The world's largest photo service just made its pictures free to use. If you go to the Getty Images website, you'll see millions of images, all watermarked.
There are more than a hundred years of photography here, from FDR on the campaign trail to last Sunday's Oscars, all stamped with the same transparent square placard reminding you that you don't own the rights. If you want Getty to take off the watermark, you'll have to pay for it. "Our content was everywhere already. " Starting now, that's going to change. Getty Images is dropping the watermark for the bulk of its collection, in exchange for an open-embed program that will let users drop in any image they want, as long as the service gets to append a footer at the bottom of the picture with a credit and link to the licensing page. It's a real risk for the company, since it's easy to screenshot the new versions if you want to snag an unlicensed version.
The new embeds strike directly at social sharing Looking at the pictures on Twitter, it's hard to disagree. Embeds have enabled a new kind of link rot. The Empty Seat Option (ESo) A smart way to. Apple and China. Tuesday, 15 October 2013 From a recent story in Want China Times, “Two Percent of China’s Public Consumes One-Third of World’s Luxury Goods”: According to China’s official population clock, there are an estimated 1,359,025,970 people in China as of Sept. 26, with just 2% of that number — some 27,180,519 people — consuming one third of the world’s luxury items.
The 2% are the backbone of the global luxury goods sales and the target of hundreds of international brand names, the Chinese-language Money Week magazine reports. Although the huge majority of China’s population is unable to purchase luxury items, as the country’s economy grows so will its market, the magazine said. When the iPhone 5C came out last month and was not “low cost”, many took it as a sign that Apple was somehow ignoring China. From Apple’s perspective, there’s no such thing as an “emerging market”. There’s nothing unique to Apple about this, except, perhaps, the size of the opportunity. Mlanting : Pop up store in NY. Elke maand... Semco-stijl in Nederland: vertrouwen in de bouw. Zoom Vertrouwen, openheid en liefde in de werkomgeving.
Het klinkt mooi, maar werkt het ook in Nederland? Tegenlicht presenteert de werkwijze van Semler in de bouw, het bedrijf, de zorg en het onderwijs. Het bouwbedrijf Kesselaar en Zn. van René Kesselaar wordt in 2012 door innovatiecentrum Syntens uitgeroepen tot het slimste bedrijf van Nederland. Directeur-eigenaar René Kesselaar voelt niks voor de egocultuur die binnen de bouw heerst en organiseert zijn bedrijf op een andere manier. Ketensamenwerking is een van de kenmerken van zijn bedrijf. “Rugby is een sport van respect. Vertrouwen en samenwerken René Kesselaar vindt dat je de mensen met wie je werkt moet vertrouwen. Ze maken samen een planning, zodat mensen niet op elkaar hoeven te wachten. What “Disrupt” Really Means. Editor’s note: Andy Rachleff is President and CEO of Wealthfront, an SEC-registered online financial advisor.
Prior to Wealthfront, Andy co-founded and was general partner of Benchmark Capital. Follow him on Twitter @arachleff. Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley love to talk about disruption, though few know what it really means. They mistake better products for disruptive ones. Silicon Valley was built on a culture of designing products that are “better, cheaper, faster,” but that does not mean they are disruptive. I mistook better, cheaper, faster for disruptive when I became an entrepreneur. Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor, defined “disruption” in The Innovator’s Dilemma.
An incumbent in the market finds it almost impossible to respond to a disruptive product. Thus, the innovator’s dilemma. Google: Disrupting online advertising. The initial AdWords customers were startups that couldn’t afford to advertise on Yahoo. Salesforce: Disrupting CRM. Business Models Inc. How do our favorite tech companies make money?