing U.S. tech firms customers
- Box joins the crew of companies trying to disrupt Microsoft Office | CITEworld "Schillace said that Box is trying to think of document creation the way Apple thought about smartphones when it began designing the iPhone -- by thinking hard about what to leave out. "Everybody was trying to squeeze the desktop into a mobile device, like PalmOS or Danger... It was funky and weird, and didn't quite work right. Apple started making choices about what to put in and what to leave out, and it worked much better for that form factor." "
- 9 Thesen zu Apples TouchID — Mobile World — Medium
- Silicon Valley Luminaries Got Grilled On The NSA At Disrupt, Here’s How They Responded | TechCrunch "Zuckerberg and Mayer hold the most interesting positions for this debate, as both Yahoo and Facebook were implicated as participants in the PRISM program. Both companies have strongly denied involvement with the NSA and have pressed the government to allow them to reveal more information about the requests the NSA makes for information and how they handle them.Zuckerberg was surprisingly candid on the topic, saying, ““I think the government blew it.” It would have been nice to hear more from him about Facebook’s involvement in the PRISM program. Zuckerberg was happy to slam the government on its handling of the scandal, but didn’t talk in much detail about Facebook and how it interacts with the NSA and what steps he is taking regarding the PRISM program."
- Music is mainly purchased through aggregators like... - newnetland “Music is mainly purchased through aggregators like iTunes and Spotify who charge a hefty tariff. You need a comprehensive catalog to convince users to commit to a payment relationship.In-app payments on iOS and Android are the one place where paid snacks exist at scale. They have been wildly successful, quickly becoming the dominant business model for games, replacing up-front payments and banner ads. (There are individual games that generate over one billion dollars per year from in-app payments.) Outside of games, entrepreneurs have started building interesting new products that wouldn’t have been viable without in-app payments.” - The Internet is for snacking - Chris Dixon
- The Best Platform for Incubation Is the Web "That’s how Facebook started, after all. And Google, and Amazon, Twitter and eBay, and countless others. No gatekeepers, no contests, no hackathons or pre-seed rounds. A great idea, and a great platform: the Web."
- Netflix makes it official, launches in the Netherlands "Netflix continued its international expansion by launching in the Netherlands late Tuesday night, where consumers can now subscribe to the service for €7.99 a month (about $10.61). With the launch in the Netherlands, Netflix is now available in more than 40 countries, including Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the U.K. and Sweden."
- ★ Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction
- Daring Fireball Linked List: Rich Mogull on the Security Implications of Fingerprint Scanning "But the real reason is that using fingerprints creates better security through improved usability. Most people, if they use a passcode at all, stick with a simple four-digit passcode, which is easy for an attacker to circumvent with physical possession of your iPhone. Longer passphrases, like the obscure 16-character one I use, are far more secure, but a real pain to enter repeatedly. A fingerprint reader, if properly implemented, provides the security of a long passphrase, with more convenience than even a short passcode."
- Dutch Netflix apps point to an imminent launch in the Netherlands
- Twitter Acquires MoPub
- Updated: Twitter acquires mobile ad company MoPub for a reported $350M
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