Apple’s trouble with TV | Ars Technica
21 days ago
Apple needs to accept the things it cannot change and have the courage to change the things it can. Perhaps consumer reaction to this latest Apple TV device will finally give Steve Jobs the wisdom to tell the difference.
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21 days ago
Decline Of Reader Apps Likely Due To News Feed Changes, Shows Facebook Controls The Traffic Faucet | TechCrunch
24 days ago
Game developers know this lesson all too well. When Facebook’s app platform launched, it was a virality bonanza for developers because in-app activity prominently appeared in the news feed. Game devs flocked to Facebook, but soon it changed its news feed so game stories would only appear to other gamers. Suddenly, it was much harder to grow organically. You had to have a big marketing budget and apps to cross-promote from, like Zynga, to continue succeeding. Something similar may now be happening to news reader apps.
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24 days ago
Jeff Bezos Should Send Eric Holder a Christmas Card | Epicenter | Wired.com
7 weeks ago
So the Justice department’s findings turned out to essentially justify Amazon’s business model. Publishers setting fixed prices across all stores bear the sole blame for driving up e-book prices, and are tossed out. Device manufacturers locking in customers with hard or soft restrictions? Perfectly acceptable.
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7 weeks ago
Magazines Still Try To Hide The Real Impact of Advertising (by @baekdal) #opinion
7 weeks ago
"The digital world is one of data. If your data cannot demonstrate real results, you are out! CMOs can no longer afford to buy and forget. Providing real data is what gives you a competitive edge, and hiding them takes it away."
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7 weeks ago
Tim Harford — Article — Capital ways to survive the worst
8 weeks ago
And something we already knew: recovery is dependent on the availability of loans or grants. When disaster has destroyed every physical asset of your business, capital counts.
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8 weeks ago
Philippines: The country that never sleeps (or, When is the world working? The oDesk Edition) - A Computer Scientist in a Business School
8 weeks ago
I have cousins that work at help desks in the Philippines, and their work schedules are designed to match US time zones. After work, they hang out at bars with happy hours designed for them - I believe around ten in the morning. They hang out, then go home to sleep for the rest of the day. Globalisation at work.
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8 weeks ago
Why China Lags on Innovation and Creativity - Jobs & Economy - The Atlantic Cities
8 weeks ago
Worse, China’s overall technological and economic performance appears to be disconnected from its human capital and knowledge-based assets. Moving forward, China is likely to face substantial obstacles in transitioning from its current industrial stage of development to a more knowledge-based economy.
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8 weeks ago
Subtraction.com: The Mad Men Fairytale
9 weeks ago
“Mad Men” is a kind of bedtime story that media tells itself about how powerful it used to be. It’s something like the inflated tales of lost motherlands that immigrants tell their children; we’re in an age now when the landscape of “Mad Men” seems like a grand old folktale of kings and queens. This is what happens when old ways die; we start telling nostalgic fairy tales about what they used to be.
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9 weeks ago
Help Wanted - By Byron Auguste, Susan Lund, and James Manyika | Foreign Policy
10 weeks ago
"In the coming years, companies that can build up their own supplies of the best trained and motivated workers will win -- and so will the economies in which they operate."
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10 weeks ago
Why Are Harvard Grads in the Mailroom? : Planet Money : NPR
february 2012
Though a lottery economy is valuable to various industries, the thought of an entire lottery-based economy, in which a few people win big while the rest are forced to toil in an uncertain and not terribly remunerative dead-end labor pool, is unfair and politically scary. If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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february 2012
Warren Buffett's Investment Advice: Buy Things That Make More Things - Business - The Atlantic Wire
february 2012
“In God We Trust” may be imprinted on our currency, but the hand that activates our government’s printing press has been all too human.
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february 2012
Honeywell goes after Nest Learning Thermostat for patent infringement | The Verge
february 2012
The patents at issue in the case are related to the operation and programming of thermostats, and include some interesting claim coverage. Take a look for yourself:
U.S. Patent No. 7,634,504 - this patent was filed in 2006 (issued 2009) and covers displaying grammatically complete sentences while programming a thermostat.
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U.S. Patent No. 7,634,504 - this patent was filed in 2006 (issued 2009) and covers displaying grammatically complete sentences while programming a thermostat.
february 2012
Will the New Tech of 2012 Prove as Successful as the Tech of 1912? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
february 2012
"Sometimes, I look at the last century and I think, the most underrated part of their technologies were that they required lots of people doing bearable stuff for decent money."
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february 2012
Economics and Politics by Paul Krugman - The Conscience of a Liberal - NYTimes.com
january 2012
"But can we think of a recent example in the United States where helping to preserve an industrial cluster was an important policy consideration? Indeed we can: the auto bailout. A key argument for the bailout was that if the major US firms were allowed to go bankrupt, a whole industrial ecology would be lost with them. And the auto bailout has been a huge success, not least because it did preserve that ecology."
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january 2012
Introducing ICE: Writing for the Web First - NYTimes.com
january 2012
"That’s why our Web CMS team embarked on an ambitious project called Web First to turn that old publishing paradigm on its head. To have our journalists write and edit articles in the Web CMS, we needed a world-class text editor — one with almost all the features in the customized word processor used by our editors. And the must-have feature was the ability to track changes as an article moved through the editing process. "
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january 2012
The next SOPA – Marco.org
january 2012
"So maybe, instead of waiting for the MPAA’s next law and changing our Twitter avatars for a few days in protest, it would be more productive to significantly reduce or eliminate our support of the MPAA member companies starting today, and start supporting campaign finance reform."
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january 2012
Clive Thompson on the Instagram Effect | Magazine
january 2012
"Today’s tech is often blamed for producing a generation of people who stare at screens. But sometimes it opens up a new window on the world."
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instagram
january 2012
inessential.com: The Pummeling Pages
november 2011
I was there because I just wanted to read something. Words. Black text on a white background, more-or-less. And what I saw — at a professional publication, a site with the purpose of giving people something good to read — was just about the farthest thing from readable.
The site has good writing. But the pages do everything possible to convince people not to try. “Don’t bother,” the pages say. “It’s hopeless. Oh — and good luck not having a seizure!”
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The site has good writing. But the pages do everything possible to convince people not to try. “Don’t bother,” the pages say. “It’s hopeless. Oh — and good luck not having a seizure!”
november 2011
Amazon will take over Android app distribution – Marco.org
november 2011
A truly open facet of Android — the open-source codebase, minus Google’s apps — has enabled one company with a strong market position to step in, effectively close it, and make themselves the gatekeeper. And as gatekeepers go, Apple looks quite benevolent by comparison.
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november 2011
Tim Harford — Article — Music for love not money
november 2011
"Certainly there seems no objective justification for the idea that good music has simply dried up since file-sharing took off."
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november 2011
Newt Gingrich, the man who changed Washington - CNN.com
november 2011
"Gingrich concentrated the "work" of Congress into a three-day "work" week. He sent his caucus home for the rest of the week, in part so that they had time necessary to launch cross-country fundraising missions."
usa
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november 2011
Newsweek, Mired in Red Ink, Cancels Longtime Political Series - NYTimes.com
november 2011
"In the last few election years, the costs for Newsweek’s project were approaching $1 million, people involved with it said. The unusual structure essentially meant Newsweek had two political reporting teams working entirely separate from each other — a church-state divide in which the reporters shared a photographer but not their notes. The reporters writing for the weekly magazine would get much of their work done during the day while project writers would typically get their best material in the evening, often over long, expensive dinners out."
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november 2011
Kindle Fire review | The Verge
november 2011
"The company is definitely presenting a smoother path to buying content than any of the other guys. Now, I'm not saying that Amazon's method of displaying that content in the respective stores is superior to Apple's — I'm just saying that the experience of getting there and purchasing what you're looking for is nearly seamless."
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