- Google Launches ‘The Google’ For Older Adults | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
"The popular search engine Google announced plans Friday to launch a new site, TheGoogle.com, to appeal to older adults not able to navigate the original website's single text field and two clearly marked buttons." (google humour )
- CHART OF THE DAY: iPad Magazine Sales Tank
"As you can see in this chart, iPad sales of Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Glamour are all down or flat for the last six months. Over that same stretch, Apple has sold millions more iPads." (magazines trends ipad )
- Hello, my name is: 9649e796e8b23900dc9629a18f2d47306430e62f | BGR | Boy Genius Report
Boy Genius says the growing protests about mobile business collecting anonymised personal data is misguided: "If I were overly concerned about strangers not knowing my age, gender, and location, I probably would avoid going out in public — since all three of these things are pretty easy to discern and there are plenty of people outside my home that I do not know." (mobile privacy data marketing )
- A VC: Mobile Economics Will Trend Toward Web Economics
"I've been saying for a while now that I think mobile economics will trend toward web economics as the mobile web goes mainstream. In other words, the business models that work best on the web will ultimately work best in mobile.The corollary to that is that the business models that don't work well on the web will not work well in mobile in the long run." (mobile business_models ipad iphone )
- Paul Allen Refiles Lawsuit, Says He Patented ‘Related Links’ | paidContent
"Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen has refiled his patent lawsuit against 11 big internet companies and e-retailers, and the new complaint details just how broad Allen’s claim to basic internet functionality is. In a 35-page amended complaint [PDF] filed Tuesday, Allen’s lawyers detail how certain functions that are widely used in digital media—acts as simple as suggesting related links, offering various forms of “alerts,” or making suggestions of related products for purchase—stand accused of infringing the four patents Allen has used in this lawsuit. [...] To call the accused features “widely used” web publishing functions would be an understatement. [...] Paul Allen would be essentially a tax collector for the internet." Have I ever said software patents are bonkers…? (patents legal paul_allen )
- If an App Is Your Content Strategy, You Are Doomed: Tech News and Analysis «
"When the iPad first arrived on the scene, many newspaper and magazine publishers seemed to see it as a digital savior that would restore their fortunes and allow them to withstand the whole “information wants to be free” aspect of the Internet. [...] Hopefully some publishers are starting to realize that simply having an iPad app doesn’t qualify as a digital content strategy." Sensible stuff. (ipad media newspapers magazines business_strategy )
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