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How Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma
hype7 writes "With yesterday's release of the Steve Jobs biography, a raft of interesting information has come to light — including Jobs' favorite books. There's one book there listed as 'profoundly moving' to Jobs — The I… Continue reading
How Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma
hype7 writes "With yesterday's release of the Steve Jobs biography, a raft of interesting information has come to light — including Jobs' favorite books. There's one book there listed as 'profoundly moving' to Jobs — The I… Continue reading
Densely-linked cluster of 147 companies control 40% of world’s total wealth
The network of global corporate control (PDF), a study published in PLOS One, analyzes the ownership structures of the world’s corporations and finds a tightly-knit cluster of 147 entities control 40 percent of the world’s wealth. Not only is this cr… Continue reading
Better, Faster, Stronger
Rebecca Mead |
New Yorker |
Sep 2011
A profile of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek.
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How Corporate Branding Has Taken Over America | Books | The Guardian
Naomi Klein |
The Guardian |
May 2011
What happened when the U.S. Military decided to take its lead from America’s biggest brands.
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Tagged blackwater, branding, Business, Iraq War, logo, Marketing, Naomi Klein, outsourcing, syndicated, The Guardian, U.S. Military, Uncategorized
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RSA SecurID breach linked to hacker attack on Lockheed Martin; other US military contractors may be affected
[F-35 Lightning II, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), planes built by Lockheed Martin arrive at Edwards Air Force Base in California in this May 2010 photo. REUTERS/Tom Reynolds/Lockheed Martin]
This week, Lockheed Martin—the largest … Continue reading
SSL certificate authorities put us all at risk by handing out certs for “mail” “webmail” and other unqualified domains
In the wake of the revelation that a major SSL certificate provider suffered a serious breach, Chris Palmer from the Electronic Frontier Foundation has analysis of the common practice of issuing certificates for unqualified domain names, such as “mail”… Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Business, eff, ssl, syndicated
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World’s largest spam botnet goes down (for now?)
Brian Krebs reports on the takedown of the command-and-control servers for Rustock, the largest and most successful spam botnet. The botnet’s output has fallen from thousands of spams per second to one or two spams per second:
It may yet be too soo… Continue reading
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Tagged Action, botnet, Business, infosec, spam, syndicated
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Ebook readers’ bill of rights
LibraryGoblin sez, “The Librarian in Black, Sarah Houghton-Jan, has posted this call for basic e-book user’s rights. She’s released it into the public domain and is encouraging people to spread it as far and wide as possible. Enough of anti-user DRM an… Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Business, drm, ebook, Gadgets, library, manifesto, submitterator, syndicated
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Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?
Matt Taibbi |
Rolling Stone |
Mar 2010
“The entire system set up to monitor and regulate Wall Street is fucked up. Just ask the people who tried to do the right thing.”
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Tagged bernie madoff, Business, Con Men, Crime, Editor's Pick, Financial Crash, Goldman Sachs, syndicated, Wall Street
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Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property: understanding the state of play in global knowledge politics
Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property is a book and free download from MIT press:
What might “terminator” seeds, access to medicines, free software, and free culture have to do with one another? Do the global attempts to push back… Continue reading
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Tagged Action, book, Business, copyfight, creativecommons, foss, genome, patent, syndicated, wipo
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How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big Brother
William D. Hartung |
Guernica |
Jan 2011
Lockheed Martin is the largest government contractor in history. They train TSA workers and Guantanamo interrogators. Every American household pays them around $260 per year in taxes. The new military industrial… Continue reading
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Car immobilizers cracked due to crappy proprietary crypto
Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs, a white-hat hacker, believes that a recent spike in car theft is due to a break in the car immobilizer security systems; thieves are able to re-mobilize the immobilized vehicles. My question is: how long until so… Continue reading
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Tagged automotive, Business, copyfight, syndicated
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2010?s Best Long Reads: Business
Longreads and Brain Pickings have teamed up to highlight the most compelling in-depth stories published on the web this year. Earlier, we featured the best of Art, Design, Film & Music. Next up: Business. Here are 10 must-reads from 2010, from “w… Continue reading
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Tagged Best of, Business, free market, partnerships, retail, syndicated
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In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm
David Segal |
NYT Magazine |
Dec 2010
It’s now routine for corporations to outsource the task of generating new ideas. A look at the consulting firms who meet that need.
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EFF on US domain copyright seizures
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Corynne McSherry’s got great commentary on the Department of Homeland Security’s seizure of 82 domain names — this act of quasi-legal confiscation and censorship is not only ineffective at combatting infringement… Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Business, censorship, coica, copyfight, dhs, mpaa, p2p, riaa, syndicated
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A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web
David Segal |
NY Times |
Nov 2010
DecorMyEyes is a online eyewear store with an unusual business plan; the owner harasses and intimidates customers who complain in order to get negative reviews posted across the web, in turn making his website more vis… Continue reading
Publisher sells DRM-free ebooks to libraries
German publisher Springer Verlag decided not to infect the 40,000 ebook titles it sells to libraries with DRM — though the booksellers that carry Springer titles still insist on DRM for their proprietary stores. As a result, “once libraries have paid … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, copyfight, ebooks, germany, syndicated
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Grocery store ripoffs
Livecheap enumerates five common grocery store product-categories that delivery less stuff at higher prices — things like diluted bleach, plumped chickens, and hint of fruit “juice” that are mostly water. (via Consumerist)
Smart Swarm: popular science book on emergence meets business-advice book
Peter Miller’s The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done is half popular science book, half business book, covering one of my favorite subjects: eme… Continue reading
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