Categoria: 01 – Curiosidades na Internet

Popular US retailer Best Buy is currently selling the well-received ZombiU for the cheap price of $14.99. ZombiU originally launched with the Wii U to mixed reviews. However, the reviews of the game on the Best Buy site are largely positive. It’s certainly worth giving the game a spin for $14.99.

Just days after a Berlin court decided Google(s goog)’s privacy policy and terms of use were too vague, the Dutch data protection authority has done much the same. In a Thursday statement, the the watchdog’s chairman, Jacob Kohnstamm, said the U.S. firm didn’t give users any option or much transparency when it comes to combining their data from different Google services: “Google spins an invisible web of our personal data, without our consent. And that is forbidden by law.” The company will now need to attend a hearing, after which the privacy regulator will decide whether to take enforcement measures.

One of the biggest innovations to happen in the startup world in the last decade is the Lean Startup movement, coined by Eric Ries.  Ries and the thousands of lean startup fans that follow him advocate staying lean too, as Wikipedia puts it:

…eliminate wasteful practices and increase value producing practices during the product development phase so that startups can have a better chance of success without requiring large amounts of outside funding, elaborate business plans, or the perfect product.

Staying lean is great for startups that haven’t achieved product-market fit or for startups that are targeting markets that they believe to be small.  In addition, many startups (especially outside of the Bay Area) have to stay “lean” out of necessity, since fundraising isn’t nearly as easy as it is here.  Finally, some entrepreneurs want to stay small to retain control of the vision, which is awesome.

However, I…