Mary Lou Jepsen just popped into town from Taiwan, and brought along a few prototypes of her company’s new displays with her. So I went over to her houseboat for a quick visit this morning. I’m pretty excited: This could be the magic bullet for the e-reader market—at least for the next few years.
About 18 months ago, a few of my buds and I were ovulating a scheme for something we were calling the Social News Network. The idea was pretty simple: How could we use Facebook to create a news network? I figured we’d start with a website, baited with news items that were irresistible to Facebookers, [...]
Cool iPhone app of the day: Simplify Music 2.0. Download it to your iPhone ($2.99—worth it!) and then go to Simplify Media‘s website, register and download the software for Mac, PC or Linux. Now you can stream all your tunes to your iPhone, wherever you are. Doesn’t matter if you’re on Wifi, 3G or pokey [...]
An amazing thing happened today: The battery on my Kindle 2 finally ran out of juice.
Palm’s Pre is still months away from launch, but already it’s making the world a better place. Proof? Apple today announced that a raft of improvements is coming to the iPhone–including, at long last cut and paste. That critical feature, along with a bunch of others, will help the world’s hottest smartphone (17 million sold [...]
Like just about ever other idiot who immigrated to Facebook some time ago, during registration, I dutifully filled in my birth date. That, plus the fact that I am a promiscuous friender—I will accept almost any Friend request—has resulted in a stream of birthday greetings. (A few an hour for the past few days. I’m [...]
There’s a big-ass opportunity for old media: Migrate your content to offline digital platforms!
