Daily Archives: April 20, 2011
Apple Reports No eBook Growth
Apple Shares Up, Huge iPhone And Mac Sales Overshadow Weak iPad 5:08 iTunes revenue $1.4 billion thanks to music, apps, books, etc. 2,500 publishers in over 20 categories on iBooks store, 100 million books. Wait. What?
Filed under Apple: The Company, eBooks: General
eBooks: It’s Betamax Versus VHS All Over Again
The Wikipedia long version: Videotape format war The shorter to the point version: The Betamax vs VHS Format War The victory was not due to any technical superiority (Betamax is arguably a better format) … And so it has been … Continue reading
Filed under Amazon Kindle, Apple: The Company, Sony Reader
YahooMail UnFriends Opera
Nine out of ten times after I hit Send on a YahooMail email, Opera crashes. I have had ten such crashes today. It used to be Opera would crash with YouTube being opened for a while. That’s mainly fixed. But … Continue reading
Filed under Personal
Bailing On Twitter: Timing!
Twitter deals with noisy users by hiding tweets Wow. That is really going to screw up fast-paced conversations on Twitter and scheduled conferences such as Follow The Reader, eProduction, and The ISBN Hour. It’d also kill the multi-tweet rants I … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
If It’s Mobile, It’s Not Private
Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves Yet according to Comments there, this is not news. What I found interesting in the Comments was a link to a presentation about webOS.
“Winning” Before It Was Polluted By You Know Who
How You Win Winning is not random, fast, or glorious. It is slow, cumulative, and almost sneaks up on you. In some respects it just comes down to showing up and sticking around.
Filed under Uncategorized
Another Sleeper Awakens
Physical Media Has To Go. I’m Digital Only From Here. Moving across town last summer was a real eye opener in terms of seeing how tied we still are to physical things. Beyond all our sundry items needed to survive, … Continue reading
Filed under Digital Overthrow
