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Magazines on iPhone 4

June 15th, 2010 | Posted in Blog, media | View Comments
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Well, lets just say I’m looking forward to the view.  The view of digital magazines on the iPhone 4 retina display.

The 960-by-640 backlit LCD display boasts a pixel density of 326 pixels per inch, making it the highest-resolution phone screen ever. – Apple

My interest in looking back to mobile magazine presentation especially in light of the excitement around tablet editions is that the resolution of the iPhone 4 will again bring out the best in the magazine mobile presentation UX.  Improved resolution devices will continue to provide new design and layout capabilities based on magazine delivery medium.

See the video and Pic by Robert Scoble

Recommended Facebook Settings

June 1st, 2010 | Posted in Blog, media | View Comments
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Have you updated your recommended Facebook settings lately.  Today, Facebook prompted the notice to learn more about their new simple privacy controls including the recommended setting.

Recommended Facebook Settings
We offer a group of recommended settings as a default. You can think of “Everyone,” “Friends of Friends” and “Friends Only” as big buckets containing different groups of information. With our recommended settings, your information is distributed across all three buckets. “Everyone” contains status updates and information that people may want to share with a larger audience. “Friends of Friends” includes photos and videos of you, which are often relevant to friends of your friends. “Friends Only” includes all of your contact information and things that are only relevant to people you interact with directly.

via Facebook Privacy Guide.

What are your own “Recommended Facebook Settings?”

Tablet Magazine Feature Story

March 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Blog, media | View Comments
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The feature story provides reader the ultimate in editorial and now digital media.  Table magazines are poised to inspire us to re-think how we want to position our feature articles.  iPad and other tablet magazine devices will give the digital magazine an entirely new meaning.

Apple iPad Color

January 29th, 2010 | Posted in Blog, media | View Comments

The magazine presentation is really the presentation that will set the color iPad out from other eBook readers.

Web browsing, painting programs, TV and movies, newspapers and magazines all seem like naturals on this 1.5-pound machine, too

via From the Desk of David Pogue – The Apple iPad – First Impressions – NYTimes.com.

Apple iSlate – More Apple iTablet Rumors

December 27th, 2009 | Posted in Blog, media, news | View Comments
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More information about the iTablet… or shall we say the Apple iSlate, or just call it the SLATE?

Hmmm…. TiPb’s just been calling it still unannounced device the iTablet, others have called it the iPad, but how does iSlate grab you?

via Apple Owns iSlate.com, Let iTablet Name Rumors Commence! | The iPhone Blog.

More from Jon4lakers with http://technobuffalo.com/

So is Jan 26th the announce date for Apple?

Google Wave – Email Publishing

November 10th, 2009 | Posted in Blog, media, publishing, strategy | View Comments

I received my Google Wave invite from a new twitter pal (thanks again Alice @aliceinthewater http://twitter.com/Davorado/status/5576326179) and can see that it’s probably going to help bridge people to a new method of communicating.  Not that I think it will eliminate email the way we know it today.  At least not for another 5 years.  But, it strongly supports the social networking models, streams, and posting that we are growing familiar with in most social platforms.

It will be very interesting to see how the Wave is received and what new products (widgets) are created to add more value to the Google platform.  I can already see that I’ll use it for anything internal for my company to eliminate the email mess.  Maybe this process will force in some outside participants to adopt the tool in a similar way that critical mass fueled the adoption of the fax machine.

I hope!

CoTweet – How business does Twitter

June 16th, 2009 | Posted in Blog, media | View Comments
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Check out the new (in beta) Twitter business tool.

Cnet says it “CRM meets Twitter”

CoTweet powers brands on Twitter. Designed for businesses using Twitter to engage existing customers and attract new ones, CoTweet is a comprehensive Twitter business platform that supports both proactive marketing communication and response-driven customer support. https://cotweet.com/about

DIY Drones by Wired Magazine Editors

June 9th, 2009 | Posted in Blog, media | View Comments
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Interesting video by Wired Editor’s: DIY Drone Outwits Google and Berkeley Lab

Chris Anderson talks about using a “toy” to fly UAV mission (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)

Star Trek Movie 2009

June 8th, 2009 | Posted in Blog, media | View Comments
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It took some calendar coordination to find the kid coverage. In the end, the date night with my wife to see this movie was well worth all logistical challenges.

Internet Trailer for Star Trek at Listal

A chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members.

via Star Trek.

Starring

Chris Pine

James T. Kirk

Zachary Quinto

Leonard Nimoy

Eric Bana

Bruce Greenwood

Karl Urban

Zoe Saldana

Simon Pegg

John Cho

Anton Yelchin

I’m ranking it as one of my top 5 movies of all time.

Electronic Paper – Prime View International will buy E Ink

June 7th, 2009 | Posted in Blog, media | View Comments
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Kindle Flickr photo  by AGeekMom (Kindle is one type of e-ink reader related to this news)

I would expect to see continued innovation in the E Ink market.  In my opinion, the ultimate presentation of graphic content will require more dynamic color and presentation.

Taiwanese display maker Prime View International will buy E Ink, the company that developed the ‘electronic paper’ used in digital book readers from Amazon.com and Sony.

Prime View said on Monday it would pay about $215m for E Ink, whose flexible digital displays are used in Amazon’s Kindle and the Sony Reader. Privately held E Ink emerged from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology laboratory about a decade ago. source: http://kn.theiet.org/news/jun09/pvi-eink.cfm