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Slack
Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield’s new Slack signed up 8,000 companies in 24 hours | VentureBeat – psyched for Stewart Butterfield. met him once during a press junket to Sunnyvale and he was a gracious host for the media. Slack is a messaging client that allows groups, internal and external. It facilitates moving a lot of communications off email. Finally Slack has APIs that allows other services to integrate or be built upon top of it. More on software here.
Culture
i-D / DJ OF THE MONTH / MP2 (MIKE PICKERING & MARTIN PRENDERGAST) / HACIENDA) | Test Pressing – loving the playlist
From Garrard To Technics – How British DJ’s Began To Mix | Greg Wilson
Economics
UK wages fall among sharpest in EU | theguardian.com
NYU-Poly Professor Formulates Algorithms that May Help Solve the Keynes-Hayek Debate | PR Newswire
You must accept fracking for the good of the country, David Cameron tells southerners – Telegraph
Why Does The American Middle Class Continue To Struggle Financially? Eurasia Review
FMCG
Moms are consuming more energy drinks than you might think – Quartz – not terribly surprising when one thinks about the amount of housewives in days past who used to drop amphetamines as a slimming aid or ‘Mummy’s little helper’ before it got restricted
How to
How Manchester United uses Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo and Google+ | Econsultancy
Ideas
The Killing Machines – Mark Bowden – The Atlantic – interesting article on drone strikes
Luxury
Jing Daily: China’s Luxury Slowdown ‘Not A Setback’
Fashion Outlets of Chicago: A Possible Game Changer for Factory Outlet Malls in the US – Analyst Insight from Euromonitor International – fashion outlet but in a shopping mall rather than strip mall design
Media
Mindshare Digital Normalness Index 2013 Reveals Singapore, Portugal And China Lead Online Motivations League Table – interesting data on western countries that have lower usage and motivation for using online social platforms
Why Won’t Vinyl Die? » Sabotage Times
Choosing Sides: Who’s Partnered with Who in China’s Internet War? – interesting consolidation through partnerships and equity holdings breaking out on Chinese internet
Digital out-of-home fail for Ford | The Wall Blog – interesting research data points in here regarding what consumers react to in out-of-home advertising
Online
– Thisisgoingtobebig.com – The Underwhelmingness of Facebook
Tencent denies WeChat Singapore IPO as Sina wins more eyeballs for Weibo – Quartz
Business, Etiquette and Social Media | TIME.com
Interbrand 100′s YouTube Videos Have a Long Shelf Life
I’m 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook
Facebook announces changes to News Feed formula – Brand Republic News
Search engines not seen as a major player in music piracy, despite the RIAA’s claims | The Verge
Retailing
Security
(SBIR) DoD-DARPA – Defense Against National Vulnerabilities in Public Data – big data is the achilles heel for modern societies
Norway BANS Apple from Oslo’s skies: No aerial Maps app snaps allowed • The Register
You Might Have an Invisible Facebook Account Even if You Never Signed Up
I, Cringely Is cyber insurance AAA for data or another back door? – I, Cringely – insanity
Surveillance: The enemy of Innovation – at least according to Jean-Louis Gassee
Software
What is WebGL and why should you be using it? | The Wall Blog
BlackBerry Said to Have Sought Buyers Since 2012 – Bloomberg – not terribly surprised. The QNX business is interesting, their infrastructure for compressed encrypted web traffic as is the the secure-ish network – the big challenge there would be about getting it to work well with other devices when they struggled to do so with BB10
Research Suggests Joyn Struggles As Operators Partner With OTT Providers
TelecomTV | News | Android increases its grip, nothing else changes much – it makes IDC look like a laughing stock
Technology
Apple’s evolving view of “pro” « Observatory
Telecoms
TelecomTV | Mobile revenue: What goes up… – interesting convergence of margins
Wireless
All those people with cheap Android smartphones have finally started buying apps – Quartz
Samsung Sells Over 15 Million Smartphones In China In Q2 Eurasia Review
Chinese consumers won’t pay high prices for domestic mobile phones Xiaomi still looks for rounds of funding. There is the volume but there may not be the profits
Intel Acquires Fujitsu Wireless | EE Times – Intel bulks up on talent
TelecomTV | Smartphone boom may be slowing as the oldies hold out