Crisp images and text in grays and whites are easy to read, and with just a little lag, scroll from page to page easily. While it isn’t ready yet, ultimately you will be able to add notes and sketches to PDFs, CAD drawings, spreadsheets and text documents. The documents will synch from a computer via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or a wired connection. Lithium ion batteries power the display. An obvious upgrade in future versions would be a color screen.
Check out the video where Richard Archuleta, CEO Plastic Logic demonstrates their electronic reader aimed specifically for business users.
Everytime I go into SlideShare.net, I enjoy exploring the latest presentations. There is a wealth of knowledge and information in there from top minds.
Here is one I found today from Stephen Collins, a knowledge economy and knowledge work consultant, web strategist, information architect and social computing evangelist.
My presentation from the Office 2.0 Conference. It’s a discussion on the changing nature of knowledge workers and how their organisations can help them be better at their jobs and more productive.
I was using Flickr the other day to upload and organize some pictures I took over the 4th of July weekend, and it got me thinking about how banks and credit card companies should be using tagging, and effective use of Ajax, to super-power their standard web-based service applications.
So, that got me thinking about what if a banking company provided me with a real easy way to categorize all my checking account expenses, if it could remember previous tagging (eg. all Wal-Mart purchases should be tagged “groceries”) and used a easy-to-use Ajax interface just like what Flickr uses. Then, what if it let me create “envelopes” or categories which I could then “link” to each incoming expense. The idea is to create an electronic version of an old fashioned envelop budgeting system. The more data I inputted, the more it would learn and remember, making it easier and easier to manage my expenses.
Tagging through an Ajax interface is such a powerful way of organizing data, and I sometimes find the archival systems on my banking web-interface to be limiting. I really don’t do much with my bank website, and whenever I need to further organize my finances, most people depend on other software. I suspect that an easy way to create barrier of entry for competitors is simply to provide banking customers with an easy-to-use and simple money management tool. I would bet this would be particularly attractive to the coveted college student demographic, who are getting their first credit cards and who spend a lot of mom & dad’s money.
Earlier, I wrote about a mystery movie trailer I saw before the Transformers movie. It turns out it may be a part of a complex game-based buzz-marketing technique called Alternative Reality Games.
The trailer reveals it’s for a 2008 Paramount film from wunderkind producer J.J. Abrams (“Felicity,” “Alias,” “Lost”), and virtually no other details, so we’re left wondering: What’s the name of the movie? Who’s the villain? What freedom-hating beast(s) — HulkGodzillaKong? the Cthulhu? Taliban evildoers? — would decapitate Lady Liberty?
Alternate-reality games, for those unfamiliar with the genre, are perhaps best illustrated with an actual example: Imagine you find a Web site. The owner says it’s been hacked and she asks the online world for help. People search the site and find corrupted data files, and a countdown to the year 2552. The site is like many small sites that run into tech problems and need help.
Except the site is fake. The woman is fake. Stay with us here: Her entire world is a fictional creation, a web of fake sites and fake blogs, with more and more mysteries slowly unraveling, as online participants decrypt codes in the corrupted data files. As it happens, 2552 is the year that an alien horde invades Earth in the Xbox video game series Halo. Indeed, the entire fictional world was part of an alternate-reality game called I Love Bees — promoting the 2004 launch of Halo 2 and deepening the mythology of the Halo world — created by a firm, 42 Entertainment, devoted exclusively to the creation of “immersive entertainment.”
In keeping with the vastness of the “Spider-Man 3″ franchise, Sony worked with Google Earth to bring the superhero’s Manhattan world to fans around the globe with a “Spider-Man 3″ layer for the popular mapping application.
The “Spider-Man 3″ layer takes users on a virtual tour of the city, complete with detailed imagery, popup windows for the movie’s more recognizable locations and still photos from the film.
John Edwards sent out an email yesterday promoting an “emergency” ad protesting President Bush’s veto of the Iraq war bill. The ad, featuring an array of Americans saying “it’s time to end the war,” was uploaded to YouTube (of course), with a twist: Edwards asked his supporters to upload videos of themselves saying, “we the people” in response to the ad. TechPresident’s Steve Garfield wrote that ” This makes it very easy to participate and collaborate with the campaign to send a message to Washington. Anyone with a webcam can post a video response. People are already discussing the ad’s merits, in the comments, on YouTube.” Check out all of the responses; it’s a refreshingly new way to engage people with political advertising. I wonder if this has anything to do with Joe Trippi coming on board…
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