Ex-Apple Engineers Blow Up the Book

Tools like Push Pop Press lower the barriers of entry for content creators who want to create interactive digital versions of their products.This will help smaller publishers expand their product line and hopefully generate revenue.

Amplify’d from www.wired.com

Push Pop Press has the potential to have an impact on the print industry, which is scrambling to produce digital versions of books, magazines and newspapers in hopes of reversing declining revenues. For magazine publishers and newspapers, one of the trendiest solutions involves creating iPad or Android editions of publications. Read more at www.wired.com

 

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Lessons from the Amazon Cloud

Many folks were caught with their heads in the clouds and simply forgot about a critical item for any technology initiative - Risk Mitigation. Every solution is subject to failure - so you should plan for it.



Look at #7 in my early post .... IT Project Success

http://mediamix.amplify.com/2011/04/08/it-project-success-10-lessons-learned/

Amplify’d from www.v3.co.uk

Amazon is struggling to overcome an outage in its cloud computing services, prompting industry pundits to underscore the need for enterprises to back up critical services.

Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle suggested that the incident should show enterprises that any essential cloud applications or services should be backed up with a contingency plan, similar to that of an on-premise service. Read more at www.v3.co.uk

 

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Learning Social-Media Smarts

The digital divide is shrinking - at least in the workplace. Employees are more savvy than ever before, everyone seems to be a programmer or a blogger these days. So its critical for corporate leadership to recognize this and to look for ways to harness these skills to increase operational efficiency and productivity.

Amplify’d from www.wallstreetjournal.com

In their private lives, users of Facebook, Twitter and other social media are completely at ease forming communities of shared interests and keeping everyone up-to-date with messages, pictures and documents. Now they are ready to put those same tools to work at the office—to help everyone see who knows what, who needs what information, and how to coordinate their work.

Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are some of the first collaboration models your workers encountered, but they won't be the last. Some of your employees may now be experimenting with mobile video and location-aware applications. Always be willing to learn from employees about new technologies. Read more at www.wallstreetjournal.com

 

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Amazon Kindle & iPad Can Borrow Books

Here is a great reason to get a library card. Electronic book borrowing is the next step in the evolution of digital content distribution for our public libraries.

Amplify’d from www.bbc.co.uk

Users of Amazon's Kindle e-reader will soon be able to borrow electronic books from libraries in the US. Read more at www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Google Allows You to Design the Map

Place your favorite neighborhood shops/restaurants on the map with Google Map Maker -- On second thought, I may leave my butcher off of the list -- he's better kept as a local secret!

Amplify’d from www.mercurynews.com

Google, starting Tuesday, will allow U.S. users to begin editing changes into Google Maps, allowing people to include the most specific geographic items in their neighborhoods, which Google hopes will enrich its valuable geographic database. Read more at www.mercurynews.com

 

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Skype for Android leaks user data

At this point I suspect that all of my personal information has been leaked all over the planet - Whether its Skype - Adobe Flash - Google -- or my wholesale food club, who let an employee download all of the companies customer data on to a laptop that was subsequently stolen. The problem is larger than sloppy code.

Amplify’d from www.computerworld.com

A flaw in Skype for Android could let criminals harvest private information from smartphones, including the user's name and email address, contacts and chat logs, the Internet calling software maker confirmed Friday.

One security researcher called it "sloppy coding" and a "disrespect for your privacy." Read more at www.computerworld.com

 

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MC Hammer - The Twitter Effect

Who doesn't remember "Can't Touch This" -


I commented earlier in the week about a new company "Kiip" - that has a new reward-based ad model for gamers. While I think Kiip is a great idea - I have been more fascinated by the fact that MC Hammer was the celebrity Tweeter at the launch. Well MC (Media Controller) Hammer is back in a social way and Twitter is his platform. With 2 Mil + followers (more than Lebron James and Tom Hanks) and growing daily - companies like Kiip are looking to capitalize on his social media popularity as a spokesperson to launch their products. His work on twitter has given him new life. Check him out.

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