Monthly Archives: September 2011
Gruber Sees The First Step
Kindle Fire Last year Amazon tried something new, with an option to pay less for a Kindle that displays “special offers”. They’re ads, but they never interrupt reading — they’re only shown on the home screen and screensaver. Today, they’ve … Continue reading
Filed under Amazon Kindle
The Comic Book Conundrum
Today's Kindle announcement just reinforces we have to stop making comics formatted for legacy printing. tinyurl.com/3vbp35p— John Rogers (@jonrog1) September 28, 2011 And which screen size? 3.8″ LCD (smartphone)? 6″ eInk? 7″ LCD? 8.9″ LCD? 10″ LCD? Additional: ComiXology + … Continue reading
Filed under Digital Overthrow, Digital Periodicals, eBooks: Screens
It Always Seems So Innocent
Smoke This Book The story of paperback advertising started innocently enough… Previously here: Amazon’s Kindle Price Punking
Filed under Amazon Kindle, Marketing, Pottersville
Amazon Silk: The Other Nightmare
Not really liking this Amazon Silk idea. Open to manipulating web pages.— Mike Cane (@mikecane) September 28, 2011 Amazon Silk! I'm hearing The Outer Limits Control Voice: "We will control what you see and hear…"— Mike Cane (@mikecane) September 28, … Continue reading
Filed under Amazon Kindle, Socialtech
Amazon’s Kindle Price Punking
All you’ll hear is “$79 Kindle!” “$99 Kindle!” I believed it too. Jeff Bezos punked all of us. Here’s a key slide from the announcement: Source What’s missing in that list?
Filed under Amazon Kindle
In Twitter Jail
Click = big Such irony! All the spammers seem to have left Twitter for the goldmine of New Facebook — and I wind up in Twitter Jail! Today was the Amazon announcement. I was exchanging tweets with up to ten … Continue reading
Filed under Socialtech, Stupid
WTF Tizen!?
Welcome to Tizen! MeeGo is dead: Meet Tizen, another new open source OS based on Linux “Tizen” is Intel and Samsung’s answer to Android Tiswas I don’t understand this at all!
Impressive Rooted Nook Touch Video
Somehow this one has been sitting on YouTube for a week and I missed it! This is just a quick video of me using a rooted Nook Simple Touch for 6 minutes. I show off the Amazon Kindle app, the … Continue reading
Filed under B&N Nook Touch Rooting, Video
