Did you watch the talk? The reason why handbags, for example, are plastered with Gucci logos is exactly because only the logo is protected, but not the design of the handbag itself.

Sounds like you would enjoy this version of 2001 ...

Human nature. It's a tiny and precious object, so we want to protect it. Doesn't mean that it needs the protection, but it's perceived as being fragile.

Hmm. That made me think of Songlines.

Just "amazon". Yes, that would work. My guess is that this is what at least some of the bigger multi-national corporations - like Amazon, but maybe also Apple and Google - are actually going to do.

Agreed. But the other question in this case is: Where do you draw the line? If you copy 100 details from your competitor, you are effectively plagiarizing their product.

Actually, Apple writes quite a few things that make me (and I'm a Mac user) cringe. For example:

Yeah, when you download a file and click on it, a dialog pops up that tells you that the file was downloaded from the internet and may be dangerous. That's all. And after you had to click on that a couple of times for harmless files of all sorts, you just click on it automatically. And, boom, trojan infection ...

+1 on the 10-20-30 rule.

-1 on Prezi. Don't get hung up on certain tools. It's the content that counts and especially what your audience wants to hear (why are they there? what could they learn from your talk that's relevant for them?)

Tempting as it may be to use Prezi to zoom around an overview of your network - refrain from it. I've seen people report that they actually got seasick watching all the zooming in and out in Prezi. "Pizzazz" is no replacement for content and relevance.

Download is something that the uploader of the slides has to allow. And even then you need to be logged in to their site. FWIW, all my slide decks on slideshare are available for download.

I looked at the data that my iPad collected. It's only data from the few occassions when I used 3G. If it would also collect information from WiFi, it would have recorded that, say, I was in Canada where I used the hotel WiFi but not 3G. But no location information was recorded there. As others have already pointed out, it's only recording information about the 3G cell towers that the iDevice sees.

Hmm. The conclusion I would draw from this is that we don't seem to be very good at doing things properly, at least not in the long run. So maybe it isn't such a good idea to rely on things being done properly when it involves very dangerous stuff like radioactivity.

Apparently not. Even Tim Bray had to solve logic puzzles (and failed one):

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google

You mean "like eMusic did", unfortunately. They changed it recently - you are no longer able to re-download things.

Try going to one of those albums from your list. Notice how the button above the album now reads "re-purchase album".

Nokia didn't invent Symbian, but it was their decision to use it. Back in the late 1990's, I was involved in a "top secret" project between Nokia and Psion, to bring Psion's EPOC operating system to a Nokia phone which was going to be the successor of the 9110 Communicator. The announcement of Symbian a few months later came as a complete surprise to us: "Oh, that's what we've been working on all the time?"

I still think it made a lot of sense back then. They just lost contact with the market (or maybe reality in general, as you and the GP implied) in the mid-2000's.