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Playing with Friendfeed vs. Twitter

Posted by on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 7:09 am. Comments are off.

What with the flaky nature of Twitter of late, I’ve been playing around with Friendfeed, the social networking tool that allows you to build a customised feed made up of content that friends on other collaborative sites have shared, including news articles, photos, Twitter posts, and weblog postings. Basically it is a web presence stream [...]

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Stanza: ebook reading and export tool for Mac OS

Posted by on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 1:23 am. 2 Comments.

Stanza, currently in beta, is an electronic book reading application for Mac OS which also allows you to export content for use on a variety of portable devices. It features the ability to customize the display of text in multiple column layouts or in full screen mode. Scrolling can be set to advance automatically, like [...]

Author Uses Amazon Kindle to Beta Test New Book

Posted by on Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 10:49 pm. Comments are off.

ReadWriteWeb has an interesting post about an author, Daniel Oran, who is using Amazon.com’s Kindle ebook device and sales platform to fine tune his book before publishing. Oran is allowing Kindle users to download his latest draft of Believe for 99¢. The author is using the Amazon discussion and review areas for readers to provide [...]

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