Before we jump into the dangers of openness and the link to spam let’s look at Dunbar’s Number – Dunbar’s number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to [...]
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Have the Kindle 2 and the Sony Reader Touch Edition sitting side by side in front of me and can’t help wondering – What really matters? What are the core factors that determine whether an eReader is good? Well, let’s take a shot at answering that question. the Indispensable eReader functions There are two absolutely indispensable ereader functions [...]
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Oct 7th update: Was off by a month and 10 days. Kindle UK release date is Oct 19, 2009. You can preorder a Kindle UK now for $279 to get it by October 21st. Its 217 pounds ($345) after import duties, etc. Stuff TV is quoting ‘well placed sources’ on an early September Kindle UK release date – [...]
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Discovery Communications took a break from suing Amazon over the Kindle to file a patent for its own eReader. The scoop is courtesy Baltimore Tech Blog. The new Discovery eReader patent was filed February 23rd, 2009, the same day that the Kindle 2 shipped, and made public today. This adds to the 2007 patent that Discovery [...]
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