The big men are up on stage now (o’reilly and batelle), talking about the conference and the mantra of where they wanted this conference to go. They are extending the concept of Obama’s speech, “yes we can” to the tech industry. We can move things forward into 2009. They believe that in this down turn
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As some of you may know a few of us from the Spreed team are attending a very interesting conference called the Web 2.0 Summit. We will have two guys live blogging the entirety of this event. Keep checking back for live updates.
In lieu of my previous post commending Vodaphone on their recent mobile ebook strategy, I think it is important to draw light on some interesting statistics that were recently brought to my attention. We know that Citigroup has estimated the total Kinde sales for 2008 to be somewhere around the 380,000 mark. Well, as of
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The article Online Literacy is a Lesser Kind where Mark Bauerlein asks us to “restrain the digitizing of all liberal-arts classrooms” reminds me of one of the oldest jokes in the book. You know the one – a man walks into a doctor’s office and raises his arm above his head and says “Doctor, Doctor,
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I just found a fantastic new blog written by an expert in the field of eye science, Kevin Larson. Anyone who is interested in how the brain and eye interact with electronic text should check it out here: The Font Blog Here is Dr. Larson’s bio, just reading this and his corresponding blog makes me
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Motoko Rich of the New York Times recently released the first of what will be a series of articles addressing online reading and the movement away from traditional forms of reading (i.e. books, newspapers, journals). I won’t go into a huge rant here as the article is quite lengthy and very detailed. But to summarize
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Before the iTunes App Store, first generation iPhone users pointed their browsers to the Apple Web App store which features thousands of web applications specifically designed for the iPhone and iTouch. Users have the ability to browse through the same categories as they can in the now popular iTunes store, but they don’t have to
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I would just like to say thank you for all the help and support that we have received from the North American tech community. The Spreed:News launch yesterday was spectacular and we are even more excited for the coming days. Please contact us or post a comment here if you have any feedback or ideas
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I am very proud to announce to launch of Spreed:News today. Spreed:News is a mobile application that gives users a better reading experience on their mobile devices. The first version of our software will be available only through the iPhone. However, we will be working hard over the next month to offer both Windows Mobile
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Those of you who are tech-savvy probably already saw the mistake we made in yesterday’s blog. In our excitement over what we had perceived to be a major step forward in mobile device design, we rushed to an incorrect assumption. A statement on Readius’s website was misunderstood and led us to think that this was
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