As Twitter matures, the people who use it must follow or get left behind.
How Twitter made the transition from novelty to an inseparable part of current social media.
It is a good news for Internet users, especially google users to see the google books under cc licenses. The more rights of viewers to see the books, the more criticize and ideas come out. then more crticize, the more critics criticize, the better the information is shared by authors and readers. The better the information is about how to improve the books, the more improvement of content is made.
E-book collections, such as ebrary and Netlibrary, provided an economical opportunity to fill
gaps in our print collection. With an institutional focus on distance education, e-books seemed to
provide the obvious solution for how to serve users who will never come to campus. With our
traditional users taking to e-journals immediately, we thought e-books would be a win-win
solution. However, use statistics indicated that our e-book collections remain underutilized.
This paper explores alternative forms of IBM technical documentation in the form of two case studies-one an eBook and the other a Macromedia Flash-based interactive multimedia presentation. Both projects were co-developed by the writers and graphic designers, with a mandate to create a rich, graphical approach to entice and engage users to read and understand complex technical concepts.
Abstract
This paper argues that the evolution of e-book technology is related to the penetrating impact of networks and information technology on society. It defines the concept of e-book and describes some aspects of e-book technology. By focusing on book production processes, the paper examines what probable consequences the development of e-books and a global network economy will have for publishers and book industries. E-books, along with other electronic formats, will trigger major changes as the digital products and distribution channels will force the logic of the network economy on the book publishing industry.
GOOGLE has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that produces the squiggly words used by websites to guard against spam and fraud.
reCAPTCHA's technology would be used to increase fraud and spam protection for Google products "but also to improve books and newspaper scanning process."
Vogue model Liskula Cohen sought the identity of the blogger so she could sue her for defamation against claims that she was the 'skankiest in NYV.' Manhattan Supreme Court rules that Google who hosted the blogger, turn them over. Is this the demise of anonymous blogging?
Bing positions itself as a 'decision engine' with the launch of 'visual search in Bing.' Instead of providing a list of blue hyptertext links, now Bing will visualise their search results on a 3D grid including icons and photos.
e-book market is threatened by unfettered proliferation of e-book platforms, formats, and DRMs. Some service providers support multiple e-book platforms and DRMs. They can adopt this type of model, but do publishers agree to support it in their licensing agreements?
AT&T dispute with Google regarding legal frameworks for communications, specifically Google's movements into telecommunications, which AT&T argue violates net neutrality principles.
A new report shows how researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about the channels they should use to communicate their research findings.