It has been a little over a week since My iPad was delivered, and in that time I have had the opportunity to try it out at home, at work, and on the road. In fact, I’m currently typing this entry on it from the hotel restaurant at the CNI Spring task force meeting. I [...]
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So I was completely wrong about the iPad sporting a nifty ZUI. Reading some of the “expert” commentary regarding the newly announced Apple tablet, it appears that there is a great deal of disappointment in the device due in large part to a seeming lack of innovative technology. Steve Jobs didn’t convince a lot of [...]
04 Mar, 2009
Amazon now rules eBooks, and Libraries should pay attention (or, why I’m not worried that Amazon will say “All your book are belong to us”, and even if they do, why it doesn’t matter)
Posted by: jaf In: Hardware|Librarianship|digital libraries|eBooks
Amazon got it right – again. Today, they released a Kindle app for the iPhone, thereby allowing iPhone users to access Amazon’s eBook collection. This is big; iPhone owners were already reading eBooks on their devices using one of a variety of eBook reading applications available for the device. Now, Amazon can leverage the iPhone [...]
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- Apple's Ping would be much better if you could post and like on music in your library, not just music in the itunes store.2010/09/03 09:11
- trying out Siri2010/08/25 06:13
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http://digitallibrarian.org/?p=1212010/08/19 13:49 - NBP: What do we want from Discovery? Maybe it's to save the time of the user....
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- Librarians are *the* search experts…
- What do we want from Discovery? Maybe it’s to save the time of the user….
- Putting a library in Starbucks
- 1 week of iPad
- Apples and Oranges
- Wild Guess: New apple tablet will have a zoomable 3D UI
- PIL report on how college students seek information
- JISC guide to microblogging
- To purposely restrict internet access
- Mobile Access to the Library at Oregon State
- ranti: Is this not one of those chicken-egg thingy? If one needs data before one chooses to implement a discovery tool, one needs to implement the discovery
- Doug Ransom: I think this will be the ideal device for those who are not interested in maintaining and backing up a computer. This will be a great device for peop
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