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Oct 27 (4) This study by Jacob Goldenberg and Moshe Levy looks at the effect of the digital revolution on the geographical distribution of our social networks. They studied 100,000 Facebook and email users and mapped the volume of communication against geographic distance. It turns out that we predominantly use these digital tools to talk to our geographically close friends.
Oct 08 (0)
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 Jul 26 (0) IBM are spending $100 million over the next five years researching mobile internet and mobile usage. "the number of mobile users will grow by 191% from 2006 to 2011 to reach roughly one billion users" a lot of the research is looking at how to use mobile in developing countries and within enterprise situations. Jun 27 (0) Interesting post from econsultancy and Nielsen calling on websites to create mobile versions. Digital companies ignore this at their peril. http://econsultancy.com/blog/3311-nielsen-websites-need-mobile-versions |
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