BBC News – Google kills off seven more products including Wave
Google has announced that it is dropping seven more products in an effort to simplify its range of services.The out-of-season “spring clean” brings an end to services including Google Wave, Knol and...
View ArticleArs Technica – Google drops the axe on its internal renewable energy work
So although RE < C wasn’t misguided, its cancellation isn’t going to have a discernible impact on the renewable energy field, since companies that specialize in this field were outperforming it....
View ArticleShifty Jelly’s blog of mystery – You Guys Are Millionaires Right?
It’s a problem, always has been in the software industry. As a kid I pirated all my software, because I felt like these were giant, faceless corporations that didn’t need my money, and I had no money...
View ArticleFarukAt.eş – Micro-payments And The Web
In 2003, Apple’s iTunes Store proved an important point about online/digital economies: people are perfectly willing to pay for content they consume, as long as you maximize return value and minimize...
View ArticleThe Year of C.E.O. Failures Explained — NYTimes.com
Last spring, I taught a class at the Columbia Business School called “What Makes a Hit a Hit—and a Flop a Flop.” I focused on consumer-tech success stories and disasters.I distinctly remember the day I...
View ArticleSubtraction.com – Subscribing to The New York Times
The total customer experience here is haphazard at best, and, at worst — I hate to say this because I am still friendly with many people at the company, but in truth there’s no way around it — it’s...
View ArticleO’Reilly Radar – The President’s challenge
All I can think is: we gave you the Internet. We gave you the Web. We gave you MP3 and MP4. We gave you e-commerce, micropayments, PayPal, Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, the iPad, the iPhone, the laptop, 3G,...
View ArticleApple Outsider – Hollywood Still Hates You
Hollywood continues to completely ignore that lesson. It continues to punish the people who play by the rules with an insufferable customer experience. This is the sole reason piracy is up and profits...
View ArticleThe Word of Notch – On Patents
But there is no way in hell you can convince me that it’s beneficial for society to not share ideas. Ideas are free. They improve on old things, make them better, and this results in all of society...
View ArticleApp Cubby Blog – The Sparrow Problem
Given the incredible progress and innovation we’ve seen in mobile apps over the past few years, I’m not sure we’re any worse off at a macro-economic level, but things have definitely changed and...
View ArticleYahoo Buys Tumblr
I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr! We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr...
View ArticleVermont Sues Patent Troll Over Small Business Shakedowns
Well, this is good news. The state of Vermont has decided to join private companies like Twitter in taking the fight to patent trolls — shell companies that don’t do anything except use old patents to...
View ArticleAmazon Takes On Facebook and Google With Its Own Login Service for...
Amazon launched a new service called ‘Login with Amazon’ today that lets its 200 million active customers sign-in to apps, games and websites created by third-party developers using their existing...
View ArticleOracle Switches Berkeley DB License
Oracle is entirely within its rights to change the license without warning; the company owns the full copyright to the code. But many will view the change as a hostile act intended to force them into a...
View ArticleDatastore API
These days, your app needs to store and sync more than just files. With the Datastore API, structured data like contacts, to-do items, and game state can be synced effortlessly. Datastores work across...
View ArticleWho Owns Your Data When You’re Dead?
After we die, our bodies are reduced to dust or ash, through burial or cremation. The fate of the digital corpuses we leave behind is rather more complicated. Before the advent of internet-hosted...
View ArticleThe Web’s longest nightmare ends: Eolas patents are dead on appeal
The inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, had never testified in court before last year. In February 2012, he left Cambridge to fly down to Tyler, an east Texas city of about 100,000, to testify at a...
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