While most thought the biggest news out of Amazon’s e-book business this week was the revelation that e-books now eclipse print books, it was actually the launch of the company’s second genre imprint in the span of two weeks (and fifth imprint overall) that’s the bigger deal. Why? Because by creating its own imprints, Amazon is essentially collapsing...
Whether you meet with colleagues in person or from remote locations, there’s still a need to keep an accurate record of what was discussed and what next actions are required. You could go the old school, pen-and-paper route, but those notes will still need to be typed up and shared with colleagues. To simply...
This photo comes from the blog Motherboard, which claims that it was sent by a former Flip employee. This doesn’t mean that Cisco was disposing of unsold Flip cams in masses by throwing them away — it’s possible that a disappointed employee was told to clear his or her desk off and decided to...
Google is on a mission to make the Web faster. One thing that slows down pageload times are fat image files. Even JPEG and PNG files can get pretty big. So Google is developing a new image format called WebP (which is a sister format to its WebM project for videos). The key to...
If you’ve seen George Clooney and Jason Reitman’s Up In The Air, you know that George Clooney’s character in the film is the epitome of a savvy, frequent flier. His life’s ambition is to accumulate miles, and he knows exactly what his rewards packages entail. Most of us, though we may similarly heavy travel...
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As part of a “social media summit” this week, the BBC posted an overview of how its user-generated content desk handles reports from the field — verifying and curating them in much the same way that Andy Carvin of NPR has been doing for the past few months during the upheaval in the Middle...
The Internet radio space is crowded with sites like Pandora, Rdio and Slacker and more join the fray every day. The formula is a simple one: get blanket licensing to play songs in a similar way to terrestrial radio and plug in some ads for detergent or whatever product the music demographic seems to...
Firefox beta for Android has been updated today with the ability for users to turn on the “Do Not Track” privacy feature, making it one of the first mobile browsers to offer the privacy option. Mozilla’s Do Not Track allows users to have more control over how their browsing behavior is tracked and used...
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