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Habits Are The New Viral: Why Startups Must Be Behavior Experts | TechCrunch
Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Nir Eyal, a founder of two startups and an advisor to several Bay Area incubators.
HTML5 Is An Oncoming Train, But Native App Development Is An Oncoming Rocket Ship
HTML5 versus native apps.
Stowe Boyd • Pilcrows And Flows: The Fragmentation Of Media In A Web Of Flow
A pilcrow is a typographic term for the paragraph marker that many publishers use, such as the New York Times. It looks like this: ‘¶’.Deep Packet Inspection Circles Back for a Second Look: Tech News «
Deep packet inspection, a creepy and invasive targeting technology, is looking to make a comeback, this time armed with opt-in consent and incentives for users. The technology, which involves scanning data packets for information on where they come from and what they contain, fell out of favor a few years ago following consumer uproar and congressional hearings, after ISPs tried to use it to target subscribers with ads based on where consumers surfed online.
The Algorithm + the Crowd are Not Enough « Rand's Blog
In the last decade, the online world has been ruled by two, twin forces: The Crowd and The Algorithm. The collective “users” of the Internet (The Crowd) create, click, and rate, while mathematical equations add scalability and findability to these overwhelming quantities of data (The Algorithm). Like the moon over the ocean, the pull of these two forces help create the tides of popularity (and obscurity) on the Internet.
By Lars Erik Holmquist of the Mobile Life Centre, Kista, Sweden The rate of innovation in mobile services is just about to take a quantum leap.
The Age of the Mobile Mash-Up
The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile | TechCrunch
Editor’s note: Legendary investor Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures.
The State Of Web Development Ripped Apart In 25 Tweets By One Ma
There are few people who know the ins and outs of the web as well as Joe Hewitt . For the past decade, he’s had his hands deep in everything from Netscape, to AOL, to Firefox, to Facebook (where he currently works). Hewitt also knows a thing or two about the iPhone.
Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation.
How JavaScript will lead the way to open video | VentureBeat
The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators
I keep hearing people throw around the word “curation” at various conferences, most recently at SXSW. The thing is most of the time when I dig into what they are saying they usually have no clue about what curation really is or how it could be applied to the real-time world.From the moment of its unveiling on September 1st, 2010, Scott Wilson, a self-described watch fetishist and former Global Creative Director for Nike, felt the desire to build a watch band for the 6th generation iPod nano. Not just any watch band, "Everyone is going to make a plastic one," said Scott whose goal was to make a band that he wanted to wear and maybe sell a few hundred to other watch geeks along the way. "Other people, even people in the studio didn't believe in what I was doing, they thought I was wasting my time."