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The IPA

Marcel Neuhäusler — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:04:07 +0000

[Link] : No, I am not blogging about India Pale Ale, although I must say that I am a big fan of it. I am writing about one of the best patent hacks I have seen in the decade that I have been working to find…

Xbox One: hands-on with the new controller and Kinect

Marcel Neuhäusler — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:04:07 +0000

[Link] : You can't trust the internet. Prior to the Xbox One launch event, there were rumours the controller would be a wildly different beast, perhaps with its own touch pad in response to Sony's refreshed…

Choosing the Best DSLR for Video

Marcel Neuhäusler — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:04:06 +0000

[Link] : “Which Camera Should I Buy?” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked this question. What’s more is I can’t just send them a link to one camera. There…

An Honor for the Creator of the GIF

Marcel Neuhäusler — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:04:05 +0000

[NyTimes] : "Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs. It was"

Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?

Marcel Neuhäusler — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:34:07 +0000

[Link] : Real C. elegans worms squirming in a laboratory agar plate. The have been genetically modified to express fluorescent proteins (Jesper Pedersen). For all the talk of artificial intelligence and all…

New Research Tools Kick Up Dust in Archives

Marcel Neuhäusler — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:34:06 +0000

[NyTimes] : "Seated recently in the special collections room at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology library, Anders Fernstedt raced through an imposing set of yellowing articles and correspondence. Several"

A Flashy Bet for Yahoo on a Shift in Social Media

Marcel Neuhäusler — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:34:05 +0000

[NyTimes] : "Yahoo Acquiring Tumblr: What It Means: The Times's Jenna Wortham on the reaction to Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr and what it means for users. Yahoo's $1.1 billion proposed acquisition of Tumblr is a"

High Scalability - The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars

Marcel Neuhäusler — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:34:04 +0000

[Link] : Monday, May 20, 2013 at 8:25AM It's being reported Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion. You may recall Instagram was profiled on HighScalability and they were also bought by Facebook for a ton of…

Success Has A Thousand Fathers

Marcel Neuhäusler — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:34:06 +0000

[Link] : Back in the early days of AVC, I did a thing called VC Cliche Of The Week. There was an RSS feed of all of them powered by Delicious, but it is broken and most likely can't be fixed. You can find…

Marissa Mayer: Some Tumblr users "may never come to Yahoo," and that's OK

Marcel Neuhäusler — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:34:05 +0000

[Link] : Yahoo may have acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion, but Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer stressed in an investor call Monday morning that Tumblr will continue to operate as a separate business — aided by…