If you’ve thought that Amazon has been especially busy with the advent of the global pandemic, you wouldn’t be wrong. It’s on track to deliver…
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Amazon is having quite a week. A good deal of it has been focused on the alleged sextortion of Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos by The National Enquirer.…
I long ago learned to ignore nearly all 5-star reviews of books. They’re generally uncritical, more in line with a thumbs-up/thumbs-down assessment than a more…
Like many households (but not Laura’s), mine got a surveillance device smart speaker over the holidays. I like using it to play my audiobooks, which…
OPLIN 4Cast #105: The Economy, Bandwidth Limits, World Records, Library Competeition
Posted in 4cast, Amazon, Google Shared Storage, and OPLIN
1. The struggling economy: How is it affecting libraries? Economics of New Media: Pay to Play or Free? (Mashable) Libraries fight economic woes with information…
4Cast #90: Google Health, Blu-Ray, Gaming, E-Books
Posted in 4cast, Add new tag, Amazon, eBooks, games, Google, Google News, and Reference Extract
This week’s 4cast: 1. Â A Google A Day Keeps the Doctor Away. Google will begin its final phase of global domination, er, I mean personal…
4Cast #89: E-Books, Librarian Tools, Customer Service, More Green
Posted in 4cast, Amazon, blogs, desktop applications, eBooks, Firefox, Google, Internet, Library 2.0, Library vs. Internet, Photo Tagger, Playlist.io, productivity, screencasting, Second Life, Sitemap Generator, Social Networks, Tweetmeme, Web 2.0, and Xoopit
This week’s 4cast: 1.  E-Books: Point, Counterpoint With recent advancements from Google Books Library Project, Amazon’s Kindle, and others, some are contemplating the future of…
4Cast #88: Microsoft/Yahoo, New Google Views, Amazon/Audible, Going Green
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This week’s 4cast: 1. “Microsoft + Yahoo = ?” Microsoft’s bold and unsolicited $44.6B bid for Yahoo shocked many and even appalled a few bloggers. …
OPLIN 4cast #72
Posted in ALA, Amazon, eBooks, Google, Google Wave, Hunch, newspapers, and Wikipedia
This week’s 4cast: 1. Supply, Demand & Reality A new ALA report titled “Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study” finds that…
OPLIN 4cast #46
Posted in Amazon, Cinematic Internet, DMCA, DRM, Embedding, Gmail, Google Guide, Google Latitude, HarperCollins, Library 2.0, screencasting, Second Life, social network websites, Songza, and Video books
This week’s 4cast: 1. Search Inside a Book (Once You’ve Figured Out Who Published It) In an effort to defend their turf from the likes…