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Merry Christmas from Eton Digital 25th December, 2009
Check out this great video on e-magazines of the future… 20th December, 2009
Having been discussing the potential delivery formats of the future for the newspaper and magazine industry on this blog a few days ago, I thought I’d follow it up with a quick link to a conceptual video made by design collective, BERG, on e-reader style magazines of the future.
Check it out for yourself over on Vimeo – the piece represents great work I think, particularly because of the emphasis on retaining some degree of physicality in the experience of accessing magazine content, which is something that the peeps over at BERG seem to have really thought about.
Indeed they go into issues such as the function of the magazine cover, and how this important feature works along lines which have little…
Time running out for the humble SMS as iPhone apps steal the show? 20th December, 2009
While reading a recent Techcrunch piece on Blipr (free iPhone app that enables messaging with other iPhone users), I couldn’t help but fear for the fate of the humble text message as we know it. If we can safely assume that handsets like iPhones are the future (surely in four or five years time they’ll be as everyday as colour screens on mobiles are now), then it’s only a matter of time before everyone has a mobile device with extensive app options for messaging via the internet connection of their device, rather than using more expensive SMS options.
Whatsmore, even if the cost of using the SMS format falls – it still seems unlikely that it could compete with the much cheaper cost…
Bye bye to Guardian tech coverage as we know it: hello to Guardian tech iPhone app (£2.39)… hmm coincidence? 18th December, 2009
Well it seems one of my favourite sources of information and debate on web and technology issues online is closing down – Guardian Technology section. While print features will still continue in a slightly adjusted format and many of the key writers will continue blogging, the main section itself will cease to update with new info by the end of this year. It seems therefore like a good opportunity to say goodbye to the section, and a well done to those that have made it so useful and interesting over the 26 years it has been running.
One of the ways that you can continue to access the service in its full glory however, even after the conventional online and print sections cease…
MIT team wins tech challenge and $40k – and US gov’t possibly wins even more… 7th December, 2009
Just a quick thought on the Darpa social networking challenge which took place on Saturday (a puzzle set by the US gov’t with a $40k prize) and was won by an MIT team in under nine hours, well short of the nine day time limit. The task was to discover the location of 10 large red weather balloons which had been released into the lower atmosphere across the US.
Competitors were asked to find the location of the balloons using the internet and social networking tools by Darpa, the Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, because they wanted to learn more about how such tools could aid ‘problem solving’.
Now call me slightly sceptical, but what I suspect has happened is that MIT…