Nielsen: Cord Cutting And Internet TV Viewing On The Rise
12 days ago
More and more US households use broadband internet, but cut their TV subscriptions and switch to free broadcasts only. Now that doesn't necessarily mean that TV is over, but it certainly indicates that consumers use different channels to get their TV series shots.
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12 days ago
NYTimes: The Death of the Cyberflâneur
17 days ago
Whatever happened to the vision of an internet roamed by Cyberflâneurs?
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17 days ago
Imperica: The future of the future
21 days ago
Leila Johnston and Chris Heathcote discuss the future of ... the future, and of advertising. As our notion of the future has become very much blurry compared to the 50s, their grasp of the current state of futurism is a must read. Along the way we learn that advertising can stay relevant, particularly if it fulfills a need beyond just advertising a product.
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21 days ago
NYTimes: Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China
27 days ago
An alarming article about the human costs of our gadget lust. While we won't pretend that we'd stop buying gadgets anytime soon, this investigative piece is an urgent reminder that we should demand higher labor standards from Apple & Co.
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27 days ago
PEW: Tablet and e-book reader ownership surge in the holiday gift-giving period
27 days ago
In a few years, we might look at the last holiday season and mark it as the breakthrough point for tablets and ebooks: In the US, tablet and ebook ownership each nearly doubled from mid-December to early January from 10% to 19%. The share of Americans who own at least one of these devices is now at almost a third. From kinda-niche to full-on mainstream in 3 weeks.
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27 days ago
Nielsen Wire: 40% of Tablet and Smartphone Owners Use Them While Watching TV
27 days ago
While TV consumption is on the rise, increasingly people don't watch TV exclusively anymore. (As if they ever did.) 40% of tablet and smartphones owners use their devices while watching TV. That's almost half - broadcasters better take that into account when planning their programming.
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27 days ago
The Pirate Bay: Evolution
4 weeks ago
The Pirate Bay goes physical, announces to also share blueprints for 3D models: "We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles." Expect to print your own knock-off Legos soon.
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4 weeks ago
Reuters: Facebook's newest frontier: inside the car
5 weeks ago
Facebook is extending to new platforms, namely TVs and cars. These announcements around CES is an indicator of ever-increasing overlap of some so-far largely separated spheres. Publishers and broadcasters have long been looking into getting their products ready for Social Primetime. More recently, the automotive industry has realized that the cars they build should be made a platform - CarOS, so to speak. Getting a slimmed-down version of Facebook on your Mercedes Benz is one early step into that direction.
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5 weeks ago
Golem.de: Quantified Self: Ich tracke, also bin ich
5 weeks ago
We wrote two articles for Golem (in German). #1 is live now.
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5 weeks ago
Big Spaceship : 2011: What We Learned
5 weeks ago
In a pretty neat summary of learnings of the last year, the Big Spaceship teams reflects on the day-to-day agency work as well as a litmus test for quality, cutting out distractions, the merits of offline time and saying "I don't know" more often.
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5 weeks ago
German Hackers Are Building a Popular Science: DIY Space Program to Put Their Own Uncensored Internet into Space
5 weeks ago
In a somewhat larger-than-usual DIY project, a group of hackers and IT experts announced plans to build an alternative infrastructure for uncensored internet. Meet The Hackerspace Global Grid, a network of communication satellites that serves as the new backbone. Welcome to the future, everyone.
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5 weeks ago
Email is not Dead
5 weeks ago
stats etc about email, and how it's use is changing
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TechCrunch: Payoff.com Raises $2M, ‘Gamifies’ Personal Finance Management
6 weeks ago
Payoff adds a game layer to personal financing, essentially trying to create incentives to work towards individual financial goals. While they have been working on this since 2009, a new round of financing seems to verify the concept. Gamification has officially reached personal finance.
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6 weeks ago
Fast Company: This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business
6 weeks ago
Excellent article about the way the world is changing with increasing speed, and in increasingly chaotic ways: "The next decade or two will be defined more by fluidity than by any new, settled paradigm; if there is a pattern to all this, it is that there is no pattern. The most valuable insight is that we are, in a critical sense, in a time of chaos."
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6 weeks ago
Google Books / Weekly World News
6 weeks ago
Archive of the discontinued Weekly World News.
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6 weeks ago
The Next Web: Luxembourg VAT Cut is Good for Amazon, but Not the UK
6 weeks ago
Without making much fuss, Luxembourg cut the VAT, and in effect ebook prices for consumers. Ebooks, unlike paper books, are subject to full VAT across the EU. So this could change market dynamics quite a bit: Both Amazon and Apple sell their ebooks from Luxembourg, and might now be able to undercut local book prices.
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6 weeks ago
CNN: Digital music sales top physical sales
6 weeks ago
Digital music purchases accounted for 50.3% of music sales in 2011. That's a first, and proves beyond any doubt that consumers are willing to pay for online content, and that the CD won't be missed for long. Now the big question is: Will we see music purchases rise further, or see on demand streaming take over? In other words, is it ownership or access to music that consumers are willing to pay for?
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6 weeks ago
NYTimes.com: Internet Access Is Not a Human Right
6 weeks ago
Vint Cerf, one of the original inventors of the internet, says the internet should not be a human right. Sounds outrageous? The point Cerf makes is an excellent one, actually: It's important not to protect the tool, but rather its empowering qualities. A must read.
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6 weeks ago
GigaOM: You are what you curate: Why Pinterest is hawt
6 weeks ago
A nice overview of a trend that's been surging for awhile now, and is still gathering steam: Online content curation. Focusing on Pinterest, GigaOM explains why curation services are so successful and why we can expect a wave of services that make curation even more streamlined and structured.
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6 weeks ago
Clay Shirky: Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users
6 weeks ago
Newspapers have been experimenting with paid vs free content for a number of years, sometimes more, often less successfully. Clay Shirky thinks that 2012 might be the year where newspaper economics could start working out. That is, they might work out once newspapers stop treating all news as a product and all readers as customers.
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6 weeks ago
brand eins: Das digitale Urheberrecht steht am Abgrund
6 weeks ago
Brand Eins, certainly one of the best business magazines in Germany, inquires into the way copyright works - or fails to work - in a digital context. It's a long, in-depth interview in German. Well worth reading.
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