04/09/08

Apt’s links for November 30th through September 3rd

• We Are Sterling Cooper – “We’re your biggest fans, your die-hard proponents, and when your show gets cancelled we’ll be among the first to pass around the petition. Talk to us. Befriend us. Engage us. But please, don’t treat us like criminals.”
• Five Ways Amazon Can Improve the Kindle 2.0 | Gadget Lab from Wired.com –
• Message Web Design – Drop-down menus; no thanks! – For potential future reference
• Don’t just buy the music, fans told – now you can invest in big names of the future | Business | The Guardian – “Investors will get a copy of the album, a credit on the CD sleeve and a percentage of the profits from its sale and licensing. They will also get priority ticket booking and the opportunity to buy limited edition releases. For the artist, founder Andrew Lewis claimed that Bandstocks would offer a better return than a major-label deal, as well as more freedom and control over copyright.”
• Vitamin Features » The 5 hidden costs of running a CMS –
• LibraryThing strategy in an age of Amazon/Shelfari | Recommend Site Improvements | LibraryThing – “Any any case, once the Amazon/Shelfari deal goes through, we are competing against Amazon.” I love Tim and LT.
• Upgrade Released for iPhone E-book Software – 8/13/2008 8:07:00 AM – Publishers Weekly – Interesting numbers?
• Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog: How Can Book Publishers Remain Relevant? –
• Book Publishers: Learn From Digg, Yelp?Even Gawker –
• threepress: open source software for publishers – Excellent blue sky post. Watch out for these guys
• Is Amazon’s Kindle the iPod of the book world? | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk – More kindle fodder…. catching up on RSS… forgive lots of links
• Apple’s Ambitious iPhone 3G Plans – “Apple plans to build 40 million to 45 million iPhone 3Gs in the 12 months through August 2009, according to a person familiar with the company’s plans. The low end of that range is 52% more than the 26 million Munster expects the company to sell in that time”
• Infovore » Playing Together: What Games Can Learn from Social Software –
• Amazon.com buys Shelfari|Techvibes|Blog – “If you assume that Techcrunch’s social networking valuation calculation is correct at $132 per unique user – http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/23/modeling-the-real-market-value-of-social-networks/ – and that Shelfari has between 100K and 120K uniques per month (Compete.com has them down for 180K visitors/month), the max valuation would be $15 Million. That being said, vertical social networks don’t really monetize well, so I’d peg it closer $10 Million.”
• Open Question: Have You Seen a Kindle in Public? – Tools of Change for Publishing – “I was amazed last week when I saw two Kindles in the wild. On a flight from Orlando to Nashville, a woman in her mid-twenties sitting in front of me was using one. I also had breakfast with someone who was reading his Kindle as I walked up to meet him. In both cases, I discussed how awful we think the hardware is — and how great the download via EVDO feature is.”
• 100 years on, a chance to relive Shackleton expedition | Travel | The Guardian – “The adventurer will have to be fit, though, to keep up with the rest of the expedition, which consists of Worsley and five others, among them Shackleton’s great-grandson, Patrick Bergel.” Patrick? Fit? I’ve got pictures of the lad struggling to get up a molehill.
• Ask 37signals: How do you make screencast videos? – (37signals) –
• iShowU – Screencast software, for a rainy day.
• Amazon.com buys Shelfari, a startup for book lovers – Well well. Amazon seems to have decided that there is a future in the social side of books. Very interesting. In a not-unique-to-amazon way, they have stakes in both LibraryThing and Shelfari….
• pennies –
• YouTube – History of the Predictive Text Swearing –
• Books-A-Million Online Bookstore : Buy Discount Books Music Movies Magazines : Booksamillion .com – Hmmm. CHeck it out. Happy Cog design a bookstore.
• How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought) – In many respects, what they say here about software works well for websites as well.
• Changes in book trade 2 – “It’s not easy to convey the impact on corporate thinking of the sheer cataract of money that floods the coffers when a really humungous hit comes your way.”
• What If the Kindle Succeeds? | Electronic Frontier Foundation – kindle ebooks
• The Believer – Interview with David Simon – “The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him. Fuck him to hell.” Truth dat. Thanks Russell
• In the Arms of Strangers » Blog Archive » Little books for little screens – Alex Lee’s Blog – Alex on where to get small, short stories for mobile occasions
• thedigitalist.net » Short Fiction in the Age of the Ebook – Second of two pieces about tailoring short content for mobile devices
• Clients and Content Management Systems – Monday By Noon – ?I don?t get it, can I use Word to copy and paste??
• Random Ebook Thoughts From A Jetlagged Mind | Booksquare – Nice observations from KK on a trip to the UK. But Kassia – next time – let us know in advance, and we’ll take you to lunch…
• Earth’s News Feed – A couple of quite good buzzfeed items
• Small Talk with a Web Designer –
• Internet’s potential for worldwide change can and will be greater still | Comment is free | The Observer – “Doris Lessing’s Nobel lecture last December included what many saw as an attack on the internet.” Interesting how far DL’s comments spread, if it’s on Vincent Cerf’s radar. Interesting also from a PR perspective for our www.thegoldennotebook.com project (which is looking really very lovely right now) could be spun.
• Helene?s site of wonder » Blog Archive » Waking the book publishers (by other means than piracy) – “Dear publisher, It seems like you don?t offer ?bookname? by ?author? as an ebook. Do you have any plans to do so” [Via James]

Posted by Peter Collingridge in Links.

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