And For Our Next Trick - Introducing Wrox’s ASP3Wiki
Recently we launched Wrox Blox, our bite-sized e-content products for programmers. Today we continue with new e-content initiatives and have announced our partnership with Near-Time to produce a new line of wiki-based products.
The first of these new products is ASP3Wiki, and is best summarized by this post on Jim Mintel’s blog.
Wrox’s ASP3Wiki is the complete [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The future of the e-book might be a… book?
Check out this amazing hybrid creation from Manolis Kelaidis that combines a traditional book over-printed with conductive ink. Manolis presented his project blueBook at the O’Reilly TOC conference this week and is receiving rave reviews.
From Andrea Laue:
He asked the audience if, upon encountering an obscure reference or foreign word on the page of a [...]
What Should an e-Book Be?
Yesterday, as part of my Suggested Reading I posted a link to a great post at one of my favorite programming blogs, Coding Horror. The post is generating a lot of conversation about technology books, and in this case the books are 2 programming titles - one of which makes use of color in its [...]
