cloud computing

Wednesday News: Food printer, Barnes & Noble as a showroom; and 1 Terabyte free storage from flickr

How Barnes & Noble Overlooks Its Biggest Asset – Forbes suggests Barnes & Noble become a showroom for internet companies such as the high end fashion coops like Gilt Groupe to hand crafted items from Etsy sellers. It’s not a bad idea in concept but could easily become on of those “As Seen on TV”(…)

Thursday News: A Zuckerberg becomes confused about Facebook’s privacy settings; Disposing of unwanted giftcards; an online private catalog for your books

Thursday News: A Zuckerberg becomes confused about Facebook’s privacy settings; Disposing of unwanted giftcards; an online private catalog for your books

Randi Zuckerberg Is Just as Confused by Facebook Privacy as You Are – Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, generally believes people should live their private lives publicly or at least that is how he runs Facebook with the privacy settings constantly changing and always requiring an opt in action by users to keep their information(…)

Thursday News: Rumors of an Amazon Phone; Creepy HS BBall Coach provides a first amendment dilemma; Bob Kohn argues that he is a special snowflake

Thursday News: Rumors of an Amazon Phone; Creepy HS BBall Coach provides a first amendment dilemma; Bob Kohn argues that he is a special snowflake

Exclusive: Amazon phone confirmed, could be announced tomorrow – Today is Amazon’s day to announce new products. Woo woo. (Apple will announce a new iPhone in September and reportedly a mini iPad in October. BN is said to announce new products at the end of the month). While most reports confirm two Kindles and a(…)

Tuesday midday links: lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits

Tuesday midday links: lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits

Booklamp.org is up and running. Booklamp professes  to be a Pandora for books.   It does not have much content for romances. It looks to be publisher specific.  Random House and Simon & Schuster have books and authors present but Penguin, HarperCollins, and Hachette do not.  Harlequin also seems absent. Searching Nora Roberts pulls up(…)

Create Your Own Cloud of Ebooks with Calibre + Calibre OPDS + Dropbox

Create Your Own Cloud of Ebooks with Calibre + Calibre OPDS + Dropbox

This post has been updated as of October 16, 2011.   ***** Apple appears to have pushed Google out of the ebookstore.  Kobo released an updated app with no buy link.  Google is randomly deleting Google Plus accounts.  Yet another ebook format has been announced.  I’m getting pretty fed up with the powers that be(…)

Amazon and Google’s Cloud Player: A strike against licenses?

Amazon introduced its Cloud Locker and Amazon Cloud Player and Google has introduced Google Music (beta). Both companies are offering cloud based storage for music. No big deal, right? Wrong. Music labels are concerned because Amazon and Google haven’t worked out a business relationship wherein the music labels and the artists get a piece of(…)

Thursday Midday Links: Is Google Book Settlement Dead?

Dennis Chin, the judge assigned to affirm or reject the Google Book Settlement, has been tapped to move to the 2nd Circuit judicial position, one of which was formerly held by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.      Today, the House Judiciary meeting is holding a hearing on the Google Book Settlement. Mary Beth Peters,(…)

The Benefits of Cloud Computing

The Benefits of Cloud Computing

Photo via Flickr. Until about 4 months ago, I hadn’t really grasped the concept of cloud computing. Alot of tech people would talk about it as if it were the holy grail and it was a concept used to applaud the innovation behind the Kindle.   Unfortunately, I didn’t really get it.   Cloud computing is the(…)