August 2011
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Study: Austerity Leads to Violence And Instability →
ritholtz.com
This is very surprising. I’m glad someone wrote it down so we don’t make *that* mistake.
The relation between austerity and riots is so clear that former IMF chief economist and Noble prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz coined a phrase to describe what happens after the International Monetary Fund demands austerity in return for loans to indebted countries: “The IMF Riot”.
Mobile Web vs. Native Apps - GeekWire →
geekwire.com
At the Mobile Monday event in downtown Seattle earlier this week, four experts discussed the ups and downs of developing both for the mobile Web and native apps. Most agreed that the market, at least right now, is still very much one driven by the big app marketplaces. But changes are always on the horizon in the fast-moving mobile business.
“Advertising declares its motives. It refines and very often conceals its methods.”
—Niklas Luhmann (via gravity7)
“Shopping on cellphones and portable tablet computers like iPads accounted for about 5 percent of online sales in November, while last year mobile shopping sales were too insignificant to measure, according to Coremetrics, an e-commerce measurement service owned by I.B.M. Many more shoppers are using their phones to research items and compare prices before making purchases offline or on computers.”
—Shopping Online via Cellphone for Holiday Gifts - NYTimes.com (via smarterplanet)
Continuations: Taxes in Marketplaces: Amazon's Cloud Reader and Pressure on Apple's 30% Cut →
continuations.com
Fred’s blog post today is about how new and powerful HTML5 apps are emerging, giving the new Kindle Cloud Reader as an example. The Cloud Reader is also an example of something else: if you tax a system too much people will find ways to work around it. This is highly relevant to anyone running…
Dream Baby Dream
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen - Dream Baby Dream (Suicide cover)
