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File-Sharing Prospers Despite Tougher Laws
torrentfreak.com
Most probably due to Sweden’s historic connections with The Pirate Bay, many Swedes consider file-sharing to be an activity deeply embedded in popular culture. Determined to break the plundering habits of these misguided souls, the US movie and recording industries have continuously meddled in the country, lobbying for tougher responses...
Social apps & doing the right thing
gigaom.com
For the past week or so, our little corner of the Internet has been abuzz with news of mobile apps uploading iPhone address books without asking us — the iPhone (and address book) owners. It all started with Path, a much talked about iPhone app that offers a very limited...
Do The Right Thing
parislemon.com
Twitter’s decision to implement the Innovator’s Patent Agreement could not have been an easy one. While it’s refreshingly straightforward and an obvious crowd-pleaser, it potentially puts the company in a bit of a vulnerable position. What if no one else adopts the policy? They’ll stand alone with their pants partially...
Air Force Grounds Plan for Cockpit iPads
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So much for the U.S. Air Force’s big iPad buy. The Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) on Wednesday canceled without explanation a plan to buy nearly 3,000 iPad 2s to be used as electronic flight bags. Announced in January, the initiative would have seen AFSOC purchase 2,861 iPad 2s...
John Browett starts new role as Apple Retail SVP
9to5mac.com
When we told you all about Apple’s new retail senior vice president John Browett, appointed to replace J.C. Penney CEO Ron Johnson, in January, we knew Browett would be moving to Cupertino sometime in April to begin his new role. It looks like Apple has now officially welcomed Browett to...
Amid growing pains, Etsy raises $40 million
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The day before thousands of Etsy members plan to protest the online marketplace over what can be considered handmade, the NY-based startup announced that it had raised an additional $40 million in funding, bringing its total funding to about $91 million. The new round of capital was led by Index...
Would You Rather Be 'Right' Or Realistic?
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We recently wrote about the excellent comic from Matthew Inman's The Oatmeal to highlight how companies turn would-be buyers into infringers by not making the content available. Here's a snippet. In response, some folks sent over columnist Andy Ihnatko's response, in which he suggests the comic is actually representative of...
Twitter Founder Biz Stone Gives 7 Rules To Live By
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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone makes all Twitter employees adopt the following seven rules when they join the company, he said during a speech this week in Las Vegas. He said that all people make assumptions even though making assumptions can lead to trouble, reports OpenSource.com. So if you're going...
One Good Movie, New Betaworks Project, Recommends One Movie Which You May or May Not Think Is Good
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Do you love or hate this movie? (onegoodmovie.com) A tipster sent us the link to One Good Movie, a very basic recommendation service from the team at Betaworks. "Each day, we recommend one good movie to watch in a short and sweet email," the site says. "Our pitches are fun. They're...
Discussion On Consent of the Networked, By Rebecca MacKinnon: The Techdirt Book Club
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As promised, here is our discussion with Rebecca MacKinnon, the author of Consent of the Networked, a fascinating book about the fine balance online today between the ability to use the internet for amazingly positive activism... as well as the threats of those who seek to control and limit the...
'App-gate' serves reminder: You're on your own
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Until all this gets figured out, why would anyone trust Apple, developers or Congress to do the right thing?...
Startup Secret 47: Do the right thing
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A startup guy dips way too far into personal funds for his startup, but you can't argue with the outcome. [Read more]...
Ron Johnson: Retailing is hard, but Steve told me to trust my intuition and do the right thing
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Sleepless Nights, Paddling Like Hell and Never “Turning it Off”: Friday Inspiration for Founders
pandodaily.com
Founding a startup is gut wrenching and euphoric in a way that outside observers are unable to comprehend. That’s what makes Ecquire CEO Paul DeJoe’s recent Quora answer to the question, “What does it feel like to be the CEO of a start-up?” one of the most moving and...
Help Create An 'Innovation Agenda' You Wish Politicians Would Support
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Join the discussion over at Step 2 In the last few months it's become clear that it's no longer acceptable for politicians to "not get" the internet. The internet has become such a key part of our lives that anyone who is trying to regulate it without understanding it...
Coolers are exhausting, but in which direction?
www.extremetech.com
I stood there, immobile, peering into the case. Try as I might, I couldn’t block out the bickering echoing all around me.“…Sure, it’s probably fine. But it might be better the other way.”“Dude, it doesn’t matter.”“You don’t know that! If I turn it, the logo will be right-side-up.”“That’s a better...
SocialToo Expands Twitter Phishing Protection to All Users
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Increased use of Twitter has made the users sharing and clicking on links more attractive to both legitimate businesses and ill intended people looking to steal passwords or guide you to unsavory sites. Seemingly each week there are new stories about phishing attempts that prey on direct messages (DMs) from...
Hoisted from my Buzz
piaw.blogspot.com
This started off as a post on Buzz, but then I realized that most people probably neither read nor follow my Buzz/Reader feeds (which is admitted a torrent of information that more than one person has complained about not being able to follow). Google has just handed out a Founders'...
10 things you won’t learn in school
entrepreneur.venturebeat.com
(Editor’s note: Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher are partners with AKF Partners and have recently published The Art of Scalability. They submitted this story to VentureBeat.) You can learn a lot of things in the classroom. A lot of the knowledge you’ll glean comes in the form of facts (or...
In Defense of the Unabashedly Profitable
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(Editor's note: This post is part of the HBR Debate "What Does Business Owe the World?") A business is not a family or a charity or a government. It has a specific social function with a specific purpose, which implies specific duties. One of its responsibilities — its duties —...
Twitter Raising The Infrastructure: App Builders Better Run For The Ultrastructure
www.stoweboyd.com
So, Fred Wilson's recent blog post (see Fred Wilson Plotting Twitter's Future) turns out not to have been the ramblings of philosophical market observer: it looks more like the starter's gun at the outset of a footrace. He suggested that Twitter might start to fill 'holes' in its architecture, holes...
PS Vita Price War Is Good for Pre-Orders
www.wired.com
PS Vita Launch Purchase (image: flickr/ladyous) As we get closer to the launch of the PS Vita ($249.99) retailers start to work harder to win our business. As an early adopter it’s actually one of my favorite times in the console cycle. I can pick and choose where I put...
Zynga Tries To Do The Right Thing, Gets Whipped Anyway
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Where Does Android Register on Google's "Evil" Meter?
www.readwriteweb.com
As we mentioned briefly last night, Google is going to attempt to reintegrate Android into the main Linux kernel - the code had been booted in December because it was "no longer being cared for," according to Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Novell developer who maintains the staging, USB and driver core...
What the Betamax Case Teaches Us About Readability
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The Betamax SL6500! I totally had this model!!!Several really smart people in our industry are arguing very publicly right now about a company called Readability and how great and/or evil their service is. One side thinks what Readability does is wrong, and by extension, that the company’s founders are immoral....
Making The Case For PR Pros Editing Wikipedia
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Obscured amidst the hysteria over anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA has been a valuable discussion bubbling up within public relations about PR people editing clients’ Wikipedia entries. It’s a topic that has been debated for years. From Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales stating in 2006 that “PR firms editing Wikipedia is...
"It was the last straw,” he said, pointing out that he and his family were visited repeatedly by the..."
parislemon.com
““It was the last straw,” he said, pointing out that he and his family were visited repeatedly by the police before they left the Soviet Union when he was 6 years old.” - Google’s Not Creating Content, Just Protecting It - NYTimes.com People can continue to say what they want...
"It was the last straw,” he said, pointing out that he and his family were visited repeatedly by the..."
Facebook Preparing To Release Simple Privacy Settings
www.allfacebook.com
Facebook’s Public Policy Director, Tim Sparapani, spoke with Kojo Nnamdi today in Washington, D.C. and stated that the company would soon release simple privacy settings in the coming weeks. In addition to defending the company’s position for providing an extensive number of privacy settings (a position which is legitimate), Sparapani...
Artists: SoundExchange Has Free Money For You, No Nigerian Princes Involved
www.fastcompany.com
Since its inception, SoundExchange, the organization that collects royalty payments from digital music services like Pandora, has brought in more than $900 million--$292 million of which it collected last year alone. But how much of a cut does SoundExchange take for itself? Nothing, other than for operating and administrative costs....
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