Very cool! I’ve been curating a Flipboard magazine for a few months now, gathered a modest following, and now that Flipboard magazine is featured as Flipboard makes the huge leap to sharing magazines on the web!
On Gaming is featured in the ‘Magazines we Love’ section of Flipboard’s Community profiled pages.
So now, you don’t need to view Flipboard magazines only on mobile devices — you can easily find the with any web browser.
Earlier this week OK Go parted ways with their record label in order to have more creative and publishing control over their music videos. Short version – EMI was not letting their videos be published through YouTube. Longer version and overview at FastCompany.
Since that relationship has ended, the following link to the YouTube video of OK Go’s awesome ‘This too shall pass’ video is my simple way of supporting their move. Well done.
eBooks are going to be bigger than ever in the coming months, especially since Apple’s recently announced its iBooks ebook store. It’s pure speculation on my part, but I’m thinking that in the coming months with the launch of the iPad, iBooks will also be available for the iPhone and iPod touch… …more
This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techblog. Check out the full post here.
Next Wednesday, Apple will host one of the most anticipated technology announcements of the year, perhaps of this still-fresh decade.
The reason for this level of attention is that everyone anticipates that Apple will re-launch a device that the industry has been trying to make work for 20 years — the Tablet computer.
As some pundits predict, this could be the thin-edge-of-the-wedge that will change the publishing industry. Think eBooks, newspapers and magazines:
If the tablet does emphasize ebooks the way analysts expect it to, we can only hope that Apple helps show publishers The Way in a future version of the iPhone SDK, similar to Amazon’s active content Kindle development kit (KDK) announced yesterday. If the tablet succeeds in its arena, the way the iPhone has before, authors and publishers will be able to Publish Different.
The currently leading name for the device is the iSlate – based on some clever detective work that uncovered Apple ownership of the domain name:
…islate.com was registered to Apple in 2007, through an intermediary (to disguise its true owner). At the moment, that domain doesn’t seem to lead anywhere—and there are a couple explanations.
And, earlier this month, coincidentally coinciding with CES and the plethora of Tablet, Slate, Pad announcements from other hardware vendors, Apple announced Wednesday’s event, apparently leaked business and product production information, and generally kicked the hype level up a notch.
And frankly, I hope Apple does release a Tablet. This kind of technology has the ability to change (again) how we work and think about distributed computing tech. making it more mobile and creating new modes for consuming and interacting with content.
And yes, I’ll be paying attention to the event and posting my thoughts shortly afterward.
Given all the hype eBook readers are getting these days, especially during and after CES, I thought I’d explore which was more valuable, the data object, or the data. …more
This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techblog. Check out the full post here.