Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Pocket-Sizing the Public Library

E-readers are all the rage these days. From the Amazon Kindle and its electronic paper display from E Ink Corporation, to the Apple iPhone and Google’s Android operating system for smartphones, society is at a tipping point in the transition from print to digital media consumption. Mobile computing devices are closer than ever to delivering the “pleasant” experience of reading a printed book, and the imminent arrival of network-enabled (Wi-Fi AND 3G) Kindle-type devices may further hasten this metamorphosis.

tiny books

Soon we will be able to fit an entire library of books in our backpack or even our pockets. Are libraries prepared for this brave new world?

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EPIC Clash of the Data Titans

When I need to know about SEO, I don’t go to some spammy search marketing scientician who claims to have reverse-engineered Google. I go to the source: Matt Cutts. But while reading Matt’s blog the other day and noticed that he had taken umbrage at a study claiming that two-thirds of Americans object to online tracking (only 66 percent?). Matt’s objection is that that one of the authors of the study, Chris Jay Hoofnagle, did not disclose his affiliation with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), an advocacy group that has lobbied to have both Gmail and Google Docs shut down. Could this be a flame war in the making?

Que Es Muy Macho?

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