Month: June 2012
June 30, 2012
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Infringement and Innovation in Online Platforms
I want to dilate slightly on a point I made in a recent post at the Cato blog thinking about the Megaupload takedown and online innovation: The last innovation is always safe. That’s why it’s easy to claim concrete examples of the harm regulation might do are hyperbolic fearmongering: Nobody’s going…
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June 29, 2012
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Former Apple Retail Exec Reinvents the Car Buying Experience – Forbes
The all-electric Tesla Model S is turning heads at the Detroit Auto Show this week. If you want to learn more about the car you might consider heading to the mall. That’s right, Tesla stores are being built where consumers live part of their lives—at the shopping mall. It’s a design philosophy that…
June 28, 2012
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The graduate!
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The graduate!
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The Only Lasting Competitive Advantage Is Extreme Trust | Fast Company
This past Christmas season Amazon stole business from brick-and-mortar retailers with its free Price Check app for iPhone and Android. With Price Check, your phone could scan the barcode on any product in any retail store, or simply take a picture of it, and then compare its price with Amazon’s.…
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#zombiemail RT @junebug Love the giant “EMAIL LIVES” slide @ #ETConnect because despite reports every year otherwise it just keeps going.
June 27, 2012
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Average Is Over – NYTimes.com
In an essay, entitled “Making It in America,” in the latest issue of The Atlantic , the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the…
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I’m an early tech adopter. The numbers do not lie!
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June 26, 2012
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These pretzels are making me thirsty.
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Seven Lessons from SOPA/PIPA/Megaupload and Four Proposals on Where We Go From Here | TechPresident
We are pleased to publish this guest post on the lessons of the SOPA/PIPA/Megaupload fight by Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and author of The Wealth of Networks and The Penguin and…
June 25, 2012
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“Wildberries” is my new jam.
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How Speeding The “Most Important Algorithm Of Our Lifetime” Could Change This Modern World | Fast Company
Last week at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) a new way of calculating Fast Fourier Transforms was presented by a group of MIT researchers. It’s possible that under certain situations it may be up to ten times faster than the current way we do these.…
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Talking Less, Paying More for Voice – Yahoo! Finance
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Why are MVNOs so hot right now? Thank the carriers — Mobile Technology News
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June 24, 2012
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#thenewsroom (like all Sorkin) is Competence Porn. Love it.
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Agile Backlogs. Sigh. | Tiny Giant Books
ScrumMaster Series Frederick Taylor, the man most responsible for the terrible state of most Agile backlogs. What a mess Frederick Taylor created. We can’t blame him completely, of course. He was just an engineer born in the mid 1800s who asked a simple question: “Why don’t we break up industrial…
June 23, 2012
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Research Shows That the Smarter People Are, the More Susceptible They Are to Cognitive Bias : The New Yorker
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The Curse of Political Purity by Garry Wills | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
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Why I Hate Dreams by Michael Chabon | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
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The Pokayoke Guide to Developing Software
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Study of the Day: Why Crowded Coffee Shops Fire Up Your Creativity – Health – The Atlantic
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Daring Fireball: Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place
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Most new gTLDs could be closed shops | DomainIncite – Domain Name News & Opinion
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What’s .Google want with 101 new .domains, anyway?
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The SOPA War: A Frantic Call, an Aborted Summit, and Dramatic New Details on How Hollywood Lost – The Hollywood Reporter
THR goes inside the piracy battle with MPAA president Chris Dodd as the industry wonders what went wrong and how to fix its battered image. This story originally appeared in the Feb. 3 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. In the desperate hours of early January, with chatter spreading that the White…
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We’re also visiting the Guggenheim on this trip – another one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s career-defining buildings.
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Just booked tix for something on my bucket list! I’m visiting Fallingwater in July with @lucyschafer and @zoeschafer.
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