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Category Archives: mobile
Jakob Nielsen: Kindle Content Must be Kindle-Specific
Jakob Nielsen offers an in-depth look at Kindle formatting best practices: For Kindle, it’s certainly unacceptable to simply repurpose print content. But you can’t repurpose website content, either. For… Continue reading
Posted in Devices, Tools, Uncategorized, amazon, digitalcontent, ebooks, formatting, kindle, kindle2, mobile, usability
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Four short links: 13 Mar 2009
Museums, Labs, Businesses, and Hash–all in today’s four short links: Shelley Bernstein Talks About the Brooklyn Museum at the National Library of New Zealand (Paul Reynolds) — I’ve written about Shelley’s work before. Brooklyn [Museum] is not about using social media as just another marketing and visitor experience tool-set. Rather, as Bernstein said last night, Brooklyn Museum itself is now… Continue reading
Posted in Google, Uncategorized, copyright, mobile, opensource, privacy, socialweb
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Kindle Comes to the iPhone
Users of the iPhone and iPod Touch can now tap into Amazon’s Kindle store with the free Kindle for iPhone application. From The New York Times: The move comes a… Continue reading
Posted in Devices, Iphone, Publishing News, Uncategorized, amazon, ebooks, ereaders, kindle, mobile
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The Fastest-Growing Category in the iTunes App Store: Books
At least as measured in terms of number of unique applications, Books have grown the fastest over the last 12 weeks. (Data for this post limited to apps on the U.S. iTunes store through 3/1/2009.) Granted releasing an e-book for the iPhone is a lot easier than writing a gaming application using the iPhone SDK. Roughly 6 out 10 of… Continue reading
Posted in Iphone, Uncategorized, mobile, platform
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Four short links: 19 Feb 2009
Art, astronomy and more fun for you in today’s four short links: Found in Space — there’s an astronomy bot on Flickr that identifies stars in the night sky, and from the unique positions of the stars figures out what bit of the night sky is looked at and then adds notes for interesting parts of the sky visible in… Continue reading
Posted in Education, Science, Twitter, Uncategorized, art, computervision, flickr, mobile
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The “O’Reilly Bump” and Bookworm
During his TOC Keynote, Tim O’Reilly talked about how the status he confers through “retweets” on Twitter are really just another form of publishing, not much different from the status… Continue reading
Posted in Recommended Reading, Tools, Uncategorized, bookworm, ebooks, mobile
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ETech Preview: Living the Technomadic Life
One of the themes at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference this March is nomadism, and no one is a better example of a technomad than Chris Dunphy and Cherie Ve Ard. Traveling around the country in a custom 17′ trailer towed by a Diesel Jeep Liberty, they manage to run a consulting firm while satisfying their desire to see new places and meet new people. We took a few minutes to talk to them about what it takes technologically to make it work, and what a life on the road is life. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, greentech, mobile, technomads
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Safari Books Online Goes Mobile
Like much of the publishing world, I’m eager to hear about Amazon’s latest version of the Kindle. But that’s not the only news today. I’m sitting here at TOC and talking to John Chodacki from Safari Books Online and, with a smile on his face, he’s showing me beta version of m.safaribooksonline.com. The smile is well deserved. It looks great, it’s fast, and I love the stripped-down navigation and lack of clutter. Continue reading
Posted in Devices, Publishing News, TOC Conference, Uncategorized, digitalbooks, ebooks, mobile, mobilecontent, safari, toc, toc09, tocconference
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Computerworld: The Coming Ebook Revolution
Last week I linked to a phenomenal piece over on ArsTechnica on the future of digital books (and in the process neglected to thank Peter Brantley for the link). Today… Continue reading
Posted in Devices, Uncategorized, business, ebooks, mobile, youth
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Google Opens Mobile Access to Public-Domain Books
Via a Google press release, word that visiting books.google.com/m provides mobile access to 1.5 million public-domain books from within Google Book Search: Today, we’re making it possible for anyone… Continue reading
Posted in Devices, Google, Iphone, Publishing News, Software, Uncategorized, applications, ebooks, googlebooksearch, marketing, mobile
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