By
Tunde Cockshott, on June 18th, 2010
Now things are getting interesting. Time has released a video demo of their latest demo of a future tablet magazine. There is a Time app on the iPad but it is not very inspiring – this however is much richer and has some nice UI touches and unique gestures.
But the production of this sort of rich content will be expensive to produce, and the tools needed to deliver this form of new media have yet to be developed. How they intend to do this is not clear, but there is clearly an opportunity to develop a DTP tool for tablet magazine creation. The format is evolving and it is interesting to watch, and more interesting to play a part in its development.
Well worth a look: View on Youtube
By
James Huckle, on October 19th, 2009
In another illustration of the divergent/convergent device debate, Social Media has split into the hand-held domain in the form of the WikiReader which claims to enable you to take-away perhaps the widest used invention of social media, WikiPedia.
The $99 device prunes the 1 TB of WikiPedia derived content into articles that fit onto a single 4GB SD card.
Although many may buy and use this device and an obvious saving in capacity will be the removal of images and other redundant features such as links, this begs several questions such as where is the rest of the content, who has decided what stays and what goes?
By
Tunde Cockshott, on October 8th, 2009
Amazon has just announced that Kindle is going global – or at least it will be sold in 100 countries, arriving in UK on 19th October. Sony has just released the second generation of its ereader. At the same time Apple is rumored to be in talks with publishers about selling books through iTunes with enhanced functionality and content. These would be available via their much hyper tablet device. So it appears that ebooks may be finally ready for mainstream adoption.
The question is what advantages do ebooks really offer? If Apple is to offer enhanced content and functionality, what will be the killer features which will make enough of us abandon paper in favor of digital?
So far the Kindle and other ereaders have offered, portability, mass storage, long battery life (but not as long as that of a traditional book), book marking,
Continue reading The age of Book 2.0
By
Andrew Dean, on September 24th, 2009
By combining number plate recognition software and interactive billboard technology Castrol have come up with the ultimate personalised advertising to sell their products.
By
admin, on August 16th, 2009
By
Tunde Cockshott, on July 12th, 2009
Microsoft have created some real magic with their demo of Natal
