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Software EBook Highlights from CES 2010

Software EBook Highlights from CES 2010

I didn’t attend CES but I did read as much as I could about the digital book technology that was displayed there. Not everything that is shown at CES will ever come to market. Some of what is displayed are prototypes, working and sometimes non functioning. Some of the items displayed are simply concepts. What(…)

Social Networking for Readers

[poll id="141"] There are broad based social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and maybe even Twitter and then there are speciality social networking sites like LibraryThing, Goodreads, Shelfari and even Readerville, which I signed up for an then promptly forgot about. What about you? Do you participate in these sites and if so, which ones.(…)

12 of 28 Employees Axed at LiveJournal: Start Backing Up Now

According to Gawker, LiveJournal has fired 20  12* of 28 employees. The company’s product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers � which speaks to a website to be left on life support. If you haven’t backed up your LiveJournal articles, it might be time to do so.(…)

Bloggers Good Predictor for Sales

A new study indicates that bloggers and social networks could have a direct impact on album sales. The research indicated that there was a direct correlation between the amount of “chatter” prior to the release of an album and its eventual sales. The more chatter, the better the album sold. Based on the volume of(…)