It is a popular belief that thanks to the Internet, the world is getting smaller and smaller. But is it really? Even though the web is world wide, language and cultural borders still matter a lot. A good example is the usage of social networking sites that varies greatly from region to region, as is [...]
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The web and its borders
03Apr08
(No Ratings Yet)As TechCrunch writes, Apple has recently filed a patent application for a feature that would allow iPhone users to remotely place orders via their phones in stores and get notified when the order is ready. Frankly, I’m not quite sure what exactly it is that Apple wants to have patented (and Mike Masnick at Techdirt [...]
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03Jan08Situation: In the last years, there has been a lot of buzz around Prediction Markets. These virtual markets work exactly like stock markets, only that instead of real stocks, the probability of future events is traded. Prediction Markets are already a very common tool to forecast the outcome of elections (one of the first and [...]
(No Ratings Yet)Feeds in Everything
26Dec07Over at Read/Write Web, Marshall Kirkpatrick argues that 2007 was a big year for RSS (Real Simple Syndication). I completely agree - and I even think that RSS feeds will become a lot more important in the future.
Every blog already has a feed, and so does almost every news site. And there’s more: For example, [...]
(No Ratings Yet)While other newspapers are boring their readers with looking back on what has happened in 2007, the New York Times Magazine takes a different approach: Their current issue, for the seventh time in a row, looks back at the “Year of Ideas”. Its editors collected 70 very different ideas, innovations, pieces of research, trends and [...]
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