Tag: business

Nieman Journalism Lab – Baseless speculation! Frank Rich and the price of paywalls for writers
Good point to recognize this difference, but the point must still be made that both need to be paid, and half to find a system that enables writers and publishers to make money off the content.
April 2, 2011
The Firewall – Color App Hack Lets You Spy On Anyone’s Photos Anywhere
Bah privacy, what an overrated concept.
March 28, 2011
Technologizer – Swoopo Quietly Files for Bankruptcy
So happy to see this company fail, this was a despicable business model.
March 26, 2011
CrunchGear – Record Industry: Limewire Could Owe $75 Trillion – Judge: “Absurd”
The judge has exactly the right idea, absurd indeed.
March 24, 2011
PHP Fog Blog – How We Got Owned by a Few Teenagers (and Why It Will Never Happen Again)
Incredible detail into what happened and thoroughly explained how it will never happen again and how they are much more secure moving forward.
March 22, 2011
PLATO History – Yet another PLATO innovation ignored, this time patented by Google
Even Google submits stupid and ridiculous patents, for stuff already “invented”.
March 22, 2011
NYTimes.com – Whatever Nuclear Power’s Threat, No Easy Alternatives
Not typically known but true, especially when taking into account the pollutants that coal plants emit.
March 20, 2011
furbo.org – Twitterrific firsts
Third party clients have been at the forefront of the Twitter experience for many years, that differentiation and unique spin on the Twitter stream is what drove many of Twitter’s core functionality today.
March 15, 2011
The Next Web – Twitter explains why developers shouldn’t build new clients
So basically Twitter is going to push hard into developing/perfecting official Twitter clients, so everyone else we’re coming after your business model, switch, differentiate or be dead in the water.
March 13, 2011
Contrast – Designing your sign up page
The initial sign-up page is the hardest for me to judge in terms of effectiveness.
March 13, 2011