Tech News – September 16th 2012 to September 17th 2012
Tech news – September 16th 2012 to September 17th 2012:
- Why The Hell Did I Save This? Annotary Adds Context To Your Bookmarks By Letting You Highlight Them | TechCrunch –
Bookmarking things is one of those quiet, thoughtless interactions with content that probably peppers your days without you even being aware of it. Did you just discover an awesome recipe for tabbouleh? Cmd (or Ctrl) + D that thing. Does some newly-found bit of literary criticism seem tailor-made for your English Lit class? You know what to do.
New York-based startup Annotary takes this momentary interaction and expands on it just a bit — in addition to saving the page you’ve landed on, it allo… show all text - Red Hat’s new patent troll weapon: GPL violation | ITworld –
Red Hat has taken a unique step in defending itself from a patent infringement claim from Twin Peaks Software: a counterclaim that Twin Peaks is in copyright violation on mount, the file management app that is licensed under the GPLv2. - U.S. to File W.T.O. Case Against China Over Cars –
The Obama administration plans to file a trade case at the World Trade Organization in Geneva on Monday accusing China of unfairly subsidizing its exports of autos and auto parts, an administration official said late Sunday.
- When Twitter Fans Steer TV – John Jannarone – Media – AllThingsD –
There’s a new critic in television writing rooms pressuring some producers to tweak scripts: the Twitterati.
Comments posted on Twitter and other social-media websites about television shows have exploded in the past year, to 75.5 million in July from 8.8 million a year earlier, far faster than overall growth in such comments, according to research firm Bluefin Labs. And the comments are beginning to have an impact on the writing of shows.
Read the rest of this post on the original site » - 2 Insider Attacks Kill 6 Coalition Members in Afghanistan –
Afghan security forces killed six service members from the American-led military coalition in a pair of attacks in southern Afghanistan this weekend, raising the number of troops killed in such attacks to 51 this year.
- Shazam now lets you tag live TV on any channel, hits 250 million users | The Verge –
Music-tagging app Shazam today announced that it's expanding its functionality to let you tag any TV show on any channel in order to find out what music is playing, who's acting on screen, and more…. - LIFX Hits Kickstarter to Completely Reimagine the Lightbulb –
Lightbulbs may have been around for more than 125 years, but in that time they haven't changed all that much. Filaments have become more reliable and energy-saving products have started … - Boy Scouts face release of damaging child sex abuse files – Yahoo! News –
From Yahoo! News: REUTERS – The Boy Scouts of America could face a wave of bad publicity as decades of records of confirmed or alleged child molesters within the U.S. organization are expected to be released in coming weeks. On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reported the organization failed to report allegations of sex abuse of scouts by adult leaders and volunteers to police in hundreds of cases from 1970 to 1991. In some cases, the Boy Scouts helped the accused "cover their tracks," the paper … - First Apple iPhone 5 orders now shipping from China –
Customers who were among the first to preorder the iPhone 5 from Apple have begun seeing updates that their orders are shipping from China.
- The Future Of Tech Journalism In A Post-Technology World – SVW –
Tech journalists swarmed into Yerba Buena in San Francisco earlier this week to cover the much anticipated Apple iPhone 5 launch. Some news organizations sent multiple reporters, Fortune sent five.
That's quite an over kill to cover the launch of a product that turned into an iYawn. The iPhone 5.0 is about 20% thinner and lighter than the previous model, with a slightly larger display.
This small improvement in a mass produced consumer product resulted in a flood of news coverage. Yet just yards show all text - Mmmmm that sounds good… I’ll have that. –
- Social Media Strategies Summit San Francisco | Social Media Club –
Global Strategic Management Institute (GSMI) is excited to announce Social Media Strategies Conference – San Francisco. Whether your organization is just starting out or in the forefront of social media, Social Media Strategies Conference will take your social strategy to the next level.
- Europeana releases 20 million records into the public domain using CC0 – Creative Commons –
Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. This week marks a momentous occasion, as Europeana — Europe'e digital library — has released 20 million records into the public domain using the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. This release is the largest one-time dedication of cultural data to the public domain using CC0. The Europeana dataset consists of descriptive information from a huge trove of digitized….
- Bill Gates Unveils Microsoft Excel For Windows In 1987 (Video) –
If you're into the history of computing, watch this History Uncut video showing a young Bill Gates taking questions from the press about Microsoft Excel for Windows, back in 1987. Glasses … - 5 Fascinating Facts We Learned From Reddit This Week –
1. George Washington Was Not a Fan of Political Parties
In fact, he believed they would destroy democracy. "However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." – Farewe… show all text - Chicago Tribune: Chicago breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, weather and traffic – chicagotribune.com –
Chicago Tribune: Your source for Chicago breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, weather and traffic
- Hardware Alley At Disrupt — From Tele-Presence Robots To Golf Swing Sensors | TechCrunch –
The great thing about Hardware Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt is – apart from the fact that it seems to grow bigger at every event – is the sheer variety of companies exhibiting. There’s pretty much anything you can imagine, and only two feet can separate a robotics company from a mobile gadget. But it’s the opportunity investors look for I guess. Here’s a list of the companies featured in this break-neck video.
Double Robotics
Nomiku
Shisa Labs
sifteo
skyera
Sqord
Thermo Essence Technologies
Thim… show all text - Inside the campaign: How Mitt Romney stumbled – Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei – POLITICO.com –
Romney's convention stumbles have provoked weeks of public griping and internal sniping about him and his mercurial campaign muse, Stuart Stevens. - Facebook’s embedded option – Chris Dixon –
The best way to think of Facebook’s stock is as the sum of two businesses: the existing display ad businesses, and a probability-weighted option on a new line of business. This is how Wall Street views it. For example, here is a section of a recent Goldman Sachs analyst report on Facebook:
Optionality not in the model: further potential upside
While not in our model, as [Facebook] has not publicly expressed pursuit of these areas, we believe there are three obvious opportunities that the company show all text - BBC News – Angelina Jolie visits Syrian refugees in Iraq –
UN special envoy and actress Angelina Jolie has visited Syrian refugees in the Domiz camp in the northern Iraqi Kurdish province of Duhouk. - iPhone 5: Customers in the Big Apple camp out 8 days early – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Tech –
By Sunday there were 7 in the queue — each of them for commercial purposes
FORTUNE — In the popular imagination — and in Samsung TV ads — the people willing to wait in line for days to buy the newest Apple (AAPL) gewgaw are hopeless fanboys and fangirls who need to get a life.
That attitude is so 2007.
Today, occupying a space near enough to the front of an iPhone queue MORE - Must Great Leaders Be Gregarious? –
The ability to lead depends on vision, not beer drinking, schmoozing or other social skills. - EU Commission VP Neelie Kroes Explains Why Copyright Is Broken: It Was Made In An Age Of Gatekeepers | Techdirt –
While the EU Commission has been much more copyright maximalist at times (it was the major driver behind ACTA in Europe), some on the Commission have been pushing back on such views for a while. Neelie Kroes, who is VP of the EU Commission and in… - Baby panda photos from the San Diego Zoo are adorable –
The baby panda photos from the San Diego Zoo are going viral, and this photo gallery shows how incredibly cute the giant panda cub is even when he’s only a few months old. - Investors Are Salivating Over Zuckerberg’s Plans For Search. Here’s Why | TechCrunch –
Facebook’s share price has rocketed up from $19.46 to $22.00 since Mark Zuckerberg talked at TechCrunch Disrupt Tuesday, and numerous sources in the investment community tell us it was his declaration that Facebook will tackle search that excited them most. Rather than incremental increases in revenue that better ad units could bring, the prospect of the social network taking on a whole new business offers an upside worth betting on.
But what would Facebook search look like? Not a straight-up, … show all text - There’s a lot going on here. –
- Inside the campaign: How Mitt Romney stumbled – POLITICO.com Print View –
Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney’s top strategist, knew his candidate’s convention speech needed a memorable mix of loft and grace if he was going to bound out of Tampa with an authentic chance to win the presidency. So Stevens, bypassing the speechwriting staff at the campaign’s Boston headquarters, assigned the sensitive task of drafting…
- A Love Story In 22 Pictures –
A picture is worth 1000 words. Keep tissues handy.View Entire List ›
- Visua Musio: This App Lets Kids Make Songs With Shapes –
Visua Musio is a new iPad app by WOW.inc which lets you make "visual music animations" by adding shapes to an empty canvas. - Twitter releases Occupy protester’s tweets to NY judge: Why it caved on users’ privacy. –
Twitter surprised and impressed civil liberties groups this summer by taking a stand on behalf of an Occupy Wall Street protester’s privacy. Ordered by the judge in a New York criminal case to dredge up and hand over deleted tweets from activist Malcolm Harris (@destructuremal), Twitter fought back and appealed,… - Crude oil ought to be $150 per barrel: Iran| Reuters –
DUBAI (Reuters) – Crude oil should be at least $150 per barrel, Iran's oil minister was quoted as saying on Sunday, and the sanctions-hit country's OPEC governor said current oil prices were not high enough
- Disruptions: Let Silicon Valley Eat … Ramen Noodles? – NYTimes.com –
Silicon Valley would like the world to think it doesn't care about money. But these start-ups aren't nonprofit organizations. - Facebook Users Judge Attractiveness Based on Others’ Comments [STUDY] –
What's the first thing you look at when you make a new Facebook friend?
Most likely, it's the comments on that person's profile picture, according to a new study from the University of Missouri. The comments your Facebook friends leave on your profile picture strongly affect your level of perceived physical, social and professional attractiveness.
This shouldn't come as much of a surprise, as profile pictures are the first place your eye is drawn to on a Facebook profile.
Seoyeon Hong, a doctor… show all text - Just 100 cod left in North Sea – Telegraph –
A survey of catches at European portsfinds fishermen did not catch a single cod over the age of 13 last year, raising concerns for future of the species. - The power of ignoring mainstream news –
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” – Thomas Jefferson
Around 2 years ago I stopped reading and watching mainstream news. I don’t read a single newspaper, offline or online, and I don’t watch any TV at all. I recently mentioned this on Twitter and Facebook and it created a lot of discussion, so I wanted to expand on my thoughts and experiences.
When I first started ignoring news, I felt that I was simply making an excuse, that if I show all text - A Love Story In 22 Pictures –
A picture is worth 1000 words. Keep tissues handy.
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- iPhone 5 May Have Caused August Sales Miss – Business Insider –
You've read the reports about the iPhone 5 contributing up to 0.5% in GDP growth.
But this may be the flipside…
On Friday, August retail sales were disappointingly weak, with "control" sales (excluding gas, auto, etc.) up just 0.1% vs. expectations of 0.4%.
But even within "control" most of the numbers weren't that bad.
Here's SocGen:
Excluding reported increases in auto, building materials and gasoline purchases, retail “control” – the portion of the Census Bureau’s report that is used by the show all text - The Foreign Relations Fumbler –
If Mitt Romney keeps misfiring on foreign policy, he’s going to blow up his presidential credentials. - Britain risks a lost decade unless it changes course – FT.com –
It is the mark of science and perhaps rational thought to operate with a falsifiable understanding of how the world works. So it is fair to ask economists a fundamental question: what could happen that would cause you to revise your views of how the - By 2015 hard commodity prices will have collapsed –
For the past two years, as regular readers know, I have been bearish on hard commodities. Prices may have dropped substantially from their peaks during this time, but I don’t think the bear market is over. I think we still have a very long way to go. There are four reasons why I expect prices to [...]
- What Is the Business of Health Care? – David A. Asch and Kevin G. Volpp – Harvard Business Review –
Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more. - China Protests Against Japan Intensify – WSJ.com –
Angry crowds across China ransacked Japanese businesses, smashed Japanese cars and pelted Tokyo's embassy in Beijing with eggs and plastic bottles in weekend protests over disputed islands in the East China Sea. - The rise of LinkedIn’s news feed (And how Twitter made a big dumb mistake) | VentureBeat –
Last week I was reading one of my industry news sources and an article caught my attention. I wanted to let my friends know about the piece so, as usual, I went to tweet about it. And that’s when I noticed this:There were more people posting the article to LinkedIn than there were people tweeting about it.
And that’s when the sledgehammer hit me. Twitter has a huge new competitor with the potential to swamp them, particularly in one critical area. And, it is all of their own making.
Back in … show all text - On elephants, obsessions and wicked problems: A new phenomenology of news « news thing –
Goodbye to the beat
The first “beat reporters” were probably the men sent by newspapers to hang around the criminal courts in the early 19th century. Today almost every news outlet is organized around fixed beats: “financial markets”, “real estate”, “technology”, and so on. These are now so ingrained that we see them as an actual description of reality—the things the world is made of.
Yet the beats aren’t so much an objective taxonomy as a convenient management tool, devised for an old technolo… show all text - Touchdown for digital: Why the NFL’s online strategy makes for a winning game plan | Digital Trends –
While the NBA, NHL and MLB fumble with their online strategies, the NFL has mastered the with the help of former MySpace exec Jeff Berman. - How Disney built a big data platform on a startup budget — Data | GigaOM –
Disney is a massive company, but when it comes to its big data platform, the entertainment conglomerate looks a lot like a startup. Kind of, that is. By the sheer power of its will (and ingenuity), a small team has been able to craft a large custom platform out of Hadoop, NoSQL databases and other open-source technologies. But for better or for worse, doing big data at such a large company means playing by a different set of rules.
When it came to putting a big data platform in place, Arun Jaco… show all text - Viral Video Recap: Funniest Memes of the Week –
Let's face it: There are a lot of videos on YouTube — far too many for you to ever see them all. That's why we here at Mashable have created the viral video recap, to ensure that you can keep up to speed with the best of the past week.
What's in store for you this week? Not surprisingly, cats. One purring soul music and another relaxedly sitting.
We've also got South Korean sensation Psy teaching Brittany Spears to dance on Ellen ("the mindset of this dance is dress classy and dance cheesy," P… show all text - Poll: Elizabeth Warren opens 6-point edge on Scott Brown in Massachusetts Senate race | masslive.com –
According to the survey of Massachusetts voters conducted Sept. 6-13, Warren is leading Brown, 50 to 44 percent, among likely voters in the Bay State. - The Verbal Elegance Of Apple And Nintendo | TechCrunch –
Editor’s Note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of the leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development. You can follow him on Twitter here.
Companies often shout in the games industry. They yell with videos, music, press events with booth babes and the monster that is E3. They hustle and go balls-to-the-wall for attention. They make big noise in order to get you to notice what they’re up to and wri… show all text - TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Day 3 Video Highlights (TCTV) | TechCrunch –
In the last of our three part series of video highlights from Disrupt SF, we focus on Wednesday when YourMechanic won the Startup Battlefield competition.
Earlier in the day, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick explained how he goes up against regulators trying to block his disruptive business model. Yammer CEO David Sacks was asked whether his company was ever in serious acquisition talks with Salesforce or Twitter before it was sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion. And Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures expl… show all text - Marissa Mayer Just Gave Every Yahoo Employee An iPhone 5 – Business Insider –
New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just sent an email to all of Yahoo's full time and part time employees in the US, promising them a new Apple, Samsung, Nokia, or HTC smartphone.
"People are happy," says a source at the company.
A couple weeks ago, we reported that new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was considering giving every Yahoo employee a new iPhone or Android smartphone.
Mayer has now put that plan into motion through a program Yahoo is calling "Yahoo! Smart Phones, Smart Fun!"
We learned about t… show all text - The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Punishing Blasphemous Speech That Triggers Murderous Reactions Would Likely Lead to More Deaths –
(Eugene Volokh)
In recent days, I’ve heard various people calling for punishing the maker of Innocence of Muslims, and more broadly for suppressing such speech. During the Terry Jones planned Koran-burning controversy, I heard similar calls. Such expression leads to the deaths of people, including Americans. It worsens our relations with important foreign countries. It’s intended to stir up trouble. And it’s hardly high art, or thoughtful political arguments. It’s not like it’s Satanic Verses, … show all text - Are You Building Facebook’s Empire, Or Your Own? – Tara Hunt – Harvard Business Review –
Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.
- Best Food Tracking App? Lose It! – LockerGnome –
- Mike Bloomberg on State of the Economy Four Years After Onset of the Financial Crisis –
Four years ago, a financial crisis undermined our economy. Today a political crisis is standing in the way of a full recovery. - Van Gogh by Seth Greenwald #art #igersftl (Taken… –
Van Gogh by Seth Greenwald #art #igersftl (Taken with Instagram) - A First: Organs Tailor-Made With Body’s Own Cells –
Tissue engineers have succeeded in making artificial organs that use a patient’s cells to become a living part of the body. Some hope to eventually prod the body to regenerate organs itself. - Hardware is dead | VentureBeat –
I go to China every four or five months for work. I have to visit all the corporate headquarters in Beijing and Shanghai, but the highlight of every trip is the day I spend at Hua Qiang Road North in Shenzhen. Pretty much every piece of electronics we use today is sourced and manufactured within 100 miles of Shenzhen, and Hua Qiang is the city’s electronics shopping district.
On my last trip, in July, I met a ‘procurement’ consultant, and he told me which of the 50 mega malls in the area to vis… show all text - Ballmer discusses Surface pricing and Microsoft as a devices-and-services company | The Verge –
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has discussed Windows 8 a number of times this year, once describing it as "the rebirth of Microsoft Windows," but the outspoken chief of Microsoft has switched gears to… - Your Big Brains Can Raise Awareness of Your Organization, Part 1 of 2. –
One of the tips you always see or hear or read about when it comes to becoming more active in social media is ‘become an industry resource/thought leader/trusted by showing expertise’. There are a couple of ways to do this as an organization or as an individual. You can write blogs, publish white papers, curate great content, create creative infographics or make YouTube movies – all of these are excellent and relatively easy ways to go about establishing yourself or your organization (or both,… show all text - A new member of the family. –
- Why journalists love Reddit for its brains, not just its beauty — Tech News and Analysis –
It’s fair to say that Reddit is having a moment right now. In the wake of President Obama’s decision to make the site part of the campaign trail by doing an “Ask Me Anything” Q&A last month, more and more people are seeing the site for the first time. Traffic is up, and mainstream media outlets are even writing glowing tributes to the site that was once the preserve of the internet’s crankiest community.
But while Reddit’s influence in politics may be growing, and its role in shaping internet c… show all text - Apps to slash your cell phone bill | Fox News –
You don't have to cut back on your phone's services for fear of a giant monthly bill, though. There are plenty of apps that can help you save on the features you love. - XOXO JOMO! Live-blogging the conference – Anil Dash –
So, we're going old school: I'm going to live-blog the XOXO conference! But not like "Hey I'm a writer for The Verge obsessing over an Apple keynote!" or "I'm just going to tweet the two funniest lines from this talk!" but rather, like we used to do in the olden days: We're gonna try to share what we're learning from each of the speakers at this event.
But in the spirit of JOMO, the Joy of Missing Out, I am hoping we can do some unique stuff online that make it as satisfying to be paying attent… show all text - Emily made me unicorn pancakes. –
- Latest World & National News & Headlines – USATODAY.com –
The Nation's Newspaper provides you with up-to-date coverage of US and international news, weather, entertainment, finance, and more.
- Marissa Mayer Just Gave Every Yahoo Employee An iPhone 5 – Business Insider –
New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just sent an email to all of Yahoo's full time and part time employees in the US, promising them a new Apple, Samsung, Nokia, or HTC smartphone.
"People are happy," says a source at the company.
A couple weeks ago, we reported that new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was considering giving every Yahoo employee a new iPhone or Android smartphone.
Mayer has now put that plan into motion through a program Yahoo is calling "Yahoo! Smart Phones, Smart Fun!"
We learned about t… show all text - BBC News – Close-Up: A round on one of the world’s most dangerous golf courses –
Quentin Sommerville plays a round at Kabul Golf Club, arguably the most challenging course in the world. - Connect.me is relaunching – get access to the beta launch and learn the latest | Michael Q Todd –
- Armada of British naval power massing in the Gulf as Israel prepares an Iran strike – Telegraph –
An armada of US and British naval power is massing in the Persian Gulf in the belief that Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike against Iran's covert nuclear weapons programme. - Deaths in northwest Pakistan bomb attack – Central & South Asia – Al Jazeera English –
At least 14 members of peace jirga killed while travelling in bus in Lower Dir, near Afghanistan border, police say. - Foreign troops killed in southern Afghanistan – Central & South Asia – Al Jazeera English –
Latest "insider" attack leaves four dead in Zabul, while several civilians are killed in NATO strike in Laghman. - Connect.Me –
- Newspaper Advertising Collapse – Business Insider –
Over the past decade, lots of big newspaper companies have gone bust.
But when you take a look at what's happened to newspaper advertising over that period, it's a wonder they all haven't.
Below, via Mark J. Perry and Bill Gross, is a chart we've run before. It shows inflation-adjusted newspaper advertising revenue over the past 60 years.
Thanks to the precipitous decline in the last ~7 years, the industry is now back to where we it was in 1950. And it's only slightly better off when you factor… show all text - The Washington Post: Login – The Washington Post –
- Don’t Let It Go Unheard 09/15 by amypeikoff | Blog Talk Radio –
Weekly show discussing news, politics and culture from the perspective of Ayn Rands philosophy, Objectivism. Hosted by Amy Peikoff. This show is an hour-long interview with Leonard Peikoff, foremost authority on Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, and author of the recently released book, THE DIM HYPOTHESIS: WHY THE LIGHTS OF THE WEST ARE GOING OUT. - Infothought: Aaron Swartz "JSTOR" case indictment revised/expanded –
[A little original, if boring, reporting below]
I'm continuing to follow the Aaron Swartz case, which is grinding away (disclosure: I know him socially, and have admired his work). The latest development, which seems to have not been reported anywhere but here (scoop!
breaking story! ), is that the prosecution has issued a "Superseding Indictment". That is, the charges against Swartz have been revised and expanded from the original form.
And as I've said before – they don't like him. They show all text - Demanding A Student’s Facebook Password A Violation Of First Amendment Rights, Judge Says | Techdirt –
For some strange reason, a large number of schools adhere to the notion that their students are not actually citizens of the United States and therefore, not granted the same rights as the "grownups." The rationale for the limitation of…
- Several Arrests at Occupy Wall Street March –
The police arrested several of the roughly 250 people who marched toward Zuccotti Park in the first of three days of events for the one-year anniversary of the movement. - Square Peg…. –
Outdoor #CigarTherapy in session at @OutmansCigarBar. - Vote for the Best Nonprofit Tagline – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - –
Over 1400 taglines were submitted to the Nonprofit Tagline Awards. The final voting is down to just 63 tagline finalists. Creating good taglines for your nonprofit’s brand is challenging. There are so many different stakeholders that you need to think about both externally and internally when crafting the messaging. Here are some of the taglines that captured my attention right off the bat.
Fundraising Category
Feed Your Inner Starving Artist — Raffle for a glass making class in the museum g… show all text - Twitter / thepegisin: for @RedTheTrucker… –
Instantly connect to what's most important to you. Follow your friends, experts, favorite celebrities, and breaking news.
- iPhone’s Biggest Flaw: Vertically-Oriented HD Video Recording – LockerGnome –
- Ted Leitner & Tony Gwynn Share their Fav Jerry Coleman stories –
- How One Social Superfan Made The xx Album Release Go Viral | The Realtime Report –
To promote the release of their second album, English indie pop band The xx used social media – including one social superfan and a global visualization… - Delta Sends C&Ds To Startups Tracking Airline Rewards; MileWise, AwardWallet & Others Affected | TechCrunch –
Delta is joining American Airlines and Southwest Airlines as the third major brand to deny travel startups access to users’ frequent flyer accounts for the purpose of tracking airlines’ miles and rewards. Startups affected include TripIt (reportedly*), MileWise, and AwardWallet (confirmed) and others. Here’s the situation in a nutshell: the airlines think your rewards data is theirs. Users think they own their own data. Imagine that!
What’s worse is that airlines are actually pissing off some of show all text - SM Thought Leader Part 2: Rackspace’s Rob La Gesse – Forbes –
In Part 1 of my Thought Leadership profile on Rackspace's Rob La Gesse, I described how the enterprise brand folded into the personal brands of Robert Scoble and Rocky Barbanica. Because the two individuals were close to startups, Rackspace drew closer. Because the two were trusted by entrepreneurs, Rackspace became a [...]
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