"Today we got another important piece of the puzzle: As Apple announced earlier in the year, its new Mountain Lion OS will offer “AirPlay mirroring,” so Mac users can move whatever’s on their laptop or PC screen directly to their TV, using the Apple TV box as bridge.
But a lot of clever folks I pay attention to, including Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire, think that AirPlay will be a key part of the Apple TV experience."
"By foolishly insisting on DRM, and then selling to Amazon on a wholesale basis, the publishers handed Amazon a monopoly on their customers—and thereby empowered a predatory monopsony"
"I love the videos of professors, amateurs and instructors putting their courseware online. They are a great resource for interest driven learners like me. However, I wonder whether we should be structuring the future of learning as online universities where you are asked to do the equivalent of reading the encyclopedia from cover to cover online. Shouldn't we be looking at the Internet as an amazing network enabling "The Power of Pull" and be empowering kids to learn through building things together rather than assessing their ability to complete courses and produce the right "answers"?"
"Project Glass could hypothetically become Project Contact Lens. Mr. Parviz, who is also an associate professor at the University of Washington, specializes in bionanotechnology, which is the fusion of tiny technologies and biology. He most recently built a tiny contact lens that has embedded electronics and can display pixels to a person’s eye."
"But its separation from power is precisely what attracts many users. "Bitcoin is not run by people with hot sexual appetites for hotel maids. It is not run by corporations. It is not governed by people with budgets to meet. It is governed by a mathematical formula," one trader and Bitcoin enthusiast told Reuters over a pint of Guinness in London's financial district.""
"Thanks to a network of “moles” inside the company, this early retiree from Britain is posting on his website reports on shortcomings inside the world’s largest oil group. It’s a dogged pursuit that has already cost the Anglo-Dutch giant several billions."
"Still as the defections from FourSquare, Apple, and many smaller companies show, OpenStreetMap is starting to have some effect on Google Maps. Microsoft's embrace of open source mapping seems to be starting to work."
"Een lang verhaal kort. Nieuwsmakers hebben een koopman en regisseur nodig die niets anders doet dan de “marktwaarde” van verhalen bepalen, voortdurend, flexibel, met in- en verkoop. We maken een begin als we een “publiek” nieuws, nieuws dat iedereen uit duizend bronnen kent, gebruiken als “lokkertje” op gratis toegankelijke sites. En als we “uniek” nieuws achter een betaalhek zetten. Wat nu “diep” is, is het morgen niet meer, en omgekeerd, misschien. Maar hoe moeilijk kan het zijn dat te regisseren?"Kijkend naar bijvoorbeeld de digitale advertentie-industrie zou je kunnen stellen dat dergelijke real-time marktplaatsen misschien ook voor nieuws zou kunnen werken? Met beschikbare metadata en principes als targeting en automated trading, zou zo´n systeem ook prima moeten kunnen functioneren voor het verhandelen van nieuws (of content in het algemeen). Deze marktplaats zou kunnen starten met het aanbod van freelancers en persdiensten, content geproduceerd door redacties van uitgevers kan later volgen.
"There is no doubt in our minds that Apple will continue to advance the Siri, technology, and will create new breakthroughs in the virtual personal assistant (VPA) category overall. For example, it’s clear that Apple is capable of making a Siri API for application developers in the near term, enabling hundreds of thousands of applications to access their own assistant. Soon it will become de rigueur for all applications to offer spoken interaction and meaningful delegation. In fact, we consumers will be surprised and disappointed if or when they don’t."
"Choupis said she thought the network would have grown even faster that it has if people were not so "frozen, in a state of fear. It's like they've been hit over the head with a brick; they're dizzy. And they're cautious; they're still thinking: 'I need euros, how am I going to pay my bills?' But as soon as people see how much they can do without money, they're convinced.""
"Law360 is reporting a source has told them that the lot of 750 patents Facebook is buying from IBM "were licensed to Yahoo." That's the extent of the insider information, but not the questions it raises. Why would Facebook do this? Is this a smart move? There are probably more questions to consider, but let's start there and see where we end up."
"De bestedingen aan online maken 26% op van de totale advertentiebestedingen, die het afgelopen jaar neerkwamen op 4,095 miljard euro. In 2010 was dit nog 23%. De uitgaven aan display namen in 2011 toe met 11,2%. Het IAB verwacht dat dit jaar de bestedingen zullen doorgroeien naar 370 miljoen euro. De grootste groei in 2011 kwam echter van search, wat met 15,2% toenam naar 530 miljoen euro."
"The Britannica, the oldest continuously published encyclopedia in the English language, has become a luxury item with a $1,395 price tag. It is frequently bought by embassies, libraries and research institutions, and by well-educated, upscale consumers who felt an attachment to the set of bound volumes. Only 8,000 sets of the 2010 edition have been sold, and the remaining 4,000 have been stored in a warehouse until they are bought."
"It all started in 2004 when Sal Khan was working as a hedge fund analyst in Boston and his cousin Nadia, a 7th grader in New Orleans, was struggling with algebra. He agreed to tutor her remotely and wound up posting lessons on YouTube. They helped Nadia, but then an odd thing happened - total strangers started using them too."
"For all of the attention focused on online commerce, the market opportunity for “online to offline” commerce is way bigger. Online commerce is now a $200 billion industry, but it’s still small compared to offline transactions. Up to 70% of consumer spending is influenced by Web and mobile research, but over 90% of actual transactions are still conducted in the physical world."
"Bol.com behaalde in 2011 een omzet van 355 miljoen euro. De webwinkel biedt een assortiment aan producten zoals boeken, elektronica en speelgoed. Bol.com is naar eigen zeggen de meest bezochte retailwebsite van Nederland met 3,4 miljoen actieve klanten en in 2011 meer dan 17 miljoen verkochte artikelen."