Check Point “In the Android world, when you download an application, you as a user have the power to decide whether this application has access to certain resources,” Teller reminds us. “It gives the user the power to decide yes or no. Users who are not educated will just click ‘Yes.’ People tend to...
It has been an interesting day to say the least. The news of Yahoo suing Facebook for infringing its patents has drawn sharp reactions from some of the more measured voices in our industry. Here is a small sampling of reactions: Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures: ”The patents that Yahoo! is suing Facebook over are a...
Yahoo reared its patent troll head this week, and it’s not just Facebook that has reason to be worried — at least, judging by the extremely broad features that it’s being targeted for. Yahoo could easily sue Twitter, Pinterest, Google and many other popular web services whenever it thinks it would be most lucrative...
This year already we’ve seen Kickstarter really show its potential as a fundraising platform. A plethora of projects have raise their target funding (and more) in ridiculously short periods of time, demonstrating in the process that the crowdsourced-funding model is more than effective, to say the least. A record of more than $3 million...
In 1768, the Enlightenment was in full swing, and the printing press was being employed liberally as a method of disseminating knowledge among the (then still relatively few) literate and learned. Few general-purpose reference works existed (the earliest came only a few years before), however, with much essential knowledge split between many smaller, more...
Last year, SXSW was all about group messaging, with GroupMe leading the pack. This year, it was all about location-based social interactions, with Highlight the belle of the ball. Sure, some of the people in Austin seemed to understand exactly why they would want to use such apps, which are variously called Social-Local-Mobile (say...
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So many things about printed encyclopedias seem insane now. The space that dozens of volumes takes up. How much an entire set weighs (well over 100 pounds). The fact that many middle class families used to have to pay for them in regular installments. How slowly they are updated with new information. Today, we...
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Tech bloggers declared Digg dead nearly one year ago today. Regardless of if it really is over, however, there’s still data to be had. And the Internet, like a scavenger bird searching for last remains, will continue to pick at Digg. So about Digg: If you didn’t already know, it supposedly relies on crowd-sourcing...