- Sourcing for Agile | Emergn
Terrific paper from Emergn on outsourcing and agile. (agile outsourcing dopost )
- Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself | Ars Technica
"15 years on, Winamp still lives—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping." (aol history dopost winamp )
- Apple Stores’ Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay – NYTimes.com
"I was earning $11.25 an hour, [...] Part of me was thinking, ‘This is great. I’m an Apple fan, the store is doing really well.’ But when you look at the amount of money the company is making and then you look at your paycheck, it’s kind of tough." (remuneration employment retail apple dopost )
- Hands-Off: Microsoft Surface Tablet Review
"After seeing yet another “hands-on” review of the Microsoft Surface tablet, I thought it would be interesting to shed more light on what exactly the journalists who assembled in Hollywood this week for the Surface launch event actually got to do with the tablets. In short, not a lot. Come along as I explain the hands-off reality of what I saw." (journalism reviews microsoft_surface dopost )
- In bid for patent sanity, judge throws out entire Apple/Motorola case | Ars Technica
"Judge Richard Posner previously canceled a jury trial in Chicago in the case, and then castigated both Apple and Motorola while calling the entire US patent system "chaos." Posner, a US Court of Appeals judge who is sitting by designation for this case in US District Court in Illinois, issued a ruling late today [...] that shows he wasn't just joking." (patents motorola apple dopost legal )
- http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gpollice/cs3733-b05/Readings/FAKE-IT.pdf
Classic paper referenced at Gilb 2012 (pdf software_development process design )
- Nike becomes first UK company to have Twitter campaign banned | Media | guardian.co.uk
"Nike has become the first UK company to have a Twitter campaign banned, after the advertising watchdog decided that its use of the personal accounts of footballers Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshere broke rules for not clearly telling the public their tweets were ads." (twitter asa dopost advertising nike )
- NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs, Almost None Paid For – NYTimes.com
Cue much industry anguish: "In the NPR post, a 20-year-old intern named Emily White wrote that despite being “an avid music listener, concertgoer and college radio D.J.,” with an iTunes library of 11,000 songs, she has bought only 15 CDs in her life. “As monumental a role as musicians and albums have played in my life,” she wrote, “I’ve never invested money in them aside from concert tickets and T-shirts.”" (music_industry npr piracy dopost music )
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