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YouTube Debuts Movie Section

Tech Crunch journalist Robin Wauters reports that YouTube has launched a fresh Movies category on its website, gathering about 400 full-length films for on-demand viewing, all free of charge. The renewed section comes courtesy of deals the Google company struck // more

Lukas Kubina· 27/08/10 · 05:26 PM· 0 comments

Max Levchin joins Google

Max Levchin, who was the chief executive of Slide and a PayPal co-founder, has landed a new title at Google as a vice president of engineering. It's the latest leadership adjustment since the search giant bought the social developer for // more

Lukas Kubina· 26/08/10 · 09:39 PM· 0 comments

Akamai Bets on High Definition

Akamai is the leader in helping websites stream content. And the business is booming. ComScore estimates that people watched 35.7 billion online videos in June 2010 in the U.S., up from 19.5 billion a year earlier. Akamai and its competitors // more

Lukas Kubina· 25/08/10 · 07:22 PM· 0 comments

Christoph Schlingensief passed away

As beautiful as with him it impossibly can be in heaven. He was called an enfant terrible and an agitator but his provocation was only a marginal phenomenon. He was a free, extremely empathic and congenial man, who used art // more

Lukas Kubina· 23/08/10 · 06:37 PM· 0 comments

Caterina Fake personalizes the Internet (again)

Caterina Fake is back. The Co-founder of Flickr, the landmark photography site that helped launch the era of user-generated content and popularized group dynamics that influenced services like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare is on a new mission. "One of the // more

Lukas Kubina· 19/08/10 · 09:42 PM· 0 comments

The Upside of Irrationality

In his new book, The Upside of Irrationality, Dan Ariely explores less-than-rational ways in which we actually make decisions. The behavioral economist emphasizes that when it comes to choosing, "irrational" doesn't have to be a dirty word. If we can // more

Lukas Kubina· 18/08/10 · 07:06 PM· 0 comments

Wikifying the Physical World

Tech Innovator Blaise Agüera y Arcas is in charge of developing features that will help Microsoft's Bing compete against Google in the mobile realm, where Bing has just 4.2 million users in the U.S. to Google's 33.1 million (comScore). The // more

Lukas Kubina· 17/08/10 · 07:50 PM· 0 comments

Owen Van Natta joins Zynga

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports that Zynga has hired former Facebook Chief Revenue Officer and MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta. He will join the team as EVP Business. Owen was most recently in the news in February, when he stepped down // more

Lukas Kubina· 14/08/10 · 07:01 PM· 0 comments

Net Irrationality?

Tech journalist Om Malik has raised the question if Net Neutrality is under attack. Now, mastermind and DLD friend David Gelernter has published a related piece in the New York Times. He argues that neutrality is a policy - and // more

Lukas Kubina· 13/08/10 · 07:23 PM· 0 comments

Crowdmap - Easy Ushahidi in the Cloud

Ushahidi is now simplified for less tech-savvy activists. The open-source technology which allows users to create maps from data drawn from messages from cellphones, news reports and the Web, is now available through a Web-based application called Crowdmap. Ushahidi was // more

Lukas Kubina· 12/08/10 · 04:29 PM· 0 comments

Another Piece to Google's Social Puzzle

Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch reports that multiple sources informed him that Google buys Jambool and their Social Gold payment product. Social Gold gives app developers the ability to build payments directly into their games and other applications. It // more

Lukas Kubina· 11/08/10 · 05:20 PM· 0 comments

The India Symposium

A team of India affiliated Swiss and German youth is currently in the process of preparing the 6th India Symposium, the India Symposium 2010, which is scheduled to be held on Friday, August 27th 2010 in Zurich. The India Symposium // more

Lukas Kubina· 09/08/10 · 06:27 PM· 0 comments

Net neutralitiy under attack?

News emerged that Google has reached an agreement with Verizon over Internet traffic management. The two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing a deal that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more // more

Lukas Kubina· 06/08/10 · 03:45 PM· 0 comments

Google enforces Social Gaming

Google has agreed to buy Slide for $182 million. TechCrunch reports that this is not the last move in Google's serious social gaming and apps strategy to counter Facebook. Google recently invested in Zynga to form the cornerstone of Google // more

Lukas Kubina· 06/08/10 · 02:55 PM· 0 comments

Cognitive Surplus Reviewed

In his book review on Clay Shirky's new work "Cognitive Surplus", Paul M. Barrett finds that Internet missionaries can be terribly annoying. He reckons that part of the reason is that they are so correct. Broken old media businesses will // more

Lukas Kubina· 05/08/10 · 12:22 PM· 0 comments

Managing Serendipity

The book "The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things In Motion", celebrates unconventional networkers such as Yossi Vardi, the 68-year-old "grandfather" of Israeli venture capital. The DLD Co-chair attends or hosts some 40 pow-wows // more

Lukas Kubina· 04/08/10 · 05:11 PM· 0 comments

2010 - "Year of location"

Unofficially, 2010 has been labelled by many within the technology world as the „year of location". In addition to offering the social connectivity of Twitter and Facebook, services like Dennis Crowley's Foursquare also use your smartphone's global positioning system (GPS) // more

Lukas Kubina· 03/08/10 · 03:24 PM· 0 comments

Facebook - social networks and statehood

Under the title "The future is another country", an article in The Economist examines the social network and its nation-state like features. In some ways, it might seem absurd to call Facebook a state and Mark Zuckerberg its governor. It // more

Lukas Kubina· 02/08/10 · 05:12 PM· 0 comments

Cyberwar - The spy who spammed me

"Cyberwar - The threat from the internet" - an article in The Economist sheds light on the growing risk of connectivity over an insecure internet and how it multiplies the avenues for e-attack. After land, sea, air and space, warfare // more

Lukas Kubina· 30/07/10 · 06:01 PM· 0 comments

Study: Women on the Web

DLDwomen and comScore today released a global report on women's online usage titled, Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet, which provides an in-depth analysis of the female Internet user, highlighting key trends by Internet activity, worldwide // more

Artur Schmidt· 29/07/10 · 02:00 PM· 0 comments

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