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Amazon Kindle Owners Receive Presidential Exclusives
Written by Corvida / September 10, 2008 4:23 PM / 4 Comments

Since Amazon's Kindle introduction to the world last year, the company has increased the number of available book titles for the portable reader from 90,000 to over 170,000. Most

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Hitwise: Interest in eBooks Continues to Grow
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 2, 2009 9:59 AM

While Amazon's Kindle eBook reader sold quite well since its introduction in November 2007, eBooks have yet to reach the mainstream. According to the latest data from Hitwise, however, interest

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The Future of Web Apps and Services, circa 2001
Written by Richard MacManus / September 19, 2005 6:10 PM / 5 Comments

I love reading old books about the Web and Internet. I'm in the middle of Stewart Brand's classic book from the 80's, The Media Lab, right now. Anyway I came

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Commuto: Community-Based Online Trading
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 1, 2008 1:30 PM / 7 Comments

Commuto puts an interesting spin on trading real world goods on the Internet. Clearly, it would be extremely hard for any start-up to be successful in this space when the

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Free Webinar on Social Technology Today
Written by Sarah Perez / May 9, 2008 7:38 AM / 4 Comments

You've probably heard people talking about the new "it" book: "Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies." The book discusses the current trend of people using online social

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EBooks: Sony Announces Wireless Reader and Partnerships with More Booksellers & Libraries
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 25, 2009 9:31 AM / 5 Comments

Sony today announced that it will sell a wireless eReader device for $399 by Christmas. The Reader Daily Edition will be powered by AT&T's 3G network. That in itself is

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reCaptcha: Stopping Spam While Transcribing Books
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 24, 2008 11:35 AM / 9 Comments

CAPTCHAs, those pesky challenge-response tests that many web sites use to determine whether you are human or a spambot, are an annoyance to many users. According to a report in

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Gates on Next 10 Years - Microsoft wants to be OS for Entertainment
Written by Richard MacManus / November 16, 2006 4:46 PM / 6 Comments

Bill Gates spoke yesterday at the TechNet event at Stanford University. Here are his thoughts on what changes IT will make in society over the next 10 years: "Changes

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Standard URLs - Proposal for a Web with Less Search
Written by Alex Iskold / June 28, 2007 7:23 PM / 34 Comments

This post is a result of an email exchange between Greg Pass from Summize and myself (Alex Iskold). Big thanks to Greg for his original ideas and the technical collaboration.

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Cut-ups of my Top 10 posts of 2004
Written by Richard MacManus / December 9, 2004 11:28 AM

Back in the early 90's I used to read William S. Burroughs books and for a while I was quite taken with his "cut-up" method of writing. The cut-up technique

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