An e-mail missive landed in my inbox and, spam though it were, it caught my interest, since, trumpeting “Amazon Kindle is back in stock!”, meant that this was either a ‘spin’ by Amazon.com skipper Jeff Bezos and his marketing team or, a landslide trend a-la iPod/iPhone. So I checked the wireless and found the story [...]
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“Amazon Kindle is back in stock!”
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, NarrativesTags: Amazon Kindle, amazon.com, Digital copies, Digital Publication Distribution Agreement, Digital Text Platform, eBook, Jeff Bezos, Kindle, wireless reading device
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A cigar for monsieur Jules Verne
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, NarrativesTags: Adobe Integrated Runtime, amazon.com, association mantra, Black Swans theory, Carolyn Kotlas, ContentGuard, Data Cloud, Data Mining, Distributed Storage, Jules Verne, MIT Technology Review, MTR, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, surprise modeling, TL INFOBITS, traffic forecasting
In the latest edition of TL Infobits, Carolyn Kotlas mentions a Special Report on MIT’s Technology Review, listing 10 Emerging Technologies for 2008. Unlike similar year-start hacking pieces one sees around, the MTR drives a message filled with chutzpah and visionary élan — “Technology Review presents our list of the 10 technologies that we think are [...]