October 2011
3 posts
“I got a Kindle about a year ago, and I use it much more than I expected to. I...”
– Daring Fireball: Amazon’s New Kindles
“The world belongs to platforms. Everyone wants to be a platform,” said Lou...”
– Zynga Releases New Games and a New Platform - NYTimes.com
“In other words, while Mr. Jobs tried to understand the problems that technology...”
– What Steve Jobs Understood That Our Politicians Don’t - NYTimes.com
August 2011
1 post
Steve Jobs’s Patents - Interactive Feature -... →
July 2011
2 posts
“Apple has sold 25 million iPads since it launched last year. The company sold...”
– Hackers Expose Flaw in Apple iPad, iPhone Software - NYTimes.com
“Dr Dee: An English Opera,” created by Mr. Albarn and its director, Rufus Norris,...”
– Damon Albarn Opera ‘Dr Dee’ at Manchester Festival - Review - NYTimes.com
February 2011
1 post
“Nicholas Carr, author of “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our...”
– Stars and Sewers - NYTimes.com
November 2010
3 posts
“In theory, those apps should combine the benefits of old and new media. They...”
– On an Innovative Device, Apps Lacking Imagination - NYTimes.com
“If people [in Boston] want to have things that are solid and defensible, that’s...”
– Peter Thiel, Facebook’s first big backer, thinks the future of global innovation may hinge on more entrepreneurial college drop-outs - Innovation Economy - Boston.com
“Although scholars once distinguished between “philosophical Taoism” and...”
– China’s Taoism Revival - NYTimes.com
April 2010
3 posts
“And some are even free. Take, for instance, the one for Kayak, which in the iPad...”
– Practical Traveler - Testing the iPad’s Trip-Worthiness - NYTimes.com
“The only way to understand and predict large new markets is through narratives....”
– Size markets using narratives, not numbers cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog
“All men need the gods,” as Homer has it, and nothing since then — not Galileo,...”
– Book Review - Christianity - The First Three Thousand Years - By Diarmaid MacCulloch - Review - NYTimes.com
February 2010
2 posts
“The capacity for intense focus, they note, relies in large part on a brain area...”
– Depression’s Upside - NYTimes.com
“Unfortunately, Adobe sees the world very differently to Google or Apple. I...”
– Further thoughts about the iPad, Flash, and what Jobs said. « e2easy AIR applications
October 2009
1 post
“The Association of American Publishers estimated that these hardcover sales in...”
– Digital Domain - Will Piracy Become a Problem for E-Books? - NYTimes.com
September 2009
5 posts
“27% read no books in the previous year
62% have read 0-9 books. I don’t know...”
– Steve Jobs still doesn’t think much of dedicated e-readers | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
“Second, market output represents a subset of total economic output. Most of us...”
– What We’ve Learned: Our (Increasingly) Non-Market Economy - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com
“hat’s why his firm just launched an event called Office Hours, a sort of...”
– ‘Super Angels’ Shake Up Venture Capital - BusinessWeek
“Kopelman meets with Jose Ferreira, chief executive of an online education...”
– ‘Super Angels’ Shake Up Venture Capital - BusinessWeek
“Venture firms raise money from institutional investors and wealthy individuals...”
– ‘Super Angels’ Shake Up Venture Capital - BusinessWeek
August 2009
7 posts
“For example, Apple receives 8,500 new applications and updates to applications...”
– Apple Lifts the Curtain on App Store Approvals - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“On Monday, Mr. Sprang said the application had its highest-selling day since it...”
– New Yorker iPhone Cover Lifts Sales for Brushes App - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“Geniuses tend to see their own lives as universally significant, embodying the...”
– Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple - Times Online
“It was in here, in the town of Mountain View, that Jobs spent his childhood. He...”
– Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple - Times Online
“He wrote about Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens, but also George Balanchine and...”
– Richard Poirier, Founder of the Literary Journal Raritan, Is Dead at 83 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
“Remember that we are talking about the iPod tablet, not the Mac tablet....”
– Rumored Apple Tablet Is a Train Wreck - Business Center - PC World
“Since a book or magazine is designed for laying flat, you have to be looking...”
– Rumored Apple Tablet Is a Train Wreck - Business Center - PC World
July 2009
25 posts
“LibreDigital chairman Martin Neath (he’s a partner at Adams) claims the market...”
– LibreDigital scores $15M second round for eBook distribution | VentureBeat
“The round was led by Triangle Peak Partners, a first-time investor in...”
– LibreDigital scores $15M second round for eBook distribution | VentureBeat
“Universalis is interesting because it is an infinitely long e-book - different...”
– E-book apps: Which are your faves, which do you hate, and which publishers allow ePub extraction? | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
“The iPod screen’s resolution, at a hundred and sixty-three pixels per inch, is...”
– Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker
“Pilot programs have arisen at several universities, including Princeton, which...”
– Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker
“E Ink ran into some trouble after 2000, when there was less venture capital to...”
– Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker
“The newspaper industry, Wilcox figured, was a...”
– Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker
“nstead of ink on paper, there’s something called Vizplex. Vizplex is the trade...”
– Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker
“A Kindle book arrives wirelessly: it’s untouchable; it exists on a higher, purer...”
– Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker
“Maybe you’ve heard of the Sony Reader? The Sony Reader’s page-turning controls...”
– Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker
“Here’s what you buy when you buy a Kindle book. You buy the right to display a...”
– Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker
“The problem was not that the screen was in black-and-white; if it had really...”
– Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker
“A major problem for the publishing industry is that many in the up and coming,...”
– Why Publishing Cannot Be Saved (As It Is) | Publishing Perspectives
“Books earned their place in our civilization because for millennia brave...”
– Why Publishing Cannot Be Saved (As It Is) | Publishing Perspectives
“Clearly the reading group is the best thing that happened to publishing in the...”
– Why Publishing Cannot Be Saved (As It Is) | Publishing Perspectives
“Slow food and slow travel are part of a broader slow movement that has expanded...”
– ‘Slow’ movements urge taking care to savor one’s life, food, investments, travel - The Boston Globe
mobile Bulk Apps
“The release of Bulk Apps is a monetization strategy. These developers aim to sell many apps at low price points and low volumes, rather than millions of downloads of one killer app,” said Kate Imbach, director of marketing and developer programs at Skyhook Wireless. “There is not yet a well-understood path to monetization for mobile apps. Developers are experimenting with...
“For another, the Daily Grommet has a common-sense business model that blends...”
– Behind Every Good Product Is a Story; The Daily Grommet Brings You One a Day | Xconomy
“We shouldn’t wait a decade or two to begin to achieve what is inevitable — an...”
– Democratic Group’s Proposal: Give Each Student a Kindle - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“I think what we’re seeing is the bifurcation of the startup capital...”
– Innovation Economy: Crimson Hexagon: Tracking Online Conversations
“The idea isn’t to ban outright any domain that uses a trademark, but to...”
– Brokering Peace Between Brand Owners and Domainers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“In Japan, the market for digital publishing continues to grow at a rate of 200%...”
– How the Tokyo Book Fair Helps Rights Seekers | Publishing Perspectives