Friday Digital Flames
A new post from the team at The Furnace that will occur every Friday on bits and pieces from around the digital world.
Since the internet started, the big question has always been, ‘will it ever totally replace print?’.
While email has ironically created more paper-based printing in offices, the internet is actually doing a pretty good job of closing down newspapers around the world. But the final death knell of print may just be the Kindle reader and Google’s effort to digitise every book in any library that will let it in. But will it be the same holding a Kindle-like device in your hand reading a screen instead of a book where you can flick the page? Is this it for a whole industry of bookshelf manufacturers? Only time will tell…but I wouldn’t mind a Kindle now to help me work it out!
WHAT IT IS: A replacement to e-mail? Well, that’s an ambitious goal, but it’s the idea behind Google Wave. It’s what you’d get if you married e-mail with instant messaging with a wiki.
Microsoft wheeled out its answer to the iPhone today with the launch of a new version of its mobile operating system and an iTunes-style marketplace for smartphone applications.
Adobe’s next version of Flash supports Windows Mobile, Google’s Android, Palm’s webOS and RIM’ BlackBerry platforms. Missing from the list: Apple’s iPhone.
What is social optimisation? For me, it’s about how you structure your business in a way that increases engagement and participation.
New rules modernize the agency’s guidelines on disclosing “material relationships” to account for the rise of social media.
HEY say it’s a man’s world but it seems social networking is a woman’s domain. Females outnumber guys 2-1 across a host of websites, and more than half of Facebookers and Twitterers are women, informationisbeautiful.net figures show.
More next week!
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Is email 2.0 what you get when you mix regular email with cream cheese?