Technology
Facebook for Content Providers: A Look at the New York Times Application
The New York Times dips its toe into the Facebook waters today with the release of its New York Times News Quiz application.”Sigh, another Facebook application.” you say? Perhaps, but this one is particularly interesting to me for a few reasons:
It is one of only a very few from traditional print publishers
It is not [...]
Books Go 2.0
Social Networking site Mashable has has assembled a new collection - Books Toolbox: 50 Sites for Book Lovers. Among some familiar sites such as Amazon and LibraryThing, you will find many others that you probably have never heard of. Although many of them simply seem to be clones of each other, there are [...]
Struggles with Google Books
Wiley author Charles Petzold points out some frustrating limitations with Google Books in a recent post on his blog.
This is not a blog entry by an author who thinks that Google Books is evil because it promotes the idea of free books.
This is a blog entry by an author who sees Google Books as [...]
Kassia Krozser Ruined Today’s Blog Post
Like many a geek, I feverishly refreshed web pages during yesterday’s Apple event - waiting to get that next scrap of gadgety goodness Steve Jobs throws our way every so often. The new iPod touch is actually the first iPod I have ever actually wanted, and I immediately started thinking about the applications one could [...]
Google Earth + Books = Almost
Yesterday, Brandon Badger, Product Manager for Google Earth announced the addition of a new Google Books Search layer.
Did you ever wonder what Lewis and Clark said about your hometown as they passed through? What about if any other historical figures wrote about your part of the world? Earlier this year, we announced a first step [...]
