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1. AT&T收购时代华纳的消息公布后，又开始有人出来说如何证明了“渠道为王”。记得17年前时代华纳宣布与AOL宣布合并的时候，也有人这么说。后来呢？王死了不只一回，妾依然子孙满堂。如果明天迪斯尼收购了Hulu，是不是又会有人出来说你看还是内容为王吧。老琢磨谁称王，太老套。2.过去传媒娱乐产业里一个永恒的话题是渠道vs内容。这十年我们看到的一个大趋势就是渠道越来越丰富融合，内容越来越立体长效。今天，渠道和内容已经不再是“vs”的零和对战关系，而是彼此相“x”的互相增强和互相引爆的关系。行业的主旨话题也正在从“渠道vs内容”变成“技术x媒体”。你关注渠道和内容到底谁是王者，必然会在意分饼的那一刀怎么切。如果你关注的是技术如何改变媒体，必然会更在意如何把饼摊大。前者假设零和强调非此即彼，后者谋求破界信仰无缝融合。3.表面看渠道收购内容的案例比内容收购渠道的案例要多，那是因为渠道前期投入的钱多，社会属性更强，因此更有可能把规模做大；而内容则往往耗费的是少数天才和艺术家的脑细胞和青春岁月，供给有限，因此我们看到一个有趣的现象是：虽然渠道方往往比内容方个头大肌肉多，但具体到任何一个优质项目上都是牛逼的内容方趾高气昂。4.这17年来真正的变化只有两个，一个是技术和基础设施进步，一个是内容民主化。在AOL如日中天的时代，PC上看短视频都卡得要命，因此时代华纳的内容金矿对AOL来说好比VR ...继续阅读 (12)

奇迹：文明（Civilization）建设条件：使用伟人大设计师席德·梅尔获得解锁条件：桌游（Board Game） 策略游戏（Strategy Game）奇迹引言：“游戏就是一连串有趣的选择。”——席德·梅尔“其实我不应该像之前这么断言。”——还是席德·梅尔■罗马建城后870年8月（AUC 870，公元117年）被后世称作“五贤帝”第二位的罗马皇帝图拉真在塞利努斯城的罗马式浴场中永远地闭上眼睛时，他所想的事情是，他还没有回到罗马。塞利努斯城位于小亚细亚，正是他从美索不达米亚和亚述行省回师返回罗马的半道上。从波斯湾到这里，已经经过了半个世界；从这里到罗马，还要经过另外半个世界的距离。他的侄子哈德良性格多变，真伪难分，他担心将这个庞大的帝国交给他，会造成伟大帝国的混乱，更会放弃他辛苦战胜帕提亚人得来的两个新行省。在这担心之中，64岁的老皇帝慢慢地咽下了最后一口气。他不会想到死后另外一个世界是怎样的。出自漫画《罗马浴场》。漫画中这个皇帝其实并不是图拉真，而是图拉真的侄子皇帝，后来被称为五贤帝第三位的哈德良……他确实放弃了美索不达米亚和亚述行省当图拉真大帝再次醒来的时候，在他眼前出现的，是一片充满虚空黑暗的大地，和两队一无所有的罗马人。其中一队罗马人身披兽皮，手执木棒，仿佛罗马建城以前的蛮荒时代一般的打扮；另一队人牵着驴子，拖家带口，男女老幼均有，正在沿河采集狩猎。伟大的图拉真从河滩上爬 ...继续阅读 (9)

在这个周末，你还能抽空看这篇文章，这是非常令我感动的——在10月21日凌晨的时候，我的Steam好友列表里清一色在玩《文明6》。我猜很多人干脆周五请假，连着双休日大玩三天三夜……我在《文明5》里花费了大概八百小时，与圈内大拿相比，这个数字我都不好意思拿出来晒。在玩《文明5》的那段时间里，我的老电脑不堪重负差点烧了主板，于是我换了一台新的。然而玩到后期，游戏运行还是会变得很慢，十国大战如同幻灯片，我需要等很久很久很久，才能看到该死的武则天抢了我的奇迹。在这个时候，我会打开手机，玩上一些很简单的小游戏，提神醒脑，还能打发“再来一回合”时的等待时间。现在《文明6》出来了，我相信不是每位朋友的电脑都那么给力，十六国大战轻轻松松。所以我推荐几款我觉得还不错的游戏，作为大餐间隙的酒水甜点。■《∞：再环》（∞：loop）我在很久以前推荐过这个游戏，一年多过去了，这是我手机里唯一一个一直都没删的游戏。游戏的玩法非常简单：点击杂乱的直线、半圆形和四分之一圆形，拼接成闭合、有规律的图案。我热爱它的原因在于，这个游戏某种程度上满足了我在某些方面的轻度强迫症——就是那种喜欢把纸揉皱再抚平的无聊行为。简洁而有趣在玩《文明5》的时候，我最喜欢的事情就是开发地块，把我领地上的每一个格子都放上些什么，只要看到空白地块就不舒服，哪怕只能修路也要把它填满。虽然大部分地块都不会有产出，但我还是孜孜不倦地干着这件事，十几 ...继续阅读 (11)

It was an innocuous tweet. “Hey, have y’all played Mini Metro?”he asked. “It just got ported to mobile this week and it’s great.”Oh, no, I had not played Mini Metro. It’s$5 on the App Store. And it isamazing.Developed by Dinosaur Polo Club and available as a $10 Mac/PC download on Steam since last fall, Mini Metro is a game inspired by the classic style of Harry Beck, creator of the famous London Underground map. And now it’s available for iOS and Android.In Mini Metro, your job is to connect stations on a map—represented by circles, triangles, squares, and the occasional special shape (I like ...继续阅读 (5)

Investors seem to think Satya Nadella’s transformation is working.Microsoft’s stock price reached an all-time high today, beating a previous record set in 1999 (!) in the heat of the dot-com bubble. Shares opened this morning at $60.31 — up 5 percent from yesterday’s close — and reached $60.45 in morning trading before settling.Why is Microsoft setting share-price records in 2016?Most importantly, investors seem to think its transformation under CEO Satya Nadella — from a company that sells Windows and Office licenses (often on discs and in cardboard boxes) to a company that sells access to so ...继续阅读 (10)

换一块桌布就能让空间焕然一新，添加一副挂画就能让苍白的墙有了故事。我们每天有超过 1/3 的时间在与居住空间亲密接触，它为什么不能变成你喜欢生活的理由？第 259 期豌豆荚设计奖，我们颁给一款发现真实生活居住美学的应用——「好好住」。作品大多来自用户的分享给正在做装修功课的你一本家居画册，你可能会有些不服气：这些都是设计师的作品，普通人哪有那么多精力和审美把房子弄这样？这种欣赏家居美的渴望不只属于装修房子的人，就像有些人永远逛不腻 Muji 和宜家。在「好好住」的专题栏目里，除了晒出真实、高颜值的家，屋主还会分享设计灵感、装修成本和心得等实用干货。到评论去点赞、交流，也许就能从屋主那打听到那盏复古工业风的台灯在哪里买的。将对家居的热爱融合进产品细节你可以很快速的勾选相册里图片，配以简单的文字标签，分享家居作品像发朋友圈一样简单。搜索功能能根据标签，帮你找到其他屋主分享的同类好物。多图少文地呈现家居作品，同时配合留白、方构图、专题角标，避免多图的杂乱感，类似在 Instagram 的浏览体验。故事：居住的优化与生命等长与很多分享社交类 App 不同的是，「好好住」是先在微博、知乎、微信、豆瓣等平台上做内容，逐渐形成口碑和影响力后再搭建了产品。创始人冯驌曾是腾讯门户网站的新闻编辑，转折源于他为母亲装修房子，自己设计、选材、布置，一发不可收拾地爱上家居。如果你对家居生活充满着疑虑，在这个 ...继续阅读 (13)

Big Blue says it saves hundreds per year when employees choose a Mac.When it comes to the total cost of ownership, Macs can end up being far cheaper than PCs for businesses that use them.Just ask IBM.Big Bluereleased dataon Wednesday showing that it saves anywhere from $265 to $535 over a four-year period for each employee who uses a Mac over a PC.To understand how we are at a place where IBM even has such data, you have to know that IBM no longer makes Windows PCs. It is also Apple’s primary partner in selling devices into large business.IBM is actually Apple’s largest corporate customer, wit ...继续阅读 (10)

One of the most popular and rapidly growing YouTube channels today is a “vlogger” (video blogger) namedCasey Neistat. A big reason for that growth is Casey is a filmographer, not just any random citizen with a camera. He brought to YouTube the skills he honed while creating award winning feature films, a series for HBO, commercials for Nike, etc.So when he offers advice on how to film or edit, I take notice. But there’s one piece of advice I feel he hasn’t directly called out to his audience, but subtly has made apparent over and over again.In one episode, Casey is stuck in meetings all day an ...继续阅读 (10)

在各大视频网站的网友弹幕纷纷刷起“罗锤子又重新定义了 7:30”之后，最受争议人物罗永浩于 7:45 分左右登场，欢呼声，口哨声此起彼伏，这近乎苹果乔布斯式的开场，也只会出现在锤子科技的发布会上，基本证明了这个老罗还是那个谁也不能取代的老罗。“我总怀疑还能不能到这里见到大家”，“我来之前大概就知道你们是这个样子”，“最近一段时间我们被媒体倒闭了六次”，“虽然手机销量没有明显的上去，但我发现来到现场的人越来越多，媒体报道的人也越来越多。”一登台老罗就开呛放话，时不时还会爆出金句。理论上看，这应该是锤子科技罗永浩今年最重要的一场发布会，一来这场发布会会推出今年最重要的旗舰产品，二来罗永浩有必要对市场上的一些质疑声做出回应。而相同价值观的人会愿意在这次发布会上看到仍然在坚持的老罗，他们也希望老罗用彪悍的语气否定那些关于锤子被收购，讽刺理想主义的流言蜚语。不过坦率的说，从产品层面看这次的锤子 M1，它一点都不锤子。对比上一代旗舰 T2 来看，M1 这次补上了指纹识别，老罗还自嘲这可能是“国内最后用上指纹的产品”，要知道一年之前微博上还有锤子员工在调侃什么“指纹无用论”，这看起来像罗永浩当年判断 T1 上谁会使用 4G 频段一样无知可笑。锤子 M1 还去掉了锤子曾经坚持的三颗实体按键，要知道罗永浩也曾表示“如果不出意外，T 系列会坚持使用实体按键”。除去放弃曾经坚持的实体按键，锤子科技也开始 ...继续阅读 (9)

2016 年是网红年，在这一年，人们见到了各种各样的网红，不断冲击着人们的精神底线。然而，底线就是用来被突破的：如今，一个失意小偷也能够成为 “ 网红 ”。前几天，这个小偷出狱，受到了一些网民去现场主动 “接风 ”，还兴奋地跟他合影。图片中的主角，广西人周某或许没有想到，一桩失败的盗窃案，竟然让他莫名其妙的在网上“红”了。在他服刑期间，也从一个失意的罪犯，成了百度　“戒赌吧” 400 万会员的　“精神领袖”，被尊称为 “ 窃 · 格瓦拉” 。这一切，都来源于他因偷车入狱之前被南宁电视台拍摄的一个视频。面对镜头，周某并没有任何一点悔改之意，反而洋洋得意的谈起了自己 “ 为什么要做小偷 ” 的心路历程。“ 没有钱啊，肯定要做啊，不做的话没有钱用 ……（有手有脚为什么不去打工？） 打工是不可能打工的，这辈子都不可能打工的，做生意又不会做，只有偷才能维持住生活这样子 …… 进看守所就像回家一样，在看守所里面的感觉比家里面好多了，进里面去个个都是人才，说话又好听，超喜欢在（看守所）里面的！”2016 年 7 月，这段视频被人挖出来之后，突然在网上走红。“ XX 是不可能 XX 的，这辈子不可能XX的 ” 被改成段子。而这段不足1 分钟的视频也被鬼畜成了洗脑神曲。有人将他的经典语录记录了下来， P 成了切格瓦拉的头像，窃 · 格瓦拉由此而来。他被进一步奉为了 “ 戒赌吧 ” 400 万会员的精 ...继续阅读 (7)

The new Pixel is a classy home for the new Assistant.At long last — almost eight years to the day from whenthe first Android phonewent on sale — Google is launching a smartphone for which it designed the hardware, software and cloud ecosystem: The Pixel. No longer will the tech giant be entirely dependent on other companies to present Android in its best light, or on hardware that varied wildly but was never built from the ground up to be the best physical instantiation of pure Google Android.I wrotelast yearandlast weekabout why it makes sense for Google to become, like Apple, a vertically in ...继续阅读 (11)

The Vergeturns five on November 1st, and we’re in the process ofrefreshing our entire brand for the next five years. InRefreshingThe Verge, we’ll be looking at how that refresh process works, and what it’s like to adapt a brand likeThe Vergeto a world where media platforms have become dominant.When we launchedThe Vergein 2011, our founding team was a very small group of people who’d worked together for a long time,joining a company calledSB Nationthat had around 80 employees who’d also worked together for a long time. It was very easy for decisions to filter out to the entireVergeteam, and it ...继续阅读 (11)

A first-year birthday + big stuff launching to everyone next weekFirst, a quick birthday celebrationWe launchedBasecamp 3about a year ago. It’s been a huge hit so far — we’re closing in on half a million new company accounts, still coming at the rate of around8,000 new companies signing up a week. Basecamp 3 is growing 30% faster than Basecamp 2 was — and in a much more competitive market. What’s particularly rewarding is thatmany people are rediscovering Basecamp after having left it years ago. They’re finding a whole new world in Basecamp 3. “Woah, I didn’t know Basecamp could do that.” “You ...继续阅读 (9)

Facebook employees buzzed about Messenger’s personal assistant, known as M, when it launched inside the company and to a test group of thousands of users in California last year. Users could buy movie tickets or even order pinatas for employee birthday parties, although the work was performed mostly by people rather than a computer. The idea was that deep-learning algorithms would eventually learn enough from the requests to automate the work.Reality eventually set in. Facebook’s artificial intelligence research team initially estimated it would take tens of thousands of queries before M could ...继续阅读 (8)

Today we’re bringing you four new features for Google Photos — three new ways for you to relive and the share moments that matter, and a quick way to fix some of those pesky sideways photos in your collection.First, Google Photos will now help you rediscover old memories of the people in your most recent photos. As your photo library continues to grow, we hope that features like this one make it easier to look back at your fondest memories.image full widthSecond, we’re making it easier to look over the most recent highlights from your photos. If you take a lot of photos of your child, for exam ...继续阅读 (11)

轻芒生活是一款有着各种兴趣爱好主题的精选杂志应用，里面有家居小物、旅行、收纳、穿搭、健身、摄影、手工等等差不多 100 多个兴趣分类，相当于 100 多本杂志，其中有 13 本是轻芒团队运营。无论是为了培养一个兴趣爱好，还是仅仅看别人一步一步实现小理想，都可以让你得到满足。@Appinn记得很小的时候，有人就告诉青小蛙：你要是对什么东西感兴趣，就去看相关主题的杂志，时间久了，就什么都懂了。然后青小蛙的兴趣爱好就是各种电脑杂志，买过好多，买到…互联网来临，这些杂志都死掉了。轻芒生活默认会帮你订阅几本精选的杂志，你可以在第一次打开的以后订阅更多的杂志或者取消不感兴趣的主题，13 本精选杂志是：家居小物穿搭美妆早餐咖啡旅行健身摄影酒日本料理手工我们来看一下都有哪些内容吧比如家居小物：参观「淘物癖」和「工具控」的家：复古的同时又秩序的美感私厨厨房讲解自用的九把刀比如旅行：霓虹国购物指南翻动海水的噪音，悉尼的会客厅比如摄影：拍出抽象艺术照片的 5 个技巧人像拍摄的 7 个基本点你会发现，这些文章来源很杂，有各种各样的渠道，比如微博、公众号、网站等等，轻芒生活的编辑团队帮你筛选符合主题的内容，剩下的，你只需要像阅读杂志一样每天看看就可以了。而其他的兴趣杂志是由机器人小猫自动生成的，分类非常丰富哦（点击查看全部杂志）。而电子杂志的另外一个好处就是记录方便，青小蛙对于传统杂志最不爽的地方是如果没有 ...继续阅读 (12)

China may have a booming tech scene. But it also has a talent shortage.Take Sang Wen, a brilliant MIT Ph.D. graduate who with his partner raised more than $3 million from top-tier Silicon Valley investors for their startup. Their firm, Smarking, uses big data to help parking providers keep their lots full while at the same time minimizing waits for empty spaces. It’s a problem that China, the world’s biggest passenger car market, certainly faces. But it won’t be rolled out there anytime soon.Instead of returning to China where his American education and local connections would have practically ...继续阅读 (13)

Apple got a seat on the board of Didi Chuxing a few weeks after investing $1 billion in the company, which is known as the ‘Uber of China,’ according to a person briefed on the move. At the time, news reports about the investment quoted Didi as saying Apple hadn’t received such a seat.The board appointment occurred in late June, according to a regulatory filing. It reinforces the gravity of Apple’s investment, which influenced Uber’s decision to sell its China operations to Didi at the end of July. Didi had a large lead in market share but Uber hoped Didi wouldn’t be able to keep r ...继续阅读 (11)

Mobile phones and then smartphones have been swallowing other products for a long time - everything from clocks to cameras to music players has been turned from hardware into an app. But that process also runs in reverse sometimes - you take part of a smartphone, wrap it in plastic and sell it as a new thing. This happened first in a very simple way, with companies riding on the smartphone supply chain to create new kinds of product with the components it produced, most obviously the GoPro. Now, though, there are a few more threads to think about.First, sometimes we’re unbundling not jus ...继续阅读 (10)

Over the last ten years, Google Analytics has added many new features and reports. For the last few months, we’ve been working to build a simpler Google Analytics while still retaining the key functionality that people frequently use. The changes highlighted in this post are the first part in a series of improvements that you will see in the next few months.Below is a summary of the changes that all Google Analytics users will begin to see over the next few weeks.1. Simplified navigationA brand-new navigation using Google’sMaterial DesignstandardsRemoval of the “Home Customization Reporting Ad ...继续阅读 (11)

距离FC《超级马里奥兄弟》发售已经过去了几十年，但仍然有一群人在夜以继日地玩这个游戏。与其说是“游戏”，现在的《马里奥兄弟》越来越像是一个竞技项目，一次挑战可能性边界的机会。原文发表在Kotaku上，作者为Ethan Gach。触乐网进行了编译。2013年，《超级马里奥兄弟》的最速通关世界纪录是由andrewg1990保持的4分58秒。今年4月，记录由Darbian推进到4分57.427秒。上周，这个记录被Kosmic的4分57.244秒打破。很快，Kosmic创造了4分57.194秒的新记录。几天后，Darbian宣布，他以4分56.878的成绩夺回了《超级马里奥兄弟》世界第一人的头衔。在Darbian最近的直播里，你可以在屏幕左下方看到他的心率。游戏快结束时，他的心率会由平时的83翻倍至161。这个三十年前发售的老游戏就是能给玩家带来如此不可思议的压力。对大多数挑战者来说，《超级马里奥兄弟》与其说是游戏，更像是一个挑战可能性边界的机会。“快到终点时的感觉实在是太棒了。如果你破了纪录，你会感觉出来的。”Darbian告诉我，“正是这些瞬间让通关竞速独一无二。你能够看到自己的艰苦付出获得回报。”今年四月的《超级马里奥兄弟》世界纪录比旧纪录快半秒，而Darbian花了三年时间才做到这一点。仅仅一周后，Kosmic就跑出了非常接近Darbian的成绩。其中的奥妙在于名叫“Sockfol ...继续阅读 (9)

My friend Sly has been a lifelong fan of Bruce Springsteen. I’m so happy for her to have been able to meet him, even if for only a few brief moments. Read this story and ask yourself, what hero/idol would you like to meet? Or do you believe it’s true you shouldn’t meet your idols? I’m very glad Sly met hers.∞ Read this on The LoopSource:http://ift.tt/2dH02NR ...继续阅读 (14)

In another episode of “Stop it tech, you’re drunk,” Apple accessory company Twelve South has releaseda candlethat smells like a freshly unboxed Mac. For just $24, you can enjoy a hand-poured, 100 percent soy wax candle with scents of mint, peach, basil, lavender, mandarin, and sage. I’m not sure how all that equates to the smell of a new Mac, but enough people have been hyped about this candle for it to sell out on the website.Honestly, I can’t remember what my Macbook Air smelled like the first time I unboxed it. Perhaps it was a mixture of excitement and vague a ...继续阅读 (11)

I started working actively on K12 education about five years ago when a few of us helped startThe Academy For Software Engineering. Early on in that process, I made it a point to visit about a dozen high schools around NYC and talk to the Principals and teachers in those schools. I was curious about a lot of things, mostly how you make a good school (answer is hire a great Principal), but also what kind of tech infrastructure was in the schools.On the latter point, I learned that most schools had broadband and wifi, but the implementation was often poor and in need of significant upgrade. The ...继续阅读 (10)

Intelligent, integrated hardware and software are powerful weapons.Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary andreviews column on The VergeandRecodeby veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, executive editor at The Verge and editor at large ofRecode.Google’s decision to become a full-fledged, vertically integrated device maker — controlling and blending together hardware, software and ecosystem design — may one day seem inevitable, obvious or even a little late. But in the short and medium term, it’s a huge, bold move that will pose new challenges for the other major players in the tech industry ...继续阅读 (12)

John Gruber isnot impressedby the suggestion that Google’s new Pixel phone, which the company introduced at akeynoteyesterday, is the first time the company has competed head-to-head with the iPhone:Google has been going head-to-head against the iPhone ever since the first Android phone debuted. You can’t say the Nexus phones don’t count just because they never succeeded.Google then-VP of engineering Vic Gundotradevoted his 2010 I/O keynoteto ripping into the iPhone and iPad, pedal to the metal on “open beats closed” and how an ecosystem of over 60 different Android devices (a drop in the pond ...继续阅读 (12)

For years now, consumer virtual reality has been pitched as an exotic, futuristic creation; it’s one of those products that seems created to fulfill the tech industry’s sci-fi fantasies. But permanent novelty can only stay exciting for so long. So when Googleannounced its Daydream programearlier this year, it promised VR that feltnormal. Daydream is an extension of your Android phone’s existing interface, coupled with headsets that are supposed to feel as comfortable as a pair of nice running shoes, the first of whichwas announced today. But Google doesn’t just want to make a piece ...继续阅读 (10)

Google’s motto for its latest line of phones—the Pixels unveiled on Tuesday—may be “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again.”The Pixels are the first phones carrying only the Google brand, as opposed to Nexus phones that were co-branded with Google and a manufacturing partner like Huawei. But the new phones—the first to be designed solely by Google—follow numerous other unsuccessful stabs at phones going back to 2010. Aside from the Nexus line, there was Google’s two-year effort at owning smartphone maker Motorola Mobility, now part of Lenovo.Source:http://ift.tt/2dQmhNf ...继续阅读 (11)

Apple is moving its UK headquarters to Battersea power station — an iconic building in South West London in the middle of a $10 billion regeneration project. The iPhone-maker will be moving into the former boiler house in what was previously a functioning coal-fired power station, decommissioned in 1983. A Malaysian consortium of companies is currently renovating the massive building into a range of offices, shops, and luxury flats.The decision has been greeted with enthusiasm by the UK government, as a vote of confidence in London after the political and economic fallout of Brexit. The deal i ...继续阅读 (10)