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Arcade Fire Meets HTML 5

What would a music experience designed specifically for the modern web look like? This is a question the DLD friend Aaron Koblin and the Google Creative Lab had been playing around with for the last months. Browsers and web technologies // more

Lukas Kubina· 02/09/10 · 05:34 PM· 0 comments

DLD Global Goes Beijing

DLD takes flight to the asian continent and is staging a DLD Global Reception at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing on Sunday, 12 September 2010; 4.00 - 7.00 pm. DLD Global Beijing aims to bridge the China-based // more

Lukas Kubina· 01/09/10 · 11:00 AM· 1 comment

comScore acquires Nedstat

ComScore announced the acquisition of Nedstat, an Amsterdam-based provider of web analytics and video measurement solutions for approx. $36.7 million. Nedstat has a proven track record of helping companies improve the effectiveness and profitability of online marketing programs. ComScore says // more

Lukas Kubina· 01/09/10 · 10:02 AM· 0 comments

DEMO and DLD Invite you to DEMOFall 2010

Our close DLD Friend Matt Marshall posted on VentureBeat yesterday a great post entitled "The three people you need to hear from at DEMO, September 13-15". DEMOFall 2010 is taking place in Silicon Valley. This history-making event is anticipated to // more

Artur Schmidt· 31/08/10 · 03:35 PM· 0 comments

The next step of the Strategy 2015

The aquisition of the Berlin based start-up Nugg.ad by Deutsche Post highlights the corporate strategy of the logistics company: Deutsche Post is turning into an IT company. CEO Frank Appel continues consistently with his Strategy 2015 which focuses on the // more

Lukas Kubina· 31/08/10 · 03:00 PM· 0 comments

Facebook Places

With Facebook Places you can now leave your exact position instead of your emotional status on the social network. Experts agree that the link between social networks and location-based services is definetely the next big thing. Inofficially, 2010 is already // more

Lukas Kubina· 30/08/10 · 12:00 PM· 0 comments

People meet in Architecture

The architecture Biennale in Venice calls on to defend the public space. The 12th version was inaugurated Sunday, 29th of August. The curator, Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima raises the question how people can meet in architecture. Together with her partner // more

Lukas Kubina· 30/08/10 · 10:36 AM· 0 comments

Prophet of the Economy

An article in the Handelsblatt lists Nassim N. Taleb as one of the most notable prophets of future economic development. When the DLD friend published his book "The Black Swan" about the turbulences in the international financial markets in 2007, // more

Lukas Kubina· 27/08/10 · 07:00 PM· 0 comments

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

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