We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
Once upon a time Michael Arrington broke the news that Facebook was developing its own phone. That was in 2010. However in a followup interview with TechCrunch, Mark Zuckerberg killed the notion, saying they’re pursuing a horizontal strategy that will put a social layer on top of existing platforms. “We’re not trying to compete with Apple or the Droid or any other hardware manufacturer for that ma
Symform, a company that brings peer-to-peer technology to bear on the cloud storage problem, netted a possible $11 million in a new Series B investment round led by WestRiver Capital and including OVP and Longworth Venture Partners — all previous investors with the Seattle-based company. Erik Anderson of WestRiver Capital joins the Symform Board of Directors. The company actually logged $8 million
As China’s two online video leaders merge to improve their position in the fast-growing field, three of their rivals are also teaming up to fight back. The Tencent and Sohu portals and Baidu’s iQiyi video service are collaborating to jointly license professional content. China Daily: “They will also share their existing content libraries and provide other mutual support.” The leading Youku and Tud
[読了時間:1分] 福岡市役所は、同市の都市間競争力の向上を目指し、4月27日より、誰でも無料で使える福岡市公衆無線LANサービス「Fukuoka City Wi-Fi」をスタートすると発表した。 市営地下鉄空港線の全駅、天神の観光案内所、市役所本庁舎1階ロビー、西広場で、無線LANが無料で利用できるようになる。地下鉄駅で自治体が無料の無線LANサービスを行うのは全国でも初めてという。 また6月末までに地下鉄全線全駅と、博多駅の観光案内所などでも利用可能にする計画。 蛇足:オレはこう思う これから人口激減時代に入って栄える自治体、破綻する自治体の2極化が進むと見られているけど、恐らく福岡は栄えていくんだろうな。 日本版SXSWとも呼ぶべき音楽とITの祭典「明星和楽」なんておしゃれなイベントも始まったし、新しい時代に向けて積極的に動いているのが非常に好感を持てる。 すごいな、福岡。
Metro スタイル アプリ開発の大きなポイントとして「非同期」が上げられる。非同期とは何か? それが、Metro スタイル アプリにどんな効果をもたらすのか? ここでは非同期の説明とその重要さについて説明しよう。(画面は、基調講演でデモをするスティーブン・シノフスキー氏。すぐに起動し、すぐスリープできる軽快さをアピール) さて、まず「データをダウンロードして表示する」という処理をすることを思い浮かべて欲しい。 “同期”の場合、ダウンロード中に他の操作をすることができない。ダウンロード処理が終了のするのを待ち、それから次の処理に移るというもの。 [データダウンロードを実行]→[ダウンロード]→[ファイルとして保存]→[開く] 電話をイメージすると解りやすい。電話をかけ、相手が出て、通話を始めるというプロセスこそ同期である。考えてみれば、私たちが日頃仕様するWebの世界はクリックして次の表示
【翻訳 by Conyac】 【原文】 CloudFactoryは魅力的なビジネスコンセプトを持っている。ヒマラヤのネパールに拠点があるというだけでなく、発展途上国の100万人(ネパール自体も含む)にウェブ上で仕事を与えられる。 CloudFactoryのサービスを利用する会社は、オンラインの仕事(例えば悪質なコンテンツへのフラグ付け、データ入力、音声データの転記、OCRの訂正、イメージへのタグ付けなど)をこなすために膨大な労働力を得ることができる。雇われる側は、自分の家で基本的なパソコン業務を行う職に就くことができる。仕事の多くは、デジタル化、カテゴリ化、適正化、さらには翻訳などだ。 妻と共にネパールに2週間の休暇で訪れたMark Searsが2008年に起業したもので(結局彼らはそのままネパールに住みついた)、カトマンズのオフィスに40名のスタッフ(その多くはソフトウェアエンジニアであ
本日、(米国時間4月24日)に、GoogleはストレージサービスのGoogle Driveをローンチした。 長らく、噂されていたものだけに、これまでオンラインストレージサービスとして人気を博していたDropboxとの比較や差別化などがきになるところだ。 Google Driveのページにいくと、Google Driveの概要説明などが書かれている。Google Driveは、その多くがDropboxとそっくりだ。しかし、大きな点は、これまでのGoogle Docsと統合し、オンラインで5GBまでの無料のストレージを提供する。筆者は、Google Driveをさっそくダウンロードしてみた。 ダウンロードをおこなうと、そのあとは、これまでGoogle Docsにあった資料を同期するかのナビゲーションがでてくる。 同期終了後は、これまでのGoogle Docsの利用と同じように使うだけで、自動的
Home Topics Drug Discovery $3.25B Tysabri Deal a Win-Win for Biogen Idec, Elan Biogen Idec’s $3.25 billion-plus-royalties purchase of all rights to Tysabri (natalizumab), the multiple sclerosis drug it co-developed with Elan, boosts Biogen Idec’s presence in MS drugs while leaving the Irish-owned biotech in the enviable position of having control of its future, and some spending cash to boot, afte
[読了時間:2分] Facebookの普及などでリアルな人間関係がネット上に反映されるようになり、ユーザー間を情報がどのように流れるのかといったデータが取れるようになってきた。そこで人間関係のタイプごとのデータ流通の特性を活かしたサービスやアプリの開発が今後盛んになってくるのだと思う。マーケティングもそうだし、メディアや教育関連のサービスも、人間関係をベースに、まったく新しいものが作られてくるように思う。 そしてそうした新しいサービスのベースになる考え方は、「弱い絆」で遭遇した新しい情報をベースに「強い絆」で議論を進める、というものになるのではないかと思う。 自分と仲のいい人は前提となる情報を理解しているし、情報源も似通っている。なので話が早い。また特定の分野におけるリテラシーのレベルが近い人との議論も、同様に短時間で一気に進み、学びが多い。 一方で、情報源が同じ場合が多いので、同じような
OpenUDID Gets Back-Up From 17 Mobile Ad Companies In The Hunt For UDID Alternatives OpenUDID, a new, open-source identification scheme created by marketing company Appsfire, says it has rounded up support from 17 mobile advertising companies (including itself) as developers look for alternatives to the UDID. Mobile app developers are scrambling for solutions as Apple phases out an older unique ID
内面からにじみでる女性の美しさをサポートする「プレミアム・アクティブ・インナービューティプロジェクト(PAIB)」委員会による第一回セミナーが2012年4月11日、都内で開催された。 第一部では最初に森永製菓執行役員・ウイダー事業部本部長の松崎勲氏が「森永製菓ウイダーブランド構築の裏側」のタイトルで講演。ゼリー飲料と圧倒的な市場シェアを誇るブランドに育てた舞台裏を公開した。 同氏がポイントとしたのは、アスリートでのエビデンスから一般への流れ。アスリートが認めるものは一般にとって大きく響く、というスタンスを製品開発において常に持つことで、市場価値を高め、ブランド力を磨き上げていったという。 続いて、ファンケル事業商品戦略本部機能性食品事業部事業部長の梶原伸子氏が「ファンケルン最新マーケティング」について解説。同社ではあらゆるルートから入ってくる月2万件近い顧客の声をクレームのみでなく、問い合
【翻訳 by Conyac】 【原文】 Zyngaが大ヒットソーシャルゲームのDraw Somethingを買収した[1]直後、中国のTencent(腾讯)がすでにその類似ゲームを作りローカライズしたというニュースが入った。そのプロモーション画像(参照:上と下)から、その巧みなリメイク版の名は「Guess Wha」で、iPhone向けにまもなくリリースされることがわかる。 ピクショナリー系のゲームに中国語漢字を使うのは非現実的なので、Tencentはローマ字(別名pinyin)を用い、ヒントには答えとして可能性のあるアルファベット文字を表示している。この流出画像を見ると、当然ながらTencentのQQ Gamesプラットフォームに組み込まれているようだ。 Tencentは中国のソーシャルゲームの大手企業であり、最もカジュアルなソーシャルゲームからCrossfireなどのMMO(多人数参加
【翻訳 by Conyac】 【原文】 Weixin(微信)は世界最大のグループメッセージングアプリで、先週そのユーザ数は1億人に到達した。この数字は主に熱心な中国人ユーザーによって達成されたものだ。最新のレポートによれば、中国の大手ソーシャルメディア企業であるTencent(腾讯)は、このアプリにWeChatという英語名をつけてグローバル展開させるつもりでいる。 WeChatブランドとしては、バージョン4.0のアプリが数週間のあいだに登場する予定だ。Tencentはすでにwechat.meというURLを獲得しているものの、サイト上ではまだ名称変更が実施されていない。理由はおそらく、非中国語圏の人々にとってWeixinという言葉を発音するのが困難であるからだろう。特に「x」は中国語以外のほとんどの言語圏の人々から「z」や「s」と誤って発音される恐れがある(実際は英語の「sh」の発音に近い
Incubator Lemnos Labs Is Looking For Its Next Class Of Hardware Startups It seems like everyone’s worried about an incubator bubble, but seriously — Lemnos Labs is doing something different. It’s not just incubating the latest social network or iPhone app. Instead, it’s looking for startups that actually build stuff, and by stuff, I mean hardware. At first, hardware and incubators sound like an od
【翻訳 by Conyac】 【原文】 楽天は本日(原文掲載4月20日)、中国でBaidu(百度)と提携して作ったeコマースベンチャーである「Lekutian」(楽酷天)を閉鎖する事を同社ホームページにて発表(PDFリリース文はこちら)した。現在、Rakuten.cnのドメインにアクセスすると下記のようなメッセージが表示される: 「Lakutianは残念ながら大事な変更点をお知らせしないといけません。経営層による慎重な決断の末、Lakutianは4月27日にサービスを終了いたします」。 これまで支援してきた顧客に感謝と謝罪の意を表す一方で、Lekutianポイントは27日以降は使用できず、もう使えない事を説明した。従って26日の午前0時以降ポイントは価値を失うので顧客は6日(注:本文掲載日からだと2日)しかポイントを使う日がない。 楽天は、中国の顧客に中国語にも対応している楽天のグローバル
The first version of the app [iTunes link] was born on a bench in an airport “after eight hours of hard coding and three liters of Coca Cola," creators Michele Mastroianni and Stefano Mendicino told us. "The world has fallen in love with Pinterest and many people we know -- for example our girlfriends-- spend hours browsing other people's images and pinning,” Mastroianni told Mashable. “So me and
【翻訳 by Conyac】 【原文】 先日「中国はeコマースの売り上げを2015年までに2兆8000億米ドルにしようしているが、あわててお金を使うのは止めてほしい!」という記事を書き、インターネットを通じた急速な発展によってeコマース事業を運営・ 管理する能力が失われていることを強調した。 インターネットの普及率が高ければ売り上げも伸びるが、必ずしも利益率が高くなるわけではない。持続的な収益を上げようと苦労するeコマース企業は今も多い。DangDang(当当)のCEOであるLi Guoqingは、360Buyのeコマースの経営を「でたらめ」だと痛烈に批判し、360Buyは1米ドル稼ぐのに4米ドル費やしていると述べた。 China Dailyは先日、顧客が360Buyを訴えているというニュースを発表した。360Buyが観光旅行を1人民元つまり16セントで販売し、顧客を欺いたというものだ。
Pharo is a clean, innovative, open-source Smalltalk-inspired environment. Pharo ProjectはオープンソースのSmalltalk実装の最新版「Pharo 1.4」を公開した。Pharoはオブジェクト指向プログラミング「Smalltalk」のオープンソース実装として開発されていた「Squeak 3.9」環境から派生したオブジェクト指向プログラミング言語及び開発環境。MIT Licenseのもとオープンソースで開発されている。 Pharoは開発にGoogle Codeを使用しており、1.4ではIssue Trackerで扱っていた860以上の問題を修正している。例えば、新しいコードモデルとして「Ring」の採用、スタートアップスクリプト用のメニュアイテムの追加、「headless」モードの改善、インスペクタツール
Aaron Levie, founder and CEO of Box, said even with the long-awaited arrival of Google Drive, he still doesn’t see Google (s goog) as a competitor. That’s because he sees Box as more of a dedicated collaboration platform that happens to have storage and syncing, making Microsoft’s Sharepoint (s msft) more of a direct rival than Google Drive. “You can’t accidentally build a collaboration platform,
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
Bebo, which has hit one rocky patch after another the past few years, now has new troubles. The social network’s founders and some other shareholders are suing its current owner, alleging fraud. Original co-founders Michael and Xochi Birch’s MXB Holdings, Ron Conway’s SV Angel investment vehicle, TV executive Michael Jackson and entrepreneur Richard Hecker have filed suit against Criterion Capital
The New York Times (s nyt) recently ran an exclusive exposé about Walmart and bribery allegations in Mexico, a story that helped to shave about $16 billion from the retailing giant’s (s wmt) market value over the past few days. For Reuters blogger Felix Salmon, that sparked an idea: why not sell early access to that kind of story to customers who might want to pay for it — say, hedge funds who cou
Facebook has been in the process of ramping up its effort to leverage its ever-growing platform to aid mobile developers to market their native and HTML5-based apps. In this attempt to extend its platform on mobile, Facebook brought its social channels and social app discovery to mobile web apps on Android and native apps on iOS. With a new update to Facebook for Android, the social network today
Hardware Apple’s Chinese iPhone Sales “Mind-Boggling,” Bring China Revenues To $7.9B The angry mobs in Beijing weren’t lying. Apple’s iPhone 4 has made a splash in China, bringing the company’s phone sales there up by fivefold from a year ago. The device didn’t debut there until this last quarter, months after it had been released in the U.S. Revenue in China reached a record $7.9 billion, which i
Apple Q2 Earnings: Apple Now Has Over $110 Billion In Cash Reserves Apple has once again beaten analysts’ expectations with its Q2 results out today, and correspondingly the iPhone giant now has an even stronger cash position than it did before: $110 billion in the six months ended March 31, 2012 versus $81.5 billion in the six months ended September 24, 2011. In cash and cash equivalents the comp
Apple just released its FY2012 Q2 earnings and will host its earnings call at 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern today. We will live blog this call for you below, but you can also listen in to the call here (QuickTime required). As a reminder, here are some of the highlights from Apple’s numbers: quarterly revenue: $39.2 billion net profit: $6 billion iPhone sold: 35.1 million iPads sold: 11.8 million (up
Apple Q2 2012: 35.1M iPhones, 11.8M iPads, 4M Macs, and 7.7M iPods Apple just released its second quarter financial numbers. Overall hardware sales decreased from its record previous quarter but with the notable exception of the iPods: they’re up from the same quarter a year ago. Apple sold 88% more iPhones in the quarter than it did during the same time last year. In addition to huge year-over-ye
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
Apple’s Q2 2012: $11.6B In Profit, $39.2B In Revenue, 35.1M iPhones Sold Apple has just posted their Q2 2012 financials, and revealed that over the last 14 weeks the company has pulled in $11.6 billion in profit on $39.2 billion in revenue, which breaks down to $12.30 per share. Analysts expected earnings of $10.02 per share on $36.81 billion in revenue. Apple soundly exceeded the Q2 guidance they
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The reasons are technical, and they go back to 2007. That was the year the trojan first surfaced, according to PC World. The malware, which can infect both Windows and Mac computers, essentially creates a botnet by changing how the machine accessed DNS. DNS (Domain Name Service) is how the web organizes its addresses. It's the system that lets you simply type in "mashable.com" instead of some kind
VMware (s vmw) has acquired Cetas, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based big data startup that provides analytics atop the Hadoop platform. Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed yet, but Cetas is an 18-month-old company with tens of paying customers, including within the Fortune 1000, that didn’t need to rush into an acquisition. So, why did VMware make such a compelling offer? Because VMware is all about
GamesBeat Summit Call for Speakers We’re thrilled to open our call for speakers to our flagship event, GamesBeat Summit 2024 hosted in Los Angeles, where we will explore the theme of “Resilience and Adaption”. The huge opportunity has stirred a lot of mergers and acquisitions between social gaming companies and online gambling companies, as both parties think about invading the other’s territory.
Over the last few months you may have noticed more video appearing on Mashable. We’re currently producing original content to complement our news coverage, shows like “World at Work” that dive deeper into a given topic (social entrepreneurship in this case), and specials like “Leaders in Digital” that go one-on-one with thought leaders at events like CES and SXSW. Today, we’re excited to announce
The details are still fuzzy on the new stealth video startup Planet Daily Networks, founded by Huffington Post (s aol) co-founder Ken Lerer and former CEO Eric Hippeau, but it appears that the company has nabbed $5 million in funding, according to a new SEC filing first spotted by Betabeat. The Form D filing doesn’t say who is investing in the start-up, but lists Fred Harman of Oak Investment Part
[nggallery id=5259] After weeks of rumors, Google has finally launched its cloud-storage service, Drive. Like Microsoft SkyDrive, Dropbox and Amazon Cloud Drive, the service syncs users' offline files with an online storage space that can be accessed from anywhere. Unlike these other services, however, it has Google Docs built right into it. Just like before, users can collaborate and comment on d
Indie Band Metric Wants You to Rock Out on Interactive Site for New Song How? On interactive website ILoveMetric.com, fans can unlock the band's handwritten lyrics and sheet music. The lyrics are being released in four tiers. Fans must place the lyrics that pop up on the website in the appropriate spot on a piece of paper (see below). The correct placement spawns rewards. Tier one leads to a YouTu
World's First Asteroid Mining Company will Blast Off in 2013 [VIDEO] It's for real: Planetary Resources, the world's newest and most audacious space company, is set to start prospecting near-Earth asteroids by the end of 2013. The asteroid-mining startup, backed by billionaires such as Google's Larry Page, Eric Schmidt and famed director James Cameron, held its launch event Tuesday at the Museum o
Over the past couple of months, our government has taken significant steps to provide consumers with greater control over their online data. In late February, the Obama administration presented its Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. Weeks later, the FTC issued its final report on consumer privacy in which it urged private companies to embrace self-regulatory practices. To its credit, the government
Zidisha: The Online Micro-loan Platform That Kiva Wants to Be Like Sound familiar? You may be thinking of Kiva, a much larger online micro-lending platform that has channeled more than $300 million of online loans to the developing world. Kiva recently launched Kiva Zip, which eliminates the middleman by sending loans directly to mobile phones -- just like Zidisha does. Zidisha has never used inte
As government strives to keep up with the broadband age, the Senate’s Commerce Committee held a hearing today covering the future of television, but midway through the hearing I realized that the Senate has it all wrong. The future of TV isn’t to be found in deregulation — it’s on the Internet. We just have to let it happen. And to do that, Congress needs to look at how broadband providers control
Only 2 More Days to Vote for Mashable's Webby Award Nomination Mashable has been nominated for a Webby Award in the Websites category for best business blog. There are only two more days left to vote! You can help us win the People's Voice Award by voting here. Polls are open until April 26. Business coverage has always been core to Mashable since our days covering early Web 2.0 companies. Today,
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
Tumblr isn't just for cat pictures and grainy animated vignettes. OK, it is mostly for those things, but that doesn't mean we can't inject a little high-minded discourse into the world of social blogging. There are a number of academics and enthusiasts who use the platform to share, curate and discuss the latest coolness that is SCIENCE. Love gazing at galaxies? We've got that. All about exploring
'Truman Show'-Style Online Game Uses Actors, Not Animation You tell him to stick his camera phone out of a tiny window that you notice behind him. There's a combination written on the side of the boat that unlocks his door, and he opens it to a deck scattered with riddles and puzzles that will ultimately -- with your help cracking them -- lead to his rescue. This is a computer game, of course, but
As the fateful day of Facebook’s initial public offering draws closer, the giant social network’s financial results are attracting more and more attention. And while there are some blockbuster numbers in its recently updated securities filing — including a mind-boggling 900 million active users, half a billion of whom use the site daily — there are also some potential red flags, including rapidly
Announced on the company blog Tuesday, the service will integrate with Google Docs and will allow you to access files from anywhere and collaborate on documents with colleagues. Google Docs is built right into Google Drive, which means you can work with others in real time on documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Once you've shared content with someone else, you can add and reply to comments
Google Drive Is Live With 5GB Of Free Storage And Google Docs Hookup You can now try Google Drive, Google’s Dropbox competitor, at drive.google.com. UPDATE – The app is now available for download and I installed it, creating a folder on my computer that acts as a GDrive sync area. All of my Google Docs appeared as “icons” in the folder. And I was able to drag in files from my PC. Files that I adde
1200近いテクノロジー企業が集まるロンドンの「Tech City」。このTech Cityで特徴的なのは、デザイン面に力を入れているスタートアップ企業が目立つことだ。使いやすい製品やサービスを設計し、いかにユーザーの感性に訴えられるか。独自のアイデアで他社との違いを出している、そうした企業を紹介する。 デジタルデザイン専門のスタジオ「ustwo」 「ustwo」は、デジタルデザインのスタジオである。2004年の設立で現在は104人の従業員が働いてる。前回の記事で紹介したMind Candy社と同じTea Buildingにオフィスがある、Tech Cityの中では比較的古参で規模の大きな企業である。 ustwoでは、いろいろな企業の製品やサービスに関するユーザーインタフェース(UI)およびユーザーの操作性に関するデザインの仕事をしている。たとえば、2005年からソニー・エリクソンの公式デ
Google Outs Google Drive On Its French Blog: Here Are All The Details After years of rumors, it looks like the Google Drive has finally arrived. While we are still waiting for official word from Google, but earlier today, the company apparently mistakenly posted the French translation of its announcement to its French blog (and quickly deleted it, of course). Thankfully, intrepid Google+ user Fran
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
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