Friday, December 18, 2009

Google can make you FLIP!

Google News adds 55 more newspapers and publications to its Fast Flip lineup. Take a look at this simply awesome application! May I say that I just LOVE it???? I heart you Google!

http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/

KINDLE is HOT HOT HOT

I own a Kindle and I want to make sure that it stays on top of the newly competitive E-readers.  See Article on Reuters.

Amazon says that the Kindle is the most wanted product across the company during the holiday gift season of December. And with good reason. Kindle is wonderful. It really has improved my reading experience as I can take as many books as I want in one small device. I can instantly download most books and many of the magazines that I like. I'm really happy that I was an early adopter and able to watch the market for e-readers take off and guess where it might be headed.

You may have also heard that Stephen Covey, the author of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has signed an exlusive deal with Amazon to sell two of his most successful books on the Kindle Platform. This deal will open the door for a whole new slew of articles and legal opinions (probably) on who actually has the rights to sell the content. Is it the publisher? Or the author??? But I digress. The point of this blog is that Kindle is snuffing out the other e-readers for now. As the Doors like to say, "Come on baby, light my fire..."

The time to hesitate is through

No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah

I think the lyrics apply to Kindle. Don't you? For the full article without my personal opinion see: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1719909920091218?type=marketsNews

CR: Vote for the FWA Site of the Year

Here is a shortlist of the 12 best websites chosen by Creative Review. You are invited by CR to vote for your Favorite Website for 2009.

There is a Website for each month of the year. Take a look and vote for your favorite!

People's Choice Award: http://www.thefwa.com/pca2009/

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Google's Barcode of Favorite Places

Anothe cool tool application by Google! It is something I never thought about although now that I have the information, I like it and I find it fascinating. Here you can explore the favorite places of local experts from cities around the world. And you can find out where they like to go, and why, from their own perspectives.

Favorite Places: Introducing a collection of favorite places around the world

Here are my favorite places. These are the places that shaped me into who I am today. Warning: Some of my comments might make you gag!

Thursday, December 10, 2009

5 Top Publishers Plan Rival to Kindle Format

You know I love my Kindle!!! I love to read books on it. And books only!

I do confess to reading magazines on it but it really is not as much fun as reading books on the Kindle. One of the reasons is that the Magazine format is still clumsy and does not feel as if you are really reading a magazine.

And then forget newspapers. I won't even try and I'm not about to buy a Kindle DX. I'm not even interested in seeing a demo. I'm of the generation that wants to read her newspaper articles on the Web. If I want to catch up on the daily news in print form I'll quickly check the front page at work on the Web. It'll give me an idea of what's going on around the world and then I'm fairly happy. I can do this with newspapers from other countries as well. All in one setting.

Now five top publisher are looking to create digital newspapers to rival Amazon's Kindle DX as a joint venture. I found the following article on ABC. Will it work? Will this be profitable for the Newspapers? Will the cost of newspapers go up since it's being read on a digital device?

5 Top Publishers Plan Rival to Kindle Format
by: RYAN NAKASHIMA AP Business Writer

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Mapping the Geographies of Wikipedia

This map displays the total number of Wikipedia articles tagged to each country. The country with the most articles is the United States (almost 90,000 articles). Anguilla has the fewest number of geotagged articles (4), and indeed most small island nations and city states have less than 100 articles. However, it is not just microstates that are characterised by extremely low levels of wiki representation. Almost all of Africa is poorly represented in Wikipedia. Remarkably there are more Wikipedia articles written about Antarctica than all but one of the fifty-three countries in Africa (or perhaps even more amazingly, there are more Wikipedia articles written about the fictional places of Middle Earth and Discworld than about many countries in Africa, the Americas and Asia).

For the full article and additional images go to: Mapping the Geographies of Wikipedia.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Program management meets Web 2.0

Dec 3, 2009 - By expanding the ways in which people share information and collaborate, Web 2.0 promises to open the workplace to a freer flow of ideas and spur innovation. But despite proponents’ enthusiasm, constant communication and crowd-based creativity don’t fit every situation.

See: Program management meets Web 2.0

Article by Federal Computer Week

Glossary of Project Management Terms in French, Spanish & English

Here is a URL to a great site with Project Mange,emt Terms in three languages. They are all basic terms but still very useful.

Here are some terms you are to learn:

English: Project Management, French: Gestion de Projects, Spanish: Gerencia de Proyectos
English: Planning, French: Planification, Spanish: Planeamiento
English: Activity, French: Tâche, Spanish: Actividade

And a lot more terms... Enjoy!