Twittter Weekend Summary

I didn’t read any tweets over the weekend. Felt kind of weired. So today I was finally able to catch up with all the stuff that was going on, here summary:

■Makani Power took in $5M for high-altitude wind energy by flying 10-square meter kites at ~800 meters altitude. The investment was made by google.org. It’s [...]

I didn’t read any tweets over the weekend. Felt kind of weired. So today I was finally able to catch up with all the stuff that was going on, here summary:

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Makani Power took in $5M for high-altitude wind energy by flying 10-square meter kites at ~800 meters altitude. The investment was made by google.org. It’s competitor is KiteGen, a Milan, Italy-based startup that flies four 500-square meter kites and produces 1 gigawatt of power… theoretically ;)

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The Boy Genius Report has some leaked pictures of the Amazon Kindle 2.0. I’m not so sure if I like it design-wise. Without the rubber back it might slip off your leg, and

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Fred Wilson pointed me to his DonorsChoose.org website, a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack — AWESOME!!! At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become classroom reality when concerned individuals, whom we call Citizen Philanthropists, choose projects to fund.

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Gary pointed me to his “Fast Company” Article of “Selling Wine the Web 2.0 Way”.

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O’Reilly’s Radar has an interview with Lane Becker, titled “Customer Service is the New Marketing”. I won’t provide the link here, as I think that it’s pretty stupid: he misses half the points, doesn’t know a thing about telecom, and compares oranges with apples. And he makes points that are no-brainers. On the other hand, that’s maybe just my opinion…

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Who dances better? Technology geeks or CPAs? Evolution of Dance Gone Wrong.

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What does peanut butter have to do with evolution? According to this gentleman quite nothing, as evolution doesn’t really exist…

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‘Novels in Three Lines’ is a great book, review here, perfect for Twitter! Read novelsin3lines… “The sinister prowler seen by the mechanic Gicquel near Herblay train station has been identified: Jules Ménard, snail collector.”

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Here’s a great list of blog posts about advertising, marketing, media & PR.

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Mark Ury has an awesome blog entry about innovation economics: “[...] Corporations (and the infrastructure that supports them like public labs, universities, and policy makers) are still in an industrial-age hangover, too blurry-eyed to notice that their organizational DNA—a military blueprint that favors information asymmetry and strict vertical hierarchies—is counterproductive to the post-grid era, a network model that encourages edge-competencies and group coordination.[...]“

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An interesting opinion by portfolio.com in the Wired Blog Network about Apple employee ratings reminded me to use all the scouting and head hunter sites for competitive anaylsis again.

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Custom Flip Books. (I don’t think I need to say more)

Chris Anderson’s Zero-Cost Digital Distribution? Not For Me!

Whoever says that storage, hardware and bandwidth are ridiculously cheap by now should try and scale (and keep operating) cloud storage for 500k+ users – or roughly $23k per month for me. While economies of scale benefit ad-based business models, they also exponentially grow your storage costs – in the worst case for things no

August 31, 2009 | (2)

The Economics of Cloud – More Than Just Services, Platforms, Infrastructure

An excellent (German) article by BITKOM summarizes business challenges, decision points, and business models of cloud-based solutions. BITKOM segments the “Cloud” space into Software, Platforms, and Infrastructure. While this is all true and good for current business, the Cloud stack looks more like Information, Relationships, Services, Platforms, Infrastructure, and Networks.

September 27, 2009 | (3)

Immersive Interactive Internet TV Platforms

Rich Internet (micro) TV portals with increasing interactivity are emerging. They include social as well as media immersion – more than just content, but a complete platform. The question is what telecoms can offer as a platform provider.

July 01, 2009 | (4)

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