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- iTunes Radio Delivers 2 Billion Songs Since Launch
- Apple Announces 170M iPads Sold, With 81% Tablet Usage Share And 475K Apps | TechCrunch
- iOS 7 By The Numbers: 200 Million Downloads In 5 Days, 64% Adoption Rate, 20 Million iTunes Radio Listeners | TechCrunch
- Facebook's Referrals To Media Sites Up 170% YOY, New “Stories To Share” Tells Pages What To Post
- Why iTunes doesn’t support FLAC files >> Kirkville "Supporting FLAC in iTunes and on iOS devices could be a legal nightmare for Apple. Many open source software algorithms can be targets of patent trolls. While no one cares much about FLAC use in small apps and hardware devices, were a big company such as Apple – or Microsoft, who doesn’t support FLAC either – to start supporting that format, it’s very likely that someone would dredge up a patent and seek copious damages."
- As MPAA Insists TV Piracy Is So Harmful, Breaking Bad Creator Explains How Piracy Helped
- Websitebaukasten Squarespace bietet jetzt auch Funktionen für Musiker
- Is this article too long or too short? Why newspapers are writing the wrong articles for the web "As editor-in-chief Kevin Delany told the Digital Editors Network (via videolink), that Quartz readers like:
-- Short, sharp creative takes on news stories that are creative and say something new, or
-- Long, in-depth articles providing strong detailed narrative or insightful analysis
What they don't like is the stuff in the middle - 500 to 800 word articles that provide exhaustive detail but no insight."
- Netz.io "Das Internet in Deutschland ist überwiegend in den Händen von einigen wenigen großen Konzernen. Damit begeben wir uns als Kunden in die Abhängigkeit dieser Konzerne. Was für Folgen das haben kann, zeigte sich, als im Frühjahr 2013 die Deutsche Telekom ankündigte, in der Zukunft eine radikale Drosselung nach Überschreitung eines gewissen Transfervolumens einführen zu wollen. Um den Menschen eine Alternative zu den Angeboten großer Konzerne bieten zu können, möchte sich die Netzgenossenschaft gründen und unter Netz.IO Internet-Zugänge anbieten, die weder gedrosselt werden noch die Netzneutralität verletzen."
- Why Microsoft Word must Die - Charlie's Diary "The reason I want Word to die is that until it does, it is unavoidable. I do not write novels using Microsoft Word. I use a variety of other tools, from Scrivener (a program designed for managing the structure and editing of large compound documents, which works in a manner analogous to a programmer's integrated development environment if Word were a basic text editor) to classic text editors such as Vim. But somehow, the major publishers have been browbeaten into believing that Word is the sine qua non of document production systems. They have warped and corrupted their production workflow into using Microsoft Word .doc files as their raw substrate, even though this is a file format ill-suited for editorial or typesetting chores. And they expect me to integrate myself into a Word-centric workflow, even though it's an inappropriate, damaging, and laborious tool for the job. It is, quite simply, unavoidable. And worse, by its very prominence, we become blind to the possibility that our tools for document creation could be improved. It has held us back for nearly 25 years already; I hope we will find something better to take its place soon." Yep.
- Exciting Commerce: In eigener Sache: 24 Stunden Exchanges bei Soundcloud
- Netflix now officially bigger than HBO, adds 1.3 million new US subscribers in Q3 | The Verge
- Komplettüberwachung: Russischer Geheimdienst erhält vollständige Kontrolle im Internet | heise online
- The iPhone Is a Bigger Business Than Coca-Cola and McDonald's Combined - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic "Eric Chemi, head of research for Bloomberg Businessweek, pulls an amazing stat. iPhone sales in the last year exceed all revenue to Microsoft, Amazon, Comcast, or Google. The iPhone alone outsells Coca-Cola and McDonald's, perhaps the world's two most famous brands, combined."
- Mit TimeShift und eigenen Kapitelmarken: ARTE 3.0 ARTE ist erstaunlich weit vorn.
- Die Happy: Rekord bei Pledgemusic, Tour 2013/2014 | Musikmarkt "Mit 65 Prozent der Gesamtkosten, die Die Happy bereits am ersten Tag über die Crowdfunding-Plattform einnahmen, stellte die Band einen neuen Rekord bei Pledgemusic auf. Am 16. Oktober waren die Ausgaben für das neue Die-Happy-Album vollständig gedeckt." Aktuell liegen sie bei 114 Prozent.
- 10Centuries "If you haven't done so already, you can join App.Net for free and start blogging directly from your favourite client. Blog posts are written as Private Messages sent to @10Centuries, and can be the full 2048-characters (about 450 English words) in length. The first time you send a Private Message, a new website will be created for you and a link will be sent back for you to share."
- Hollywood Attacks Scholars Who Deny The Evils of Piracy "The MPAA points out that there is plenty of academic research that affirms how piracy leads to a loss in revenue. To strengthen their argument they highlight a literature review study published last summer, which ironically displays the following footnote on the first page. “We thank the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for providing generous funding to support this study.”"
- iPhone 5S surprises "A question arises: Does Apple silently log my movements? No, my iPhone records my locomotion, but the data stays within the device — unless, of course, I let a specific application export them. One must be aware of the permissions."
- The story as gateway to knowledge (and revenue)
- Qype geht in Yelp auf: Warum Verschmelzungen von Social-Web-Diensten so schwierig sind
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