One of the coolest things about the Kindle is that it keeps your content in sync via the Amazon Whispersync service. So you can skip between your kindle, the iPhone app or even the Cloud Reader in your web browser and stay on the same page in your reading material. Amazon takes care of all [...]
What I’m reading and finding for September 27th 2011 through October 1st 2011: Eastman Kodak Mulls Bankruptcy – NYTimes.com- dealbook.nytimes.com – By ANDREW MARTIN and MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED The troubled camera company has hired law firm Jones Day to assist on a possible restructuring. Amazon has Palm in its shopping cart — will [...]
What I’m reading and finding for August 28th 2011 through August 31st 2011: “Respect Explorer’s Heritage” | TechCrunch- techcrunch.com – MG Siegler When photos started circulating yesterday of the new interface for Windows Explorer in Windows 8, I was sure they were a joke. Surely, this was an Onion mock-up. Or maybe they were from [...]
Here is the letter that Amazon sent to affiliates tonight:
What I’m reading and finding for June 23rd 2011 through June 24th 2011: From Twitter – RT @zenchaos Google kills Google PowerMeter, here is how to export your data http://bit.ly/kwye3G From Twitter – RT @peasap Why JK Rowling’s Pottermore will frighten traditional publishers and rightly so http://t.co/YMwDLUH Evan Williams | evhead: Five Reasons Domains Are [...]
What I’m reading and finding for June 1st 2011 through June 4th 2011: Groupon Is a Straight-Up Ponzi Scheme | Groupon IPO| Knewton Blog – knewton.com – Jose Ferreira I would love to be wrong about this. Especially given the fallout in the tech economy if Groupon blows up. But isn’t it really pretty obvious [...]
What I’m reading and finding for May 27th 2011 through May 28th 2011: In Censorship Move, Iran Plans Its Own, Private Internet – WSJ.c… – online.wsj.com Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship: a so-called n… Urban Outrage | Regretsy – regretsy.com – Helen Killer By now you have probably [...]
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for February 26th 2010 through March 2nd 2010: Phishing Returns to Twitter Via Direct Message [WARNING] – mashable.com Another wave of Twitter phishing has erupted this afternoon, with a spat of direct messages that read “somebody wrote something about you in this blog here” with a link [...]
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for February 1st 2010 All The Many Ways Amazon So Very Failed the Weekend « Whatever – whatever.scalzi.com Leaving aside the moral, philosophical, cultural and financial implications of this weekend’s Amazon/Macmillan slapfight and What It All Means for book readers and the future of the publishing industry, [...]
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for January 12th 2010 Police fight cellphone recordings – The Boston Globe – boston.com cc_chapman: RT @newmediajim: Boston police arresting citizen media who sho shoot video of arrests in public http://is.gd/68g9R From Twitter – RT @DowntownRob How to Secure Your Facebook Profile Now That They Don’t Care [...]