Interesting Snippets

"Today Europe’s biggest newspaper, BILD-Zeitung, intends to use, in effect, brute force to compel..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:53:35 +0000

“Today Europe’s biggest newspaper, BILD-Zeitung, intends to use, in effect, brute force to compel users buy its new iPhone app. The paper tabloid is going to block anyone using an iPhone browser from accessing its website.”

- Europe’s biggest newspaper decides the iPhone browser isn’t welcome

"We see ourselves as a disruptor, because we are using new technology to solve real consumer problems..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:13:35 +0000

““We see ourselves as a disruptor, because we are using new technology to solve real consumer problems that in some cases people didn’t even realize could be solved.””

- YouTube - Google CEO: Recession is Behind Us

Google Street View Guys - CollegeHumor video

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:06:01 +0000

Google Street View Guys - CollegeHumor video

A trip into the secret, online ‘cloud’ - CNN.com

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:18:34 +0000

A trip into the secret, online ‘cloud’ - CNN.com

An Aerial Earth - Torontoist

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:14:27 +0000

An Aerial Earth - Torontoist

"Harvard professor David Yoffie estimated that in the months between announcing and selling the first..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:10:47 +0000

“Harvard professor David Yoffie estimated that in the months between announcing and selling the first iPhone in 2007, Apple received $400 million in free advertising by not making any public statements, thereby whipping the media into a frenzy”

- How Jobs transformed Apple - Nov. 5, 2009

"In the past 10 years alone (Steve Jobs) has radically and lucratively reordered three markets..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:04:57 +0000

“In the past 10 years alone (Steve Jobs) has radically and lucratively reordered three markets — music, movies, and mobile telephones — and his impact on his original industry, computing, has only grown. Remaking any one business is a career-defining achievement; four is unheard-of. Think about that for a moment. Henry Ford altered the course of the nascent auto industry. PanAm’s Juan Trippe invented the global airline. Conrad Hilton internationalized American hospitality. In all instances, and many more like them, these entrepreneurs turned captains of industry defined a single market that had previously not been dominated by anyone. The industries that Jobs has turned topsy-turvy already existed when he focused on them.”

- The decade of Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple - Nov. 5, 2009

"In the words of the economist Robert Fogel, “Just as electricity and manufacturing were the..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:56:09 +0000

“In the words of the economist Robert Fogel, “Just as electricity and manufacturing were the industries that stimulated the growth of the rest of the economy at the beginning of the 20th century, healthcare is the growth industry of the 21st century. It is a leading sector, which means that expenditures on healthcare will pull forward a wide array of other industries, including manufacturing, education, financial services, communications and construction.””

- Unemployment - Salon.com

Brave Boris to the rescue | The Sun |News

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:19:05 +0000

Brave Boris to the rescue | The Sun |News

"Google was built on a foundation of Larry’s and Sergey’s intellectual pursuits. Yahoo..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:17:13 +0000

“Google was built on a foundation of Larry’s and Sergey’s intellectual pursuits. Yahoo was built on the foundations of Jerry’s and David’s interests. And there’s a big gulf between those two”

- Ken Auletta: 10 things Google has taught us - Oct. 26, 2009

"Wolf, a German-born photographer, works in Hong Kong. But his wife and son live in Paris and he..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:43:10 +0000

“Wolf, a German-born photographer, works in Hong Kong. But his wife and son live in Paris and he travels there regularly. In his search for a new way of seeing the city, he clicked on Google Street View. He was captivated. “I spent hours each day, travelling virtually through the streets, looking at every square inch of Google’s robot pictures.” He loved their pixellated texture, set up his tripod in front of the computer and started shooting. The results are as spookily lightless as you might expect of reportage from a city of pixels.”

- Paris, a city of pixels | Art and design | The Guardian

"The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don’t do it. I have..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:39:25 +0000

“The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don’t do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.”

- humanity.org - voices - baker_at_connecticut

"YouTube’s webcast of a U2 concert was watched by nearly 10 million people"

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:24:37 +0000

“YouTube’s webcast of a U2 concert was watched by nearly 10 million people”

- The Associated Press: U2 concert is YouTube’s largest streaming event

"Gamers could be joining in a real televised sporting event from their homes early in 2010. Real Time..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:39:38 +0000

“Gamers could be joining in a real televised sporting event from their homes early in 2010. Real Time Race has been developing a system that places players side-by-side with the drivers in real races. The firm’s technology would map the circuit just before the race so the virtual track would match up to the one on TV”

- BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Video gamers to play for ‘real’

"half of Internet traffic in 2007 was generated by between 5,000 and 10,000 companies. Since then,..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:32:03 +0000

“half of Internet traffic in 2007 was generated by between 5,000 and 10,000 companies. Since then, however, a major aggregation of content has meant that just 150 companies are now responsible for the same amount of traffic on a”

- Just 30 firms dominate the internet - The Inquirer

"with last Friday’s upgrades to its News Feed and Live Feed features, Facebook also added a Reconnect..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:29:16 +0000

“with last Friday’s upgrades to its News Feed and Live Feed features, Facebook also added a Reconnect tool… Apparently, the Reconnect tool got a little cheeky and started suggesting reconnections with users’ exes, current spouses (”Um, wasn’t that what the weekend was for?” wrote Twitter user Davidwinfrey), as well as users’ deceased friends”

- On Facebook, Reconnecting with the Dead - Digits - WSJ

"Google Voice, which provides people with a single phone number that can be used to reach them on..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:18:33 +0000

“Google Voice, which provides people with a single phone number that can be used to reach them on their work, home, or cell phones, has 1.419 million users, according to the letter. Of those, 570,000 use it seven days a week”

- How Google Voice Is Growing - BusinessWeek

"The smartphone is the fifth limb we never knew we needed"

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:06:44 +0000

“The smartphone is the fifth limb we never knew we needed”

- Smartphone Showdown: iPhone 3GS vs Motorola Droid

"Iraqi refugees in Syria will receive UN food vouchers through text messages on mobile phones, the..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:58:58 +0000

“Iraqi refugees in Syria will receive UN food vouchers through text messages on mobile phones, the World Food Programme said Tuesday”

- AFP: UN to text message food vouchers to Iraqi refugees

"Telecom executive: Once upon a time, there weren’t any water meters in California. Now most of..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:11:17 +0000

“Telecom executive: Once upon a time, there weren’t any water meters in California. Now most of the major cities have them, and they’ll be required everywhere in a couple of years. Something that was once unlimited became limited, and people learned to conserve. Web executive: The difference is, I can read my water meter. You make a ton of money when people exceed their minutes or message limits, and you don’t warn them before they do it. If you play the same game with Internet traffic, it’ll scare people away from using the mobile web”

- Mobile Opportunity: A web guy and a telecom guy talk about net neutrality