Archive
YouTube
Some interesting stuff floating around about YouTube and whether it might all be about to go horribly wrong. I thought I’d bring this up as it is a landmark site for many reasons, and how its future pans out could be a weather vane for many things online, most prominently copyright and how it is [...]
Published: October 5, 2006. Read more →
Sony reader update
Two quick (and quite opposed) links about the second coming of the ebook:
IF: book on the Phony Reader Fallacy
The Guaradian on the coming of age of ebooks.
The Master Plan
Abebooks has announced a project to revise its search facilities. No big news, right?
Wrong. Abe will (and indeed, reading beyond the headline, is) be using the data collected by Librarything to create better recommendations. What does this mean? Librarything allows users to catalogue their books, and to create virtual libraries. As the data in [...]
Jason Epstein on Google
Jason Epstein, whom I blogged earlier this year, has reviewed a number of books in the current New York Review.
The books include the long tail, but mainly cover Google and it’s incredible story. Included in the reviews are veteran google watcher (and, of-late, critic) John Battelle’s The Search. It’s an OK piece, and clearly [...]
Published: October 4, 2006. Read more →
Frankfurt predictions
It’s that time of year, and for one, I’m not going to be there – although I wish I could be. I think it’s going to be a busy year in the digital side of things, so here are some predictions for what may happen in the next 6 days.
Amazon announces the launch of Kindle [...]
Published: October 3, 2006. Read more →
Fifth Estate
We’re very proud to announce the under-the-radar launch of Fifth Estate.