Rekord für organische Photovoltaik ()
Eine Verzwanzigfachung der Produktion bietet bestimmt jede Menge neue Herausforderungen.
Mit einem den organischen Leuchtdioden entlehnten Verfahren produziert ein Dresdner Start-up Solarfolien, die flexibel und haltbar sein sollen.
…Die Zelle lässt sich transparent und mit verschiedenen Farbtönen – Grün, Blau, Grau – produzieren. Undurchsichtig hat sie einen Wirkungsgrad von zwölf Prozent. Wird sie mit einer Lichtdurchlässigkeit von 40 Prozent hergestellt, sinkt er entsprechend auf 7,2 Prozent.
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In den letzten zwei Jahren hat Heliatek eine Pilotanlage für 50.000 Quadratmeter pro Jahr aufgebaut. Jetzt sucht die Firma nach Geldgebern für eine Fabrik, die eine Million Quadratmeter herstellen kann. Das entspricht 100 Megawatt.
Heise: Rekord für organische Photovoltaik
Why the Indie Web movement is so important ()
While i agree with Gillmor in general, unfortunately WordPress Jetpack (mentioned by Gillmor), requires a WordPress.com account to work and hence is IMHO a bad example for the indie web.
We’re in danger of losing what’s made the Internet the most important medium in history – a decentralized platform where the people at the edges of the networks – that would be you and me – don’t need permission to communicate, create and innovate.
Dan Gillmor: Why the Indie Web movement is so important:
Via: Inessential
Not sure if there are a lot of domains where a 1000-fold increase in a timespan of 9 years is even possible. Especially when the price remains basically the same.
Via: parislemon
The secrets of the world’s happiest cities ()
From November 2013, but quite a coincidence: I repaired my bike yesterday and am starting to bike to work today.
In the third year of his term, Peñalosa challenged Bogotáns to participate in an experiment. As of dawn on 24 February 2000, cars were banned from streets for the day. It was the first day in four years that nobody was killed in traffic. Hospital admissions fell by almost a third. The toxic haze over the city thinned. People told pollsters that they were more optimistic about city life than they had been in years.
Charles Montgomery: The secrets of the world’s happiest cities
Via: parislemon
Spiegelt ziemlich genau unsere Erfahrungen wieder. Keine Ahnung ob es am darunter liegenden Constraint-System liegt, das global statt lokal optimiert und plötzlich zu einer ganz anderen Lösung springt.
The thing about auto layout, though, is that when things go wrong they go wildly wrong. I think that’s the issue for me. With old-fashioned layout code, things go wrong by just a little bit — and I can figure out, and fix, the problem pretty quickly.
But with auto layout, when things go wrong, it looks like a bomb went off.
Brent Simmons: Green Rocks from Space
Uber, Airbnb vs Cartels and Regulators ()
On a side note, i was surprised, that Neelie Kroes, in the discussion that followed her tweet (see below) revealed that she didn’t know about MyTaxi.
In Brussels, on April 15th, a court order issued a straightforward ban of application-powered car services such as Uber, triggering the anger of the European commissioner for digital policies Neelie Kroes (see also her adamant blog post):
I’m absolutely outraged at decision of a court in #Brussels to ban @Uber + issue drivers €10,000 fines for each pick-up. Cartel! More coming
— Neelie Kroes (@NeelieKroesEU) April 15, 2014
As for the socialist French MP, while his report leans only softly in favor of the old-fashion cab system that no French government wants to upset, its own website clearly expresses his personal bias again what he calls “Uber’s Cow-boy behavior” (always the long-standing cliché) and the fact that Google is behind the service.
Frederic Filloux: Uber, Airbnb vs Cartels and Regulators
Marvel Comics Developer API ()
Yes, that’s what I said: a developer API for seventy years’ worth of Marvel Comics content. You can now write your own application and make use of Marvel’s countless characters, creators, series, even story arcs. What a remarkable gift this is to kids (of all ages) with plenty of time on their hands and the…
Khoi Vinh: Marvel Comics Developer API
Reuters: Apple, Google Agree to Pay Over $300 Million to Settle No-Poaching Conspiracy Lawsuit ()
Four major tech companies including Apple and Google have agreed to pay a total of $324 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them
of conspiring to hold down salaries in Silicon Valley, sources familiar with the deal said, just weeks before a high profile trial had been scheduled to begin.Dan Levine: Reuters: Apple, Google Agree to Pay Over $300 Million to Settle No-Poaching Conspiracy Lawsuit
Via: daringfireball
According to two sources, Google has apparently been reshuffling the teams that used to form the core of Google+, a group numbering between 1,000 and 1,200 employees. … Basically, talent will be shifting away from the Google+ kingdom and towards Android as a platform, we’re hearing.
Alexia Tsotsis and Matthew Panzarino: Google+ Is Walking Dead
Via marco.org