Social Media Policy
A social media policy should outline the corporate guidelines or principles of communicating online; http://tr.im/jRiP
Updates from April, 2009 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
Gerrit Eicker
Amazon Acquires Stanza
Amazon has acquired Lexcyle, the company behind the iPhone eBook reader Stanza; http://tr.im/jRhs
Gerrit Eicker
Social Commerce
The future of the Social Web in 5 eras: from social relationships to social commerce; http://tr.im/jOm1
Gerrit Eicker
Modernisierungsversagen der Medieneliten
Carta: 10 Thesen zum Modernisierungsversagen der Medieneliten; http://tr.im/jNhB
Gerrit Eicker
International Paradox
The International Paradox: In developing countries, web grows without profit; http://tr.im/jNgC
Gerrit Eicker
GE: 100 DVDs on 1 Disc
GE says it has achieved a breakthrough in digital storage: 100 DVDs on 1 disc! – http://tr.im/jNeW
Gerrit Eicker
Print is Not Dead
Nolan on print: “Our goal is to learn and understand when, how, and what our audience wants”; http://tr.im/jNd0
Gerrit Eicker
Facebook Opens Status Updates?
Facebook to open status updates to third-party devolopers, including photos and videos; http://tr.im/jMYj
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Gerrit Eicker
WSJ: “Facebook Inc. is expected to announce significant plans to open up core parts of its sites – namely the information that appears in the stream of updates on users’ homepages and profiles – to third-party developers so that they can build new services on top of it, people familiar with the matter say.”
TC: “If Facebook really is opening most of its data, it would seem to me it’s a smart move to stop some of the momentum that smaller rivals, like Twitter, are getting. After all, Facebook still has its big stick – over 200 million users and more importantly, their data. Now it may be able to fully swing it.”
Mashable: “We’ll likely see a bunch of new applications to post media to Facebook (think: browser plugins and desktop applications) and explore content from friends, but building an open ecosystem will not change the closed culture of Facebook and our willingness to share with only a small circle of personal friends there. Twitter, then, remains the most open…culturally, at least.“
Gerrit Eicker
Kindle + Offbeat: the Up to Date Travel Guide
Offbeat Guides offers 500 of the company’s newest travel guides in the Kindle store; http://tr.im/jMVL
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David Sifry
Thanks for the mention! Hope you enjoy the guides as much as we enjoy making them. :-)
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Gerrit Eicker
I’d really like to, but until now Amazon doesn’t offer the Kindle in Germany. You, as a publisher, should also ask them: “Why not?“
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Gerrit Eicker
Wolfram Alpha: a Preview
RWW previews WolframAlpha: “Maybe it is actually wrong to call (it) a search engine at all”; http://tr.im/jJ6D
Lexcycle: “We are excited to join forces with a company that has innovated on behalf of readers for over a decade and is a pioneer in ebooks. Like Amazon, we believe there is a lot of innovation ahead for ebooks and we could not think of a better company to join during this exciting time.”
NYT: “Stanza allows users to browse a library of around 100,000 books and periodicals for the iPhone, many of them in the ePub format – a widely accepted standard for e-books that Amazon has yet to support with its proprietary Kindle platform.”
pC: “Stanza is more than an iPhone app; it’s a desktop e-reader app for Mac and PC and a store for books. But it’s the iPhone app that grabbed people’s attention, allowing them to move beyond a browser experience into reader-friendly digital books via Apple’s iPhone or iTouch and prompting more than a half-million downloads in the first few months. Roughly 10 months after its July 2008 launch for iPhone, Stanza claims more than 1.5 million users.“