Daily Archives: March 10, 2012

Live Drawing SXSW: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

March 10, 2012

In our last drawn session of the day, Dr. Peter Diamandis shares his vision of an abundant world. The gap between the haves and have nots is staggering, but Dr. Diamandis expects a world of automation, AI and other amazing technologies will create an environment that meets everyone’s needs, abundantly. @visualhero captured the session...

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Google’s reaction leads Brazil’s royalties collection agency to back down, claiming “error”

March 10, 2012

It has been the talk of the week on the Brazilian Internet; the royalties collection agency ECAD claimed copyright fees from a blog that had done nothing more than embedding YouTube music videos. This interpretation immediately raised a considerable amount of concern and criticism in Brazil – not only from bloggers, but also from Google itself....

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Paul Graham Wants You To Build A New Search Engine, Inbox, Or Be The Next Steve Jobs

March 10, 2012
Paul Graham Wants You To Build A New Search Engine, Inbox, Or Be The Next Steve Jobs

As a founding partner at Y Combinator, Paul Graham has seen countless startup pitches. In a new essay, called “Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas,” Graham makes the case that the ideas with the most disruptive potential also happen to be frightening due to the sheer ambition that they would require from entrepreneurs to turn them into...

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Well that’s that. Gowalla shuts down.

March 10, 2012
Well that’s that. Gowalla shuts down.

Three months after the acquisition of Gowalla by Facebook, the company has officially closed it doors. The screenshot below can be found on the location startup turned travel guide‘s homepage. The termination is a timely one. The company was headquartered in Texas, home to SXSW, which is being held this week. The event is synonymous with the launch...

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Lost Your Smartphone? There’s A ~90% Chance Some Bastard Will Access Your Data

March 10, 2012
Lost Your Smartphone? There’s A ~90% Chance Some Bastard Will Access Your Data

Steve Kovach, Business Insider A privacy jackpot! See Also APPLE’S TV DREAM REVEALED: Embarrass Hardware Makers, Stiff Content Providers, Destroy Cable Companies In This Oil Boomtown, Workers With No Experience Are Making $120,000 A Year You’ve Never Seen Anything Like This North Dakota Oil Boomtown Losing a smartphone won’t just cost you the price...

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Weekly Wrap-up: The New iPad Launches, Netflix Didn’t Know They Advertised on Limbaugh, Google Starts Selling Airfare and More

March 10, 2012
Weekly Wrap-up: The New iPad Launches, Netflix Didn’t Know They Advertised on Limbaugh, Google Starts Selling Airfare and More

Why the New iPad is So Huge for Apple HOT TOPIC Most will agree that the new iPad, launched this week, isn’t a huge step forward. That being the case, Dan Frommer still believes it will be of enormous significance for Apple this year. 2012 may well be the year of the iPad. From...

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Live Drawing SXSW: Q&A With Joss Whedon

March 10, 2012

As SXSW this afternoon, geek demi-god Joss Whedon took the stage for a QA, first with an Entertainment Weekly writer and then with an adoring audience. The conversation jumped from his films, including the upcoming The Avengers, to his creative process, to Firefly (“I keep thinking they’re gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh,...

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Seen at SXSW: Mobile phone batteries suck

March 10, 2012
Seen at SXSW: Mobile phone batteries suck

Smartphones have utterly captured SXSW, and while there are certainly tablets and laptops to be seen, the outlets are ruled by smartphones. Glide along the walls and eventually you’ll trip over a charging smartphone. I’ve seen a few smart folks using USB or plug-in extended batteries or swapping out batteries, but it’s clear that...

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The Economics Of Emotion

March 10, 2012
The Economics Of Emotion

Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Alan Zorfas, the co-founder and CMO of Motista, a VC-backed consumer intelligence service. Prior to co-founding Motista, Alan spent 25 years in senior roles at advertising agencies like Interpublic Group, DBB, and Earle Palmer Brown. The most recent commercial for the BMW i3 and i8 concept...

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A Foxconn Worker Shares Why He Hates Making iPhones

March 10, 2012
A Foxconn Worker Shares Why He Hates Making iPhones

ABC News (screenshot of a report) ChinaHush Interview with a factory worker for the new iPad: much easier than making iPhone 4S Proposal of issuing large denomination RMB 20-year-old porter pleads for death penalty in smile after murdering two Man buys a fake IPhone, stabs seller’s associate to death in rage Farmer woman carrying...

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