How do you dramatically increase the number of people using a privacy feature in just a few months? Apparently, just by putting it somewhere they can find it. A new study shows that more than 6 percent of users of the newest version of Firefox are now selecting the “Do Not Track” privacy option, probably because it’s much easier to find than on the previous […]
What if a waiter handed you your meal, hot and fresh, the instant you ordered it? What if the elevator doors opened onto the eighth floor the instant you pressed the eighth floor button in the lobby? What if a web page appeared in your browser, loaded in its entirety, the instant you clicked on a search result?Well, you might have to wait for Instant Restaur […]
Posted by Michael Bolognino, Product Marketing Manager (Cross-posted from the Google Voice Blog) Keeping in touch with family during the holiday season can be challenging for anyone, but it’s especially difficult for military families with loved ones serving around the country or overseas. Gmail’s built in video chat and free calls to the U.S. and Canada can […]
Ed Nawotka, the editor of the Frankfurt Book Fair’s online publication “Publishing Perspectives”, is running a series of pieces responding to his question “what was the most dramatic event in publishing in 2010?” Here’s the answer from The Shatzkin Files. The most dramatic event in publishing in 2010? That’s easy. It was the face-down between five of the six […]
As much as the idea of enhanced ebooks brings the sexy to publishing, it doesn’t really do much for most of the books published. Enhanced, enriched, transmedia, multimedia…these are ideas best applied to those properties that lend themselves to multimedia experience (or, ahem, the associated price tag). While many focus on the bright and shiny (and mostly un […]
Michel Houellebecq Back in September — as reported on MobyLives — Michel Houellebecq caused a stir when he admitted that his Goncourt-winning novel La carte et le territoire included passages he’d lifted verbatim, without attribution, from Wikipedia. But he said that it was “ridiculous” to call copying text from the “anonymous compilers” of Wikipedia plagiar […]
Here’s an unexpected cross-promotion: Monster.com is asking jobseekers to submit questions about jobs and the economy they’d like to have answered by the White House. The most interesting questions…will actually be answered by the White House. Starting yesterday and through Sunday, post questions on Monster’s facebook page. The ones with the most “likes” or […]
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