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Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine - 1 views

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  • It is a third gadget, the long-awaited Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire, that represents his company’s most ambitious leap into the hearts, minds, and wallets of millions of consumers.
  • the Fire is an emblem of a post-web world, in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someone’s data center.
  • Amazon, on the other hand, is a content-focused company—almost half of its revenue comes from sales of media like books, music, TV shows
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  • This keeps iPads tethered to the paradigm of local storage, putting a premium on machines with more memory (which cost hundreds of dollars more). Amazon, by contrast, emphasizes streaming.
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New technologies enter our lives and society in four stages. - Slate Magazine - 2 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 19 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • smartphones just haven’t been around as long as TV; we haven’t yet established norms, or language, for what's socially acceptable and what's off limits.
  • struggling to make sense of a technology he didn't completely understand and the affect
  • smartphones move from Stage 2 to Stage 3. What is the indicator for this grand cultural shift? Dilbert
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  • This holiday season, Stage 3 technologies lined big-box stores and the pages of online retailers. This year, it was the iPad 2 and the Kindle Fire.
  • When a technology becomes mundane, it gets absorbed into the fabric of our lives and the history of our culture.
  • living in fear that texting and the Internet were stealing his girls, about 12 and 14, from him and his wife.
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130+ Free Kaplan Books for Your iOS, Kindle, Nook or Sony Device!! - Tech the Plunge - 0 views

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How My School Is Transitioning to Digital Textbooks: Organizing (Step 1 of 5) | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • How My School Is Transitioning to Digital Textbooks: Organizing (Step 1 of 5)
  • This fall, Burlington High School will transition to a 1:1 school exclusively with the iPad 2. One of the goals of this initiative is to slowly transition curriculum and textbooks to ePub format. ePub file format allows anyone to create a file that is readable on an iOS device or Kindle like a book
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