Archive for August, 2007

Facebook ban is bad for business

Have you been banned from using Facebook at work? How unfair is that? More and more big companies are imposing a ban on sites such as Facebook and MySpace. The latest in the UK include Tesco and LloydsTSB. But some publishing and media companies are also pulling the plug on employee social networking – [...]

scratch-and-sniff e-books

Jon Reed | 8:17 pm 24 Aug 07 Comments 3

OK, page-sniffing blog rant alert: book fetishists, literary bathers and Margaret Atwood look away now. I hardly know where to begin with this one.
Part of me thinks it must be a hoax. But Reuters seem convinced that the age of the scratch-and-sniff e-book has finally arrived – and who am I to argue?
From the wires:
An [...]

publishers link up to the iPhone

Jon Reed | 2:22 pm 15 Aug 07 Comments Off

Could this be the iPod moment? Or just the iPhone moment?
HarperCollins announced Wednesday that it had set up a special link, http://mobile.harpercollins.com, that will allow browsers to view excerpts from more than a dozen new releases, including Michael C. White’s “Soul Catcher” and Michael Korda’s “Ike“, a biography of President Eisenhower.
“Reaching consumers on mobile devices [...]

the future is already here

Jon Reed | 8:39 pm 06 Aug 07 Comments 1

Futurology fan that I am, I’m loving the work of William Gibson – the guy who invented the term ‘cyberspace’ and the cyberpunk fiction genre. His new novel, Spook Country, is published this week by Viking.
I was also intrigued to see an interview with him in the current issue of New Media Age. And to [...]