亚马逊推出针对iPhone和iPod touch的MP3网上商店，意在抢占苹果份额 科技博客THE NEXT WEB

    互联网零售商亚马逊（Amazon）表示，已开发出自有MP3商店，能在苹果（Apple）的Safari移动浏览器上无缝运行，还将提供个性化推荐、畅销音乐排行榜以及亚马逊评分等功能。

    用户购买MP3时，歌曲将自动转移至其亚马逊云播放器账户中（该账户拥有5GB免费存储空间），可以通过云播放器移动应用程序重新播放。这个程序适用于iPhone、iPod touch、iPad、Kindle Fire、Android智能手机和平板、Roku、Sonos系统，或任何网络浏览器。

    谷歌掌门人：高精尖技术缘何至关重要 《连线》杂志

    《连线》：现在你设立了一个名叫 Google X 的独立部门，专门研发无人驾驶汽车等高精尖技术。为什么决定设立这样一个独立的完整部门？

    佩奇：对整个业务而言，我认为我们需要做一些突破性的，但又不能立竿见影的事情。而现在 Google X 做所的事情能够更加独立。

    我们常常进行这样的探讨：我们有这么多资金，这么多人才，为什么我们不做更多的事情？你可能会说 ，苹果的产品线非常非常少，但该公司过得可好啦。但是我不满意，我觉得我们有大把大把的机会，可以开发出更多、更好的技术让全世界人民生活得更幸福。在这么多机会中，谷歌可能只是瞄准了其中的 0.1%。不过。可能所有科技公司加起来也只有1%。这意味着还有 99% 的领域完全是空白。投资者们总是忧心忡忡：“啊！你们砸了那么多冤枉钱在这些疯狂的产品上！”但这些产品正是他们如今所疯狂追逐的YouTube、Chrome和Android。如果你做的事情不疯狂，那你肯定没找对事。

    SurveyMonkey为什么推迟首次公开募股 《财富》杂志

    “我创建的第一家公司就上市了，我也曾经在雅虎（Yahoo）工作了七年。我无数次看到，大量公司决策是为了影响公司当时的股价而做出的，”戈德伯格说。戈德伯格是硅谷最优秀（也是最受欢迎的）的互联网公司高管之一。他还近距离见证了去年最混乱的IPO，也就是Facebook公开上市。戈德伯格的太太、谢丽尔•桑德博格正是Facebook的首席运营官。Facebook股价如今仍然跌破发行价。“公开上市的原因太多了，” 戈德伯格说，比如企业成长资金、品牌认知度以及在企业客户中的信誉等等。“不过，这些原因对我们都不适用。”

    Amazon looks to reduce Apple's hold on music sales with launch of MP3 web store for iPhone and iPod touch [THE NEXT WEB]

    The online retailer says that it has developed its MP3 store to operate seamlessly on Apple's Safari mobile browser, offering personalised recommendations, bestseller lists and Amazon ratings.

    When a user makes a purchase, it is automatically transferred to their Amazon Cloud Player account (which holds 5GB of free storage) and can be played back using the Cloud Player mobile apps, which are available on the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Kindle Fire, Android smartphone or tablet, Roku, Sonos system, or any web browser.

    Google's Larry Page on why moon shots matter [WIRED]

    Wired: Now you have a separate division called Google X, dedicated to moon-shot projects like self-driving cars. Why did you decide you needed to set up an entire department for this?

    Page: I think we need to be doing breakthrough, non-incremental things across our whole business. But right now Google X does things that can be done more independently.

    You know, we always have these debates: We have all this money, we have all these people, why aren't we doing more stuff? You may say that Apple only does a very, very small number of things, and that's working pretty well for them. But I find that unsatisfying. I feel like there are all these opportunities in the world to use technology to make people's lives better. At Google we're attacking maybe 0.1 percent of that space. And all the tech companies combined are only at like 1 percent. That means there's 99 percent virgin territory. Investors always worry, "Oh, you guys are going to spend too much money on these crazy things." But those are now the things they're most excited about—YouTube, Chrome, Android. If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things.

    Why SurveyMonkey is holding off on an IPO [FORTUNE]

    "I took my first company public and worked at Yahoo (YHOO) for seven years, and I saw plenty of decisions made because of what it would do to the stock price that week," he says. One of Silicon Valley's best networked (and well liked) executives, Goldberg also witnessed up close last year's most tumultuous IPO, the still-underwater debut of Facebook (FB), where his wife, Sheryl Sandberg, is chief operating officer. "There are lots of good reasons for going public," says Goldberg, ticking off growth capital, brand recognition and credibility with business customers as chief examples. "We just don't have any of them."

    业内人士炮轰Facebook图表搜索功能 科技写手史蒂夫的博客

    事实上，用户对兴趣和场所的社交互动与查询意图之间的联系要比Facebook宣称的小得多。

    计算机体系结构中，过时的数据内容被称为是“肮脏的”。访问肮脏数据浪费时间，而且弊大于利。在这种情况下，组成图表搜索的大部分结构化数据正是完全不相干、而且肮脏的数据。

    事实证明，Facebook中包含的对象和兴趣之间的联系有一半是肮脏的，即“赞”与对象之间没有真正的联系，或者说这种联系已经过时。这些数据是否真正代表用户意图根本无关紧要，重要的是，用户对自己“赞”的东西根本不感冒。（财富中文网）

    译者：项航

    Facebook Graph Search's dirty promise and the con of the Facebook "Like" [STEVE'S BLOG]

    The truth however is that the link between query intent and your social interactions for interests and places is much weaker than FB wants you to believe.

    In computer architecture they call an out of date piece of data "dirty". Accessing dirty data is bad, wasting time and causing more harm than good. And in this context, much of the structured data that makes up Graph Search is just that:totally irrelevant and dirty.

    It turns out as much as half of the links between objects and interests contained in FB are dirty—i.e. there is no true affinity between the like and the object or it's stale. Never mind does the data not really represent user intent... but the user did not even 'like' what she was liking.