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- 3ders.org - Makible working on $300 3D Printer | 3D printing news "What is Makible? It is a Hong Kong based startup company aiming to create a community collaboration system that allows anyone to submit ideas, work together on projects and share profits."
- “Inspired” by Apple
- For The 5th Year In A Row, Apple Wins CES. Before It Starts. Without Showing Up. | TechCrunch Eine ganze Branche läuft einem Unternehmen hinterher: "Part of this will be the fault of the companies actually at CES. Oh look, an iMac clone. Oh look, a MacBook Air clone. And another one. And another one. Don’t forget the blatant MacBook Pro rip-offs too! And a few iPhone rip-offs for good measure. And 35 “iPad killers” that will ultimately kill themselves."
- Seth's Blog: The artificiality of time "The web is asynchronous. Time frames have accelerated (started/funded/built/sold!) at the same time they have slowed down. It's up to you to decide how long your time horizon is--perhaps you're willing to invest five years into building a solid reputation on a web platform. The decision to work at a different rate than others can be a significant competitive advantage."
- Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago | John Battelle's Search Blog "It’s now clear that Twitter’s path is one of independence. To succeed, it must become the Swiss bank of social intent, providing its services in some kind of useful way to each and every one of the Big Five."
- Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss — Tech News and Analysis go for the fences: "Building a profitable small-market company is difficult and carries a high risk of failure. Building a profitable large-market company is also difficult and carries a high risk of failure. But the marginal risk in building a company decreases as the addressable market increases. While a larger company may require more total work, the relative effort is less. Make no mistake: small-market companies still come with 18 hour days, flaky vendors, upset customers, and exasperated spouses."
- Ein einsamer Zweikampf… – iPhoneBlog.de "Überspitzt ausgedrückt: RIM stirbt auf Raten, Nokia und Windows Phone spielen noch keine Rolle, HTC sowie Motorola straucheln und an Samsung hängt der Zweikampf zwischen iOS und Android."
- SOPA und die Selbstzensur: Kein Wunder, dass die US-Medien schweigen | avatter "Zum Thema “Stop Online Piracy Act” und “SOPA” habe ich in den Mediatheken von ARD, ZDF, 3sat, NDR, SWR, WDR und ARTE jedenfalls nichts gefunden. Hier glaube ich allerdings noch nicht an politisches Kalkül, sondern vielmehr an reguläres Desinteresse."
- Why SOPA Would Be A Disaster For Scientific Publishing | Techdirt
- Daring Fireball: Spaghetti Against the Wall "So Jony Ive leads the design team at the two most-profitable phone makers. Impressive." hehehe
- The incredible shrinking TV replacement cycle — Online Video News "As more and more “smart” TVs enter the market, the applications and app development frameworks available on the first generation of Internet-ready televisions will find themselves eclipsed by more powerful and attractive options. In the same way that consumers upgrade their mobile and computing devices for those with more features and processing power, they could soon find themselves replacing those early connected TVs to take advantage of new applications and capabilities."
- Apple’s Siri Feature Doubles IPhone Data Usage - Bloomberg "Arieso’s research showed that a minority of users account for half of downloaded data. About one percent of the high-use subscribers downloaded half of the data volumes, according to the company. “The hungry are getting hungrier,” Flanagan said."
- Samsung Quarterly Profit Rises as Galaxy Phones Lure Consumers From Apple - Bloomberg "Mobile-phone sales surpassed a record 300 million units last year as Galaxy smartphones helped win consumers amid competition with Apple Inc.’s iPhone. Samsung, which sold its hard-disk drive business to Seagate Technology Plc, is introducing more mobile devices to offset slumping profits at the chip and flat-screen panel businesses."
- heise online | Immer mehr Linux auf dem Desktop "Seit dem vergangenen Sommer ist der Marktanteil von Linux auf dem Desktop um über 40 Prozent gestiegen, zeigt der jüngste NetMarketShare-Bericht von Net Applications. Zwischen Dezember 2010 und Juli 2011 erreichte Linux zwischen 0,95 und 1,0 Prozent Marktanteil, im Dezember 2011 lief das freie Betriebssystem auf 1,41 Prozent der erfassten Desktop-Systeme."
- Nick Bradbury: Hateful Hiring "I agree with 37signals that the best way to gauge the potential success of a programmer is to see what they've already done, even if it's just side projects they worked on in college. Interviewing via a white board is like deciding how good a musician is by asking them to write tablature instead of listening to them play."
- Die Vermessung des Selbst - Wie die Quantified-Self-Technologie aus | Forschung und Gesellschaft | Deutschlandradio Kultur "Medizinische Informationen waren lange Zeit nur Ärzten und Experten vorbehalten. Die so genannte Quantified-Self-Bewegung will nun das Wissen über unseren Körper und unsere Gesundheit demokratisieren - mithilfe neuer Technologien."
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