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A comment on Scoble’s “JPG Mag’s dead. Why your advertising-funded business could be next…”
Jan 5, 2009 7:15
Robert Scoble has a great post about the demise of the wonderful JPG Mag (which may not happen after all). He talks about the (advertising) value of photography and gives great advise to any ad-funded business out there. You should go read it now! It spawned a few thoughts of my own, reposted below. It [...]
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Google… But Were Afraid to Ask
Dec 12, 2008 3:03
Following my lengthy post yesterday, about Google Book Search, I thought I’d take a look at the mother company itself. I’d like to share a fresh presentation made by FaberNovel that shows how Google will be unaffected by the financial crisis, and, more interestingly, why they’re focusing so aggressively on the mobile space (hint: it [...]
How Google Book Search Turns Publications Into “Marketing” And Why We Should (Moderately) Love Them for It
Dec 11, 2008 3:41
Google Book Search, the not-so-catchy name for probably the biggest undertaking in history towards the complete digitalization of print-based knowledge, just announced that they’ll now be hosting magazine content in addition to books. An example. Popular Mechanics is a magazine that’s been published for a century. Think of all that knowledge, locked in that impractical [...]
A Few Thoughts About Why the Kindle Won’t Save the Publishing Industry
Dec 10, 2008 4:25
(Image courtesy of) In my last post, I noted that the Kindle might not save a publishing industry trying to turn digital “threats” into advantages. Today I discovered a post by writer Charles Stross, who talks about a similar reader, the Sony PRS-505: I’ve been thinking for a while that e-paper machines like the PRS-505 [...]
Mygazines is dead – or how not to launch an online publishing service
Oct 15, 2008 4:58
It’s been exiting watching a new online publishing site, Mygazines.com, come out of nowhere and grow like a weed. I must admit they had things going for them (like a catchy name and reasonable performance overall). It definitely wasn’t a site built overnight. But it was hard to miss the fact that the Mygazines people [...]
I pretty much started drooling over Ubiquity for Firefox: Mashups on the fly!
Sep 3, 2008 7:57
After seeing this video about Ubiquity for Firefox, that let’s you create mashups on the fly via the browser, I basically started drooling. It’s a significant step towards empowering non-geeks (or rather: geeks with poor coding skills) to create those simple, but significant (!) integrations between services that makes your day so much easier – [...]
The Rolls-Royce of Document Formats: PDF
Sep 2, 2008 3:23
I did an interview for PDF Zone about PDF and Issuu. It had a lot of interesting questions about the current and future use of PDF in the wake of the Internet, that didn’t make it in the final interview. PDF is a defacto standard format, that you either love or hate; but you simply [...]
Finally an online PDF viewer that runs WITHOUT Flash
Aug 4, 2008 6:37
I’m pleased to share a great piece of news from the Issuu laboratories. It’s something that should thrill Flash-haters and PDF lovers alike: The world’s first online publication viewer that runs completely without Flash. Well, at least I think it’s the world’s first, as I’ve just tried running Zinio, Zmags, Scribd and the rest of [...]
Wordle thinks I’m drifting. I am.
Jul 1, 2008 8:11
Playing with Wordle, above subjecting FerroGate’s RSS to it. It builds a tag cloud with options for customizing the look. What it tells me is that I really should focus more an a niche when blogging. It’s rule numero uno if your want to build a faithful audience/community around your blog. But on FerroGate there [...]
Gerd Leonhard gets online music licensing right
Jun 27, 2008 6:40
He’s a fast talker, but author/futurist Gerd Leonhard gets it right: The future of music is not really about copyright but about permission (we are not copying – we are using). Now ‘all’ we need to do, is persuade the major labels. One positive example is Danish ISP TDC (Danish only, sorry) who bought the [...]