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Apt’s links for July 17th
Google Maps – “(not) world music”. Imagine going on one of the most luxurious cruises and being accompanied by some of the sweetest sounds ever committed to mp3dom.” Nice cover art.
Bad News For The Kindle: iPhone 3G + Apps (AAPL, AMZN) – Comment: “I don’t think the iPhone can compete as a dedicated e-Reader. Firstly, [...]
Published: July 18, 2008. Read more →
Two good podcasts on “publishing 2.0″
I’ve bemoaned (to readers in RSS) the generally dire quality of this year’s BEA BookExpoCasts.
However yesterday I listened to two of their most recent postings, both of a digital bent.
The first was hosted by Mike Shatzkin and is called “Teaching some old publishing dogs new tricks” and features some “learnings” from third-party tech vendors, on [...]
Published: July 17, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for July 15th
furbo.org · Bugging – “The only way to ?test? a fix is to release the changes to tens of thousands of users. It?s the developer equivalent of playing Russian roulette.”
Lonely Planet Developer Network – Lonely Planet?s Explore API – Terms of Use – Hang on. Publisher. Doing. Fun. Things. With. Data? Proprietary data?
RA DIOHEA_D / [...]
Published: July 16, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for July 14th
How We Built an iPhone App for $4873.92 | None | Gifter – “But it turns out that if you do your own development work, you can launch an iPhone app for even less. Here?s what we spent…”
iPhone App Store Downloads Top 10 Million in First Weekend – “Apple® today announced that iPhone? and iPod® [...]
Published: July 15, 2008. Read more →
Stanza for iTouch / iPhone
I updated the software on my iPod Touch over the weekend (and *man* it took a long time). But this morning, after a newsflash from TeleRead, I downloaded and installed the (free) Stanza iPod application from the iTunes store, which is exactly why I ran the upgrade.
Crucially – see below – Stanza (which also has [...]
Published: July 14, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for July 11th
Dear Lulu by Hochschule Darmstadt (Book) in Reference – “a calibration document for testing colour, pattern, format, texture and typography… halftoning, point size, line, geometry, skin tone, colour texture, cropping and print finishing provide useful data for other designers and self-publishers”
SEOmoz | Whiteboard Friday – SEO Site Reviews Step-by-Step – “all of the important components [...]
Published: July 12, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for July 10th
Call Me Fishmeal.: Pimp My Code, Part 15: The Greatest Bug of All – “in a case like this, you’d need to make sure you have a recent backup of your machine, because, damn. I mean, I’ve been programming for a long, long, long, long, long, l[...] ong, long time, and I’ve never seen a [...]
Published: July 11, 2008. Read more →
Enriched.
Things are accelerating around us, and standing still at the same time.
For all the talk of digital innovation, new strategies, experimentation, skunkworks and failing cheaply, the picture in the UK publishing industry still feels like one that is failing to get anywhere new very quickly. It’s not hard to feel that the innovations that [...]
Published: July 10, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for July 7th
magCulture.com » How a page gets created – Feel the pain of graphic design.
The Shaping of Things to Come – “I?ve never liked the traditional direct marketing model, the idea of direct mail irks me. I cannot believe that people even consider operating models with such appallingly low hit rates.”
BA to unveil three-way transatlantic alliance [...]
Published: July 8, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for July 6th
LibraryThing: Introducing the LibraryThing books API – Biiiig news. Expect some late night and weekend prodding of this.
Pixar?s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation – GigaOM – ?Look, I don?t have to do the water through a computer simulation program? I?m perfectly content to film a splash in a swimming pool and just composite the water [...]
Published: July 7, 2008. Read more →