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Peter Bihr Fantastic and alarming read about security flaws inherent in our connected, cloud-based accounts - notably Amazon, Apple, Google.
Then there's the phone. The "phone" part of the mobile phone is important not because of the voice communication it enables, but rather from the habit and etiquette that the ringing bell created in society and the direct access it grants to the caller. It's the promise of instant communication at the cost of having attention interrupted and redirected. The key to unlocking that attention is a semi-random sequence of digits which you can give to someone else to indicate that the person now has permission to interrupt you and to access your attention directly.
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Peter Bihr Fantastic read on identity and mobile services. Must, must read.
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Peter Bihr "It" being a neural network computer at the Google X Labs. (whoa.)
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Peter Bihr Jeff Staple on collaborations. Read now!
Tracking and “personalizing”—the current frontier of online advertising—probe the limits of tolerance. While harvesting mountains of data about individuals and signaling nothing obvious about their methods, tracking and personalizing together ditch one of the few noble virtues to which advertising at its best aspires: respect for the prospect’s privacy and integrity, which has long included a default assumption of anonymity.
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Peter Bihr Doc Searls' take on ads on facebook & co is certainly worth reading.
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Peter Bihr Spot on, as always.
I wasn’t interested in managing, but as I started to do it, I got more comfortable. I think it’s that first leap that everybody takes. For me, it was the transition from being someone who was a little bit the student who liked to throw spitballs. So you make that transition to being the teacher, and you have to be in charge, as opposed to being the person who can cause trouble, instigate and provoke, which I always found a much more comfortable place to be. At some point, you go even further, and you become the administrator, and you’re setting policies.
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Peter Bihr excellent interview on leadership, and growing into new roles
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Peter Bihr Alex D-S about building everyday IoT products. Spot on.
If we had that much situational awareness about you and at the same time we were building this very high-level map of the world, and I don't just mean where Starbuck's is, but all sorts of things like historical footnotes and people you might want to meet. I started thinking about games that we can build that would allow us to triangulate you in that space and build that deep situational awareness. There will be all types of games, but the key will be focusing the experiences, including multiplayer, within the real world and away from the fictional world that games currently invest in.
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Peter Bihr Sounds like Will Wright is building a serendipity machine.
The way I see it, there’s a lack of need for any legislation at all. As a publisher, I have a very deep experience here, and the fact is that piracy is not a significant problem. Yes, there are people who are pirating my books, there are people who are sharing links to places where they can be downloaded. But the vast majority of customers are willing to pay if the product is widely available and the price is fair. If you have a relationship with your customers, and they know you’re doing the right thing, they will support you.
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Peter Bihr This comes from a man who understands both sides very well - technology and publishing. Take it from him that we don't need SOPA, or any of the other similar bills.
The people who feel this way have always been a minority of the readership, a fact obscured by print bundles, but made painfully visible by paywalls. When a paper abandons the standard paywall strategy, it gives up on selling news as a simple transaction. Instead, it must also appeal to its readers’ non-financial and non-transactional motivations: loyalty, gratitude, dedication to the mission, a sense of identification with the paper, an urge to preserve it as an institution rather than a business.
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Peter Bihr Where paywalls are involved, things get tricky. Clay Shirky analyzed how the New York Times managed to successfully launch their "porous" paywall.
Warum ist das anders geworden? Unter anderem deshalb, weil die Mediengesellschaft über viel mehr und größere Gebläse verfügt als die Gesellschaft vor 30 und 40 Jahren. Vielleicht auch deswegen, weil es den Amtsbonus immer weniger gibt, der selbst demjenigen Amtsinhaber eine Aura gab, der keine hatte. Diesen Bonus hat das Internet in einen Malus verwandelt, weil es dort eine besondere Lust daran gibt, aus Dreckkübeln, die in ausländischen Servern gefüllt werden, ungestraft auf Hass-Subjekte zu schütten. Wulff war und ist da eines der Opfer.
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Peter Bihr WTF, Süddeutsche? Woher kommt denn bitte in diesem ansonsten recht zurückhaltend geschriebenem, eher arrogant-analytischem Kommentar dieser Wutausbruch? Und woher die "in ausländischen Servern gefüllten Dreckkübel"?
ShortTask, the second-largest U.S. crowdsourcing site studied, was found to be 95 percent crowdturfing tasks
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Peter Bihr yeah well, that sucks.
When you have a signed letter from the engineers responsible for creating the Internet pointing out that this bill would jeopardize our cybersecurity, balkanize the Internet and create a climate of uncertainty that would stifle innovation, it seems odd to ignore it. As a general rule, when the people saying that this will have a horrible, chilling impact on something are the ones who created that thing in the first place, and the people who are saying, “Oh, no, it’ll be fine, it only targets the bad actors” are members of the Motion Picture Association of America, it seems obvious whose […]
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Peter Bihr Good #genflux article.