Technology
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Why Can't Hollywood Get Technology Right?
Where Honey Boo Boo, Barack Obama, and Madonna Meet
About a Boycott: After Starbucks Caves, U.K. Sets Sights on Tech Giants
On December 11, Slim Smith decided to take Shindig!, the cult British music magazine he publishes, off Amazon.co.uk. With Christmas just around the corner, it was a risky move. But Smith was so angry about Amazon’s tax evasion that he didn't want the site to make any money from his magazine, even if the decision cost him sales. “On a personal level, I don’t have to shop at Amazon, but this magazine I publish was being sold there. That put me in a bit of quandary,” he told me. READ MORE >>
Silicon Valley Needs to Stop Fighting and Sign a Free-Trade Agreement
The most dramatic trade war in the world today isn’t being waged between nations, but in cyberspace. And instead of tariffs on, say, grain or cars, the barrier is blocked apps. READ MORE >>
Bad Odds: Online Gaming Would Only Widen Tribal Inequality
On a recent Wednesday morning, under the gaze of a mounted bison head, Native American tribal leaders filled the Senate Indian Affairs Room for their annual legislative summit. They'd been there many times before, asking for fixes to the laws that govern their existence. This time, however, brought more than the usual sense of unease. READ MORE >>
Silicon Valley’s Profit-Killing Provincialism
JOHN SCHNIPKOWEIT shouldn’t have problems finding investors. A few years ago, he started and sold a business that set up WiFi hotspots at hotels and airports. His new project, a Facebook application that helps organize after-work sports leagues, employs seven people and is doing well in private beta testing. In Silicon Valley, which loves ideas that disrupt hidebound folkways, it’d get funded in a second. READ MORE >>
The Downside of the Startup Failure Craze
In 2010, Schuyler Brown had his first experience with a feeling all too familiar for startup founders: failure. His branding strategy firm was struggling, and it was time to move on. “I felt like shit,” he says. “I felt like personally I was a failure, that personally it was something to be ashamed of. And I was just trying to understand what happened.” READ MORE >>
Reddit Risks Upvoting Itself Into Political Obsolescence
The End of .Com Hegemony and the Coming URL Gold Rush
The Internet, as boundless as it seems, has at least one significant limit: Its inventory of addresses. There are only so many URLs out there—variants of just a few dozen well-known domain name extensions, from your plain-vanilla .com to the comparatively edgy .fm. The domains are administered by different entities, each with their own rules. READ MORE >>
