Via www.cnn.com
„Historically, anything that's new and different can be seen as a threat in terms of the religious beliefs; almost all religious systems are about permanence"
Liberalism, Atheism, and IQ
The article states that current research indicates a (statistically significant though not extraordinary) correlation between liberalism / atheism and intelligence.
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„Whatever anyone says about Apple, if it wasn't for Steve Jobs there would be no legitimate music online.
Everybody was lost. The record labels were frozen. When he came up with iTunes, it gave us a [legal] way to get the license ready to go online.
Before iTunes, Napster was out of business for two or three years, and then Kazaa and other file sharing started. There was no legitimate way to buy music. I think his impact on music has been extraordinary. "
Much like Apple saved the music industry with the iPod & iTunes combination, I'm quite confident that they're now en route to save the dying newspaper business with the upcoming tablet. Whatever one might think about Apple: For the valuable sake of keeping journalism alive, let's hope they succeed.
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Via www.wired.com
„In a space that’s crowded with several players, a definitive loss would be the complete failure and disappearance of a company. Zachary and Schobel are both betting Palm will be the first to go. Palm’s WebOS runs on the Palm Pre, and the company currently possesses 0 percent market share, according to Gartner, who predicts WebOS’ market share will only grow 1.4 percent in the next three years.
The company’s smartphone market share continues to shrink, and Zachary said he previously thought Palm would eventually be acquired by a larger company, such as Samsung, to develop mobile operating systems in-house. However, because Google hands out Android as a free, open source OS, this decreases the value of Palm as an acquisition target.
“Who I’m really scared for is Palm,” Schobel said. “They’re dead.”"
As mentioned earlier, I fear the same. It's sad, because WebOS is a great Platform – just still in its infancy.
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„Unconsciously, everyone expects a startup to be like a job, and that explains most of the surprises. It explains why people are surprised how carefully you have to choose cofounders and how hard you have to work to maintain your relationship. You don't have to do that with coworkers. It explains why the ups and downs are surprisingly extreme. In a job there is much more damping. But it also explains why the good times are surprisingly good: most people can't imagine such freedom. As you go down the list, almost all the surprises are surprising in how much a startup differs from a job."
Very nice essay on the differences between operating a startup and a regular job.
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„We can't make money selling the desktop that's why we focused on a zero licensing cost business model"
Mark Shuttleworth puts it spot-on.
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Via bygonebureau.com
„When I arrived in Hamburg, I felt somewhat disappointed in its lack of “Old European” history. I wanted to immerse myself in gothic architecture and struggling artists but found prostitutes instead."
An American moving to Hamburg.
Great reflections on Hamburg and emigration from a expatriates perspective.
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Via en.wikipedia.org
„Patrons were lured to an event billed as cage fighting, held at a Convention Center, by print and Craigslist advertisements, promoting "hot girls", $1 beer and $5 admission. 1500 people attended the event, and were greeted by signs that informed them that they were being filmed. No cell phones, video, or cameras were allowed inside. Instead of hot girls and cage fighting, the acts taking place became homosexual in nature, and people threw chairs and beer at the performers."
New Sascha Cohen Movie.
The new Sascha Cohen aka Borat, Ali G Movie already made me smile. I have great expectations. I hope he won't someday get shot during his endeavours of exposing the ugly sides of society
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Via arstechnica.com
„The results suggest that a familiarity with Windows dialogs have bred a degree of contempt and that users simply don't care what the boxes say anymore."
Most users are idiots.
This displays a problem I have long experienced myself. However being rather aquainted with PC's it didn't affect me too much. But someone without the obvious technical knowledige will likely just confirm every possible dialog, which explains the current state of virii, phishing and malware from a users point of view – without any major need of critizing the vendors.
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„The command interface is conceptually similar to desktop launcher tools like Enso, Quicksilver, and GNOME-Do. Unlike those tools, it places a strong emphasis on web content manipulation and web services. In many ways, it's like an interactive mash-up system. Ubiquity can respond to user instructions in several different ways. It can directly alter the contents of a web page, it can manipulate the browser interface, it can load a page in a new tab, and it can display output in a notification pop-up."
Ubiquity, a new Firefox extension from Mozilla Labs.
First the new Javascript Engine, which surpasses Squirrelfish by large amounts, now this. As much as I love Safari, if Firefox continues to add exciting features at such a strong pace, I seriously have to consider switching back to the beloved fox.
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„fear of switching is the foundation of customer loyalty for PCs."
From a Get-a-Mac Add. Tough one.
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I work on several web projects and Mac software, enjoy good design, love to make music or take pictures, try to blog or microblog in my spare time and am an avid user of Social Networks. Apart from that I study Communication Science and am mostly interested in the relationships between the influence of the Social Web on Advertisement and Public Relations seen from a entertainment-oriented and cultural perspective.