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This short profile of Beats By Dre contains many nuggets of marketing wisdom. When developing the first Beats headphones, Iovine would lay out various prototypes in his Interscope offices and then poll everyone who came to see him. “It was this incredible parade of the world’s great artists,” says Wood. “M.I.A. or Pharrell Williams or…
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Reimagining Monopoly
jkottke: Mike Merrill reimagines the game of Monopoly to better represent the modern financial system by adding the banker as a player, convertible notes, and Series A financing. Each player starts with only $500. That’s a nice bit of cash, but it’s going to be expensive to build your capitalist empire. Baltic Avenue will cost…
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likeapairofbottlerockets: tomewing: dynamofire: pewinternet: “Finally, the refrigerator will talk to my smartphone to tell it I need to order milk before I am out.” Many experts say the rise of embedded and wearable computing (the “Internet of Things”) will bring the next revolution in digital technology. The upsides: enhanced health, convenience, productivity; The downsides: challenges…
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Pew Research: The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025
I’m trying to figure out what it means that our B-school is talking about the internet of things without mentioning spime-wrangling or the ethics of everyware. kateoplis: “Here are the easy facts: In 2008, the number of Internet-connected devices first outnumbered the human population, and they have been growing far faster than have we. There…
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Mozilla breaks our hearts, adds DRM to Firefox
Mozilla breaks our hearts, adds DRM to Firefox mostlysignssomeportents: For months, I’ve been following the story that the Mozilla project was set to add closed source Digital Rights Management technology to its free/open browser Firefox, and today they’ve made the announcement, which I’ve covered in depth for The Guardian. Mozilla made the decision out of…