I’m not gonna comment any further than I previously did, but I can only thanks Marco and Glenn for their work. They are both outstanding people.
The Magazine felt so great that you were only left with the words and some heartwarming stories.
Yep, this was definitely a success.
The experiment was a success, but it didn’t turn into a long-term business.
Using a ball radius of 0.38 meters, this gives a droid land speed of 6.118 m/s (13.7 mph). So, about the speed of a human powered bike (but not a professional cyclist).
An ode to passwords :
But there is more to passwords than their annoyance. In our authorship of them, in the fact that we construct them so that we (and only we) will remember them, they take on secret lives. Many of our passwords are suffused with pathos, mischief, sometimes even poetry. Often they have rich back stories. A motivational mantra, a swipe at the boss, a hidden shrine to a lost love, an inside joke with ourselves, a defining emotional scar — these keepsake passwords, as I came to call them, are like tchotchkes of our inner lives. They derive from anything: Scripture, horoscopes, nicknames, lyrics, book passages. Like a tattoo on a private part of the body, they tend to be intimate, compact and expressive.
Seems like Blackberry definitely established its product line based on the motto : Down with the new.
Note : the official website for the Classic points my iPhone to this weird page, without any photo of the device, while being on pre-order.
Note bis : You’ll have to wait till December 17 to put your hands on that antique and iconic piece of kit.
Weird all the way.
Daniel Ek, Founder and CEO of Spotify, on Taylor Swift, revenues and the myths about the streaming industry.
He properly nailed it.
It’s not about Spotify and others not paying artists fairly, it’s about fans not willing to pay and play it the old way.
$2 billion, not a bad number.
In the long run how much is worth your favorite CD or your one-time iTunes purchase to the artist compared to decades of playbacks on that same album ?
I betcha my Led Zeppelin IV would be platinum-plated if Spotify existed at that time.
Why link free and paid? Because the hardest thing about selling a music subscription is that most of our competition comes from the tons of free music available just about everywhere. Today, people listen to music in a wide variety of ways, but by far the three most popular ways are radio, YouTube, and piracy – all free. Here’s the overwhelming, undeniable, inescapable bottom line: the vast majority of music listening is unpaid. If we want to drive people to pay for music, we have to compete with free to get their attention in the first place.
Abnormal Capitalist 