"Our new app is called iBooks"
"Amazon’s done a great job of pioneering this functionality with the Kindle. We’re going to stand on their shoulders and go a little further.”
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Your prediciton: what is the main purpose of the Apple Tablet? (Apple, tablet)
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What the Apple Tablet can learn from the Failed Philips Wireless Display [Pic]
On the very day when Apple are to launch the most hyped gadget launch ever - we went digging in the creates (ok our comms room) in the hunt of this little beauty from Philips...
This was is a Windows device that, back in 2005, we developed an application for staff in Selfridges to showcase and configure contemporary furniture - it worked great for about a day (the device that is)
1) Don't give it a silly name (the Philips 100WT10P Wireless Display - just doesn't cut it). Then again I'm not a fan of the rumored iSlate name - preferring iPad
2) Don't make it 'hearing aid' beige (no chance)
3) Make sure it does not weight a ton
4) Make sure the battery life is good and you can easily replace the battery - Ah!!
Checkout the original launch site http://philipsb2b.triple-it.nl/productlaunchhome.aspx?productlaunchid=28
To be fair Philips are often early pioneers and this device is 10" the touch screen was good, we liked the thumb-wheel and stylus - perhaps a case of being ahead of its time!
I for one cannot wait for the launch as I have a sneak suspicion this will redefine more than one industry (publishing being the first).
Sunday, 24 January 2010
Tag Cloud Revelation - using tag clouds to see hidden meaning in anything
A tag cloud or word cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags or simply the word content of a site, typically used to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are normally listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color. Thus, both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. The tags are usually hyperlinks that lead to a collection of items that are associated with a tag.
They were all the rage in web projects, not so long ago - back when it was hip to covert everything as a web 2.0 project - and heralded by some as 'the' future of navigation and wayfinding. However this vogue seems to be fading on the web and just when I was beginning to forget about them I noticed the UK edition of Wired (@wireduk) magazine uses a tag cloud as a means to highlight which words and thus topics are most talked about within the pages of that edition. This caught my eye and made me actually go in hunt of a reference or two.
In a moment of 'play' I then wondered if tag clouds would be an interesting way of getting a visual-overview of any wordy information. And I started by pasting the entire content of a RFP (example 2 below)
Example 1) The entire content of a RFP (request for proposal) which helped me really see the sub-context of what was really important to them
Example 2) Words used to describe me by clients and colleagues - posted on my Linked-in profile (http://uk.linkedin.com/in/mylesikos)
Example 3) Google News Feed - a snapshot of world news articles being displayed (http://news.google.co.uk/news?um=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&q=google&cf=all&output=rss)
See what you can discover using http://www.wordle.net/create and please paste the links to any examples in the comments below or why not follow and message at Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/mylesdavidson)
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Saturday, 23 January 2010
Good enough for Stock Photography? Some of my personal snaps
What stock photography sites do you use and what advice would you give If I were to start contributing?
Friday, 22 January 2010
Just checking out the new Post.ly service. Beautiful interface, links to my posterous site, posts anywhere, tags & promise of stats = cool
This is just a test tweet/post using http://post.ly by the same 4 digital musketeers that bought us Posterous (you may well be reading this on the Posterous site now - have you got one yet? If not send an e-mail to post@posterous.com to get one now).
Today the boys have turned Post.ly into a destination site of its own, more specifically making it the latest media sharing service for Twitter - 'simples'.
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Google Checkout Store Gadget - Testing
This little widget, displaying products from www.MissyMolly.co.uk, was created in 10 mins (inc. reading the instructions) by using Google's Checkout Store Gadget.
I am no programmer and only had to put a Google Doc (spreadsheet) together and follow the steps. The cool thing is to update the products just needs me to update the spreadsheet - simples
From a business and marketing perspective I am thinking this is a really easy way to create a product-feed of, for example, your sites best sellers - that you could offer other website owners to display on thier site.
Of course you will need to incentivies the owners, but via trackable links, this too is possible (affiliate networks provide such services - I wrote about them back in 2007)
I am no programmer and only had to put a Google Doc (spreadsheet) together and follow the steps. The cool thing is to update the products just needs me to update the spreadsheet - simples
From a business and marketing perspective I am thinking this is a really easy way to create a product-feed of, for example, your sites best sellers - that you could offer other website owners to display on thier site.
Of course you will need to incentivies the owners, but via trackable links, this too is possible (affiliate networks provide such services - I wrote about them back in 2007)
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
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Myles Davidson. Managing Director.
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