Siim Viidu: Archive

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Microsoft to discontinue its virtual currency... →

Jan 27th

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SVPG: Product Management Then and Now →

Jan 24th

Amazon releases DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable... →

Jan 19th

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Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds On The...

Great infographic from Business Insider on what happens on the Internet during 60 seconds. The biggest chunk is consumed by the following services 164 million emails 11 million IM-s 694,445 Google searches 695,000 Facebook status updates 510,040 Facebook comments 370,000 Skype voice calls (actually I think that with paid calls comes around 506k as per latest published stats) 98,000...

Jan 4th

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Jan 4th

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The origins of social media

The Economist (How Luther went viral) draws interesting parallels with the social media movement we know today and the spread of Reformation 500 years ago. The technology of the time (printing press) was important but so was the wider sharing of media among social circles. Thus the television, internet, Twitter and Facebook today merely enable a faster and arguably wider distribution of media and...

Dec 26th

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Fast Company: The Race For Mobile Payments →

Dec 14th

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A view of game industry with a focus on London →

Dec 9th

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Dec 4th

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Estonia as global centre for cyber security... →

Major General Jonathan Shaw, head of the defence cyber operations group at the MoD, singled out a Baltic state as a leading light when it comes to cyber readiness and being prepared for “a one-nation response”. The MoD in Estonia told SC Magazine that its ‘cyber leader’ role stems from its highly developed information society where the Estonian public and private sector...

Dec 2nd

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ArcticStartup: Wrapp Explodes Out Of Sweden,... →

Nov 14th

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With Square's Card Case, Pay By Saying Your Name →

Nov 3rd

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Network of global corporate control visualized

Researchers have created an algorithm to map and visualize corporate ownership and control across 37 million corporations globally. It turns out there are 147 companies that with stakes in each other control 40% of all wealth in the network. Not surprisingly these are mostly banks and financial institutions. Forbes article here and the research paper is here.

Nov 1st

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Nov 1st

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Wired: Brave New Thermostat: How the iPod’s... →

A household device in widespread use that has not seen innovation or indeed modern design in decades being reworked.

Oct 25th

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Google+ feedback system

Loving the feedback system on Google+. You can highlight areas of the page you want to call out at the same time blocking out private information. Google likely can pick up the story or item automatically based on my selection.

Oct 21st

Oct 18th

The Economics of Social Gaming [INFOGRAPHIC] →

Oct 18th

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Opower - Facebook social energy app →

Using social and game mechanics to help people understand their energy usage and efficiency.

Oct 17th

Microsoft Kinect brings motion-sensing tech to the... →

Oct 12th

Google debuts Dart, a new programming language for...

Via Venturebeat: This language is, as a product of the 21st century, designed with modern web browsers and modern devices — from tablets to server — in mind. According to a reportedly leaked email from last year, the language “aims to maintain the dynamic nature of JavaScript but have a better performance profile and be amenable to tooling for large projects.”

Oct 11th

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Oct 11th

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NYT: A Game to Make Zynga Nervous →

Over the last month 66.5M people have played the Sims Social on Facebook. That is more than double the audience who tuned in for Ashton Kutcher’s recent debut on the hit sitcom “Two and a Half Men.” It is roughly twice the number of copies of “The Catcher in the Rye” sold during the last 60 years. And it is about 20 million more people than have ever purchased Pink Floyd’s...

Oct 9th

Oct 6th

Flight search apps - OnTheFly and Google Flight... →

I’m sure most of you are similarly frustrated with the lack of great products to fill the seemingly simple user need or problem of flexible flight search (without actually conducting 200 searches on 10 websites or spending hours on the phone with agents). OnTheFly a mobile app from Google looks like a great step forward, so is Google flight search (this one is US only unfortunately)....

Oct 5th

Sep 29th

ERTS a transformer →

Electronic Arts (EA) CEO John Riccitiello on Cramer.

Sep 27th

Facebook and your data

Facebook is clearly moving more towards richer user data but also improving the data quality (different types of status updates - health and wellness, milestones, living etc.). While trying to get rid of spam they are also making untagging yourself on a photo harder (can now ask the person who tagged the photo to take it down also or block the person in the same flow)

Sep 25th

Sep 21st

Fascinated by Google Books Ngram Viewer. →

Sep 20th

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Sep 20th

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Sep 17th

New Startup Shaker Aims To Turn Facebook Into A...

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Sep 15th

Lorem Ipsum for hipsters →

Aug 21st

Great story. Doing social right. Makes me want to... →

Aug 18th

Research: On Facebook 3% To 7.5% Of Fans See Your... →

Aug 8th

Finextra: Germans to vote for Big Brother winner... →

This will enable the show’s 200,000 Facebook fans to vote for their favourite contestant by handing over seven Credits, worth around 49 cents.

Jul 21st

Global games business to hit $112B by 2015 →

Jul 6th

Plastic and online are taking over paper money,... →

Indeed, cash remains so pervasive, and the pace of change so slow, that Ron Shevlin, an analyst with the Boston research firm Aite Group, recently calculated that Americans would still be using paper currency in 200 years

Jul 6th

NFC World - Google Wallet “is one of the biggest... →

“This is one of the biggest investments we’ve made at Google for a very long time,” Osama Bedier, the search giant’s VP of payments has told NFC World following a presentation at the NFC Payments Europe conference in London today

Jun 24th

Spam as a business - who provides merchant... →

In particular, we provide the first strong evidence of payment bottlenecks in the spam value chain; 95% of spam-advertised pharmaceutical, replica and software products are monetized using merchant services from just a handful of banks. All told, they saw 13 banks handling 95% of the 76 orders for which they received transaction information. A bank in Azerbaijan, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla,...

Jun 20th

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