I swear I will scream if I have to read one more comment that mentioned how Amazon's Kindle Fire is "just as locked down" as the iPad, like that's a bad thing. Seriously, people…do you complain that your Microwave uses proprietary parts? That you can't run arbitrary programs on your toaster? Seriously?
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ass=”proflinkPrefix”>+Kevin Kelly, riffing off of Arthur C. Clarke: "This is the futurist's dilemma: Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. Either way, a futurist can't win. He is either dismissed or wrong."
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The Technium: The Futurist's Dilemma
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My post summarizing yesterday's Amazon Kindle announcements, with some thoughts on how it effects libraries.
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Ready, Aim….Fire! | ALA TechSource
Submitted by Jason Griffey on September 28, 2011 – 10:36pm. That explosion you heard today? That was the sound of a thousand heads hitting a thousand desks over at Barnes & Noble HQ today as Amazo…
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Head over to the ALA TechSource blog to see my take on the new Amazon Kindle announcements. The new models announced yesterday, along with pricing, are:
There’s lots more at TechSource, but the pull-quote from the article is probably:
For libraries, however, with the exception of cheaper cost-per-device you want to provide…well, nothing really changes. Amazon is still providing books at the publisher’s set cost that are licensed in such a way that limits the ability of libraries to circulate them (the books, not the devices). The Kindle/Overdrive deal doesn’t change at all…you can just buy a Kindle to circ to patrons for $40 less than you could yesterday. But the technological hurdles for our patrons on the user-experience front as well as the backend limitations of the DRM provided files are still the same as ever.
Disney AppMATes: The New Mobile Application Toys for iPad (by DisneyLiving)
Here’s a new concept in iPad interactivity from Disney…toys that provide unique identifiers to the screen (I’m assuming via some pattern of capacitive dots on the bottom of the toy) and thus allows for custom interactive experiences. Very clever, and the general idea is brilliant. Storytelling with an added dimension for the child to interact with.
She's not even 4, and she begged me months ago to try a small one of these in a mall. Now she's convinced that they are the best things on earth and she must do them anytime there is one in sight.
She's awesome.
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Really interesting take on design choices for devices…going to have to think about this for a bit.
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Hands Per Device (HPD)
Hands-per-device, or HPD, is an alternative approach to efficiently designing interactive content and applications for a today's multi-platform ecosystem.
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An absolutely beautiful video that shows off the place I live. Watch it in HD if you can, it’s worth it.
