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 [...]


Hanselman Releases Ultimate Tool List for 2007

Wrox author and Microsoft Senior Product Manager Scott Hanselman has updated his Ultimate Tools Collection for Windows for 2007 . This year’s list includes tons of new tools for Windows PowerUsers and Developers.
If you are a programmer who is not reading Scott’s blog you are missing out on a great resource.


What’s the Use in Twitter? Where is the Value?

I’ve been in all-day meetings here at work, and during a break I Twittered some of my thoughts from the meeting and casually mentioned that I was doing so to someone who was looking over my shoulder. My comments drew some interesting responses from some of my colleagues:
“What’s Twitter?”
“What a waste of time.”
“Why does anyone [...]


Does the web help authors write a book better and faster?

Forrester’s Josh Bernoff says the web is helping him write a better and faster book.
Based on the schedules that the publishing industry lives on, we need to complete a draft of Groundswell very soon. Even so, I believe we are delivering material with a high degree of quality. I thought I’d take a moment to [...]