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- Why Chromecast is such a big deal for Google, and a threat to Apple
- On Twitter, More 'Favoriting'
- Microsoft Wants Google to Censor…. Microsoft.com "Luckily for Microsoft, Google spotted the error, meaning that the pages in question have not been removed from the search results, although it would have been a fitting punishment if Google had decided to comply with the request."
- Amazon is not a media company - newnetland Bendict Evans:"Amazon is not a media company; it’s a leveraged play on the conversion of the entire economy (or as much of it as possible) to ecommerce."
- Netflix UK users will get to stream new Breaking Bad episodes just a day after US broadcast - newnetlandWhat if Netflix and the likes become the go-to licensing partners abroad for US TV? Why that would make sense you ask? Think lots of countries worldwide and transaction costs. Who in a few years will be able to deliver worldwide? Exactly.
- Android tablet numbers
- At Netflix, big data can affect even the littlest things "Netflix didn’t have to spend millions of dollars advertising the new show hoping you would tune in — it knew you’d see it in the recommendations, it knew you’d give it a try and it knew you’d like it. According to the company during its earnings call on Monday, “Orange is the New Black” actually had more viewers watching more hours than during its first week than its predecessors had."
- Timehop, The Place To Reminisce Online, Raises $3M Led By Spark Capital | TechCrunch
- New Gmail inbox: How to use tabs to clean up your inbox for good. - Slate Magazine
- LinkedIn On A Roll - newnetland"It’s been pretty obvious from the stock price, but LinkedIn, which I’ve written about every so often, is really on a roll lately. The influencer content play (which I will admit I’ve been part of, in a small way) is a clear winner, the company is enjoying very positive press, and its premium services are getting really interesting as well."John Battelle is impressed and so am I. LinkedIn has a clear vision and right now it seems to be doing everything right. I have said that for years: In a lot of ways LinkedIn is the biggest threat to Twitter.
- Silicon Allee » ‘Spotify for TV’ Magine Signs Content Deal with RTL Ahead of German Launch "‘Spotify for TV’ Magine has inked a deal with German media giant Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland to launch six channels on its online platform. The Swedish startup, which closed a $19 million (€14.6m) Series A earlier this month, will now offer RTL, VOX, n-tv, RTL Nitro, Super RTL and RTL II in its subscription service package."
- Daring Fireball Linked List: The Verge: Google Nexus 7 Review Techjournalisten wollen dringend potente iPad-Wettbewerber.
- Tomorrow Focus will Mode-, Auto- und Gesundheitsportale kaufen
- Tough Copyright Laws Chill Innovation, Tech Companies Warn Lawmakers "Among other examples they cite the Government Accountability Office report which found that there is no solid evidence that piracy leads to massive losses. The tech companies also cite several journalistic investigations, some of which describe the industry-funded reports as “fiction.”"
- Services, not Devices
- "An idea is not a design A design is not a prototype A prototype is not a program A program is not a..."
- The (alleged) 13-inch iPad and the triumph of thin clients - newnetland"While a classic thin architecture moves processing to the server, enabling cheaper clients, those clients still have a GUI, mouse and keyboard. In other words, the experience is largely the same as a fat client, minus the superior performance and responsiveness. Tablets, however, are orthogonal to PCs; they are inferior in some ways (performance, text entry), but superior in others (size, battery life, touch). They have a reason-to-own other than price.Thinking about capabilities beyond processing casts Microsoft’s Windows 8 troubles in stark relief. Windows 8, with it’s mixture of touch and WIMP-interface is the ultimate fat client. But by combining so many capabilities, it necessarily compromises them as well.Today’s thin clients, on the hand, specialize. A pure tablet is superior for touch-based applications; a pure PC is superior for keyboard-and-mouse ones. An e-ink reader is superior for reading, and a 13-inch iPad would be superior for (in my case) drawing and making music. And while many people now use two devices, I think that’s only the beginning (I’m personally at four and the 13″ iPad would be number five)."The always insightful Ben Thompson.
- What went wrong at Microsoft: All the clues are in The Wire. - Slate Magazine "What reorgs don’t result in is a stronger product. They result in slow, clunky, buggy, yet long-in-the-making junk like Microsoft Surface, or Vista, or Kin. Why did it take two years to realize that Vista wouldn’t work? And how did Kin, Microsoft’s iPhone competitor, even get released? It landed in May 2010, it was universally loathed, and then it vanished. A contributor to the infamous Minimsft blog—ground zero for disgruntled employees—put it this way: “We all knew that Kin was a lackluster device, lacked the features the market wanted and was buggy with performance problems ... But when our best ideas were knocked down over and over and it began to dawn on us that we were not going to have any real affect [sic] on the product, we gave up.” Or, as the Baltimore police department’s deputy commissioner Rawls once said to a frustrated underling, “What part of ‘Bend over’ didn’t you understand?”"
- Why I'm Not Switching From the iPhone | TIME.com - newnetland"What we need to recognize about today’s smartphone market is that although smartphones have high penetration in developed markets, we don’t have high penetration of mature smartphone owners. Many hundreds of millions of consumers are on their first or second smartphone; these customers have not yet had sufficient years of exposure to these devices for their preferences to coalesce. It makes sense, then, that we still see evidence in the market today of a certain percentage of people trying out different platforms in order to identify what they like and don’t like."That is a very important point.
- Victory Lap for Ask Patents - Joel on Software
- "Arrested Development" Helps Netflix Add More Than 600,000 Subscribers - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD "Expect more original programming beyond the titles Netflix has announced, Hastings said. He said the company plans to start releasing its own “broadly appealing feature documentaries and stand-up comedy specials.”" Content is king.
- WhatsApp adopts freemium model, goes free on iOS "WhatsApp is now free to users for the first year of service, and costs just $0.99 a year after that promotional period has elapsed. All current iPhone WhatsApp users will be allowed to continue using the service for free, for life."
- UK Internet Providers Start Blocking EZTV and ezRSS | TorrentFreak "In any case, the blockade of EZTV certainly won’t be the last of its kind in the UK. The music industry has announced plans to request court orders for a dozen more websites and the movie industry will do the same."
- Exciting Commerce: ProSiebenSat.1 will bei Möbel.de und Fashion.de einsteigen
- Google: “From TVs to Tablets” – iPhoneBlog.de "Und Chromecast? Der 35-Dollar-Dongle löst ein paar aktuelle Alltagsprobleme, die wir mit Fernbedienungen haben. Es ist ein Bugfix für ein veraltetes System. Zumindest akzeptiert es, dass eine zukunftsorientierte Lösung in den bereits existierenden Smartphones und Tablets schlummert. Aller Content bleibt cloud-basiert (passgenau zum Google-Geschäft), und ist daher höchstens konzeptionell vergleichbar mit Apples AirPlay."
- Wait, I Thought The Next Congressional Copyright Hearing Was Supposed To Be About Hearing From Creators? | Techdirt "William Sherak, Tor Hansen and John Lapham all work for or own companies that help creators -- a movie production house, a record label/distributor and a stock image company -- but that's different from being a content creator themselves. In fact, you could just as easily include tech company representatives here. If you have movie studios, why not someone from YouTube? If you have a record label, why not someone from Kickstarter or TopSpin?"
- Daring Fireball Linked List: Google Announces 70 Million Tablet Activations, Claims 1 in Every 2 Tablets Sold in 2013 Runs Android "I’m curious how Google squares these claims with all the usage share numbers that show Android tablets at far below 50 percent."
- Der Rundfunkbeitrag-Zahlungsstreik "Wir bestreiken eine Institution, die sich über den Auftrag der medialen Grundversorgung legitimiert und sich durch ihre Kritikresistenz von ihrem eigenen demokratischen Grundsatz entkoppelt hat. Die bestehenden öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehsender sind alles andere als staatsfern, denn ihre Gremien sind parteipolitisch dominiert. Sie unterscheiden sich nicht mehr von privatwirtschaftlichen Akteuren, denn sie orientieren sich vornehmlich an der Einschaltquote. Strukturell wie inhaltlich erfüllen sie unsere medialen Interessen nicht."
- law blog» Archiv » “Absolut unerträglich und unzulässig” "Tatsächlich sind wir bei Prism und Tempora momentan auf einem Niveau der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung, das knapp über dem Streit zu Google Street View liegt. Es wäre sicher falsch daraus zu schließen, dass den Menschen das Foto ihrer Hausfassade wirklich wichtiger ist als der Umstand, dass sie eines beträchtlichen Teils ihrer verfassungsrechtlich garantierten Rechte verlustig gegangen sind. In Lobreden auf das Grundgesetz müssen ja ohnehin künftig das Grundrecht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung sowie ein gutes Stück Menschenwürde ausgespart werden, will der Redner keine Heiterkeitsanfälle erzeugen."
- Apple shoppt Adressensortierer ‘Locationary’ – iPhoneBlog.de
- Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter | TorrentFreak
- US-Web-Traffic: iPads zurück auf 84-Prozent – iPhoneBlog.de "Es ist nicht die iPad-Dominanz, die hier erschreckt, sondern der anhaltende Stillstand unter allen Mitbewerbern"
- Q3/2013: 31.2 Millionen iPhones und 14.6 Millionen iPads – iPhoneBlog.de "Insgesamt vermerkte der US-Konzern 35.3 Milliarden US-Dollar an Umsatz. Der Nettogewinn beträgt 6.9 Milliarden US-Dollar oder 7.47 US-Dollar pro Aktie. Die Bruttogewinnspanne liegt bei 36.9-Prozent."
- NachDenkSeiten-Service: Verschlüsselung von Mails | NachDenkSeiten – Die kritische Website
- Canonical Goes Big In Attempt To Crowdfund Exclusive Ubuntu Phone
- Aus vier mach drei: Telefonica kauft e-Plus "Der Mobilfunkmarkt in Deutschland besteht dann demnächst nur noch aus drei Playern. Das wird sicher ganz viel Wettbewerb und tolle netzneutrale Angebote bringen."
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