Les livres plus nombreux que les jeux dans l'Apple Store
According to Mobclix, which does mobile advertising for apps, the number of books in the iTunes store now exceeds the number of games for the first time since the device was launched, making books the largest category in the store. The numbers from Mobclix, which keeps a regular tally on the most popular apps and downloads, show that there are more than 26,000 books in iTunes, compared with a little over 24,000 games. | source : gigaom.com
Recommandé parDamien Van Achter le 03/03/10 13:55 | permalien
Google Mapplets - Google Code
Mapplets are mini-applications that run within Google Maps. You can create Mapplets that add new features or overlay your data on Google Maps. Mapplets are similar to the Maps API. The main difference is that Mapplets run on Google Maps, while the traditional Maps API is used to create maps on other websites. | source : code.google.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 16/02/10 21:22 | permalien
FT.com: Publishers fear the bite of Apple’s revenue model | Martin Stabe
"Ideally, publishers hope Apple's periodicals store will operate as seamlessly as iTunes does for music, films and television shows by offering simple, one-click purchases. But Apple's history of sharing limited consumer information with partners beyond sales volume data could prove a "deal breaker" for publishers ..." Read More... | source : www.martinstabe.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 16/02/10 13:42 | permalien
The iParanoid Scenario (by @filloux )
With the iPad structure, Apple is creating the absolute control for product, delivery and even ownership that can be revoked at will. Apple allows or rejects the application (the container), it can remove all or part of any content from its servers, and it could even remotely delete the stuff you purchased. Imagine: you go to a bookstore, spend $25 on a book that a court of law later finds illicit; a bookstore employee then goes to your place, takes the book from the shelf and leave three dollars bills on your kitchen table. Wouldn’t you be slightly uncomfortable with this? | source : feedproxy.google.com
Recommandé parDamien Van Achter le 14/02/10 17:53 | permalien
Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: HTML 5 vs. Flash
One of the biggest criticisms of Apple's new iPad, and of the iPhone, is that it does not support Adobe's Flash, a system that lets Web developers code streaming videos and interactivity into Web pages. Steve Jobs is reported to be a big booster for HTML 5, a new extension of the HTML standard that all Web pages are encoded in. HTML 5 will allow Flash-like features without relying on Flash, which is a proprietary system. Meantime, users are caught in the middle. Only a few browsers support HTML 5, and there are countless Web pages, videos, and games written in Flash already. Not to mention a legion of developers accustomed to creating media in Flash. At stake in this battle: the future of interactive content on the Web. | source : feedproxy.google.com
Recommandé parDamien Van Achter le 14/02/10 17:50 | permalien
The iPad Tweet That Enraged Steve Jobs? -- Gawker
There was inevitably some cultural friction when Apple's secretive CEO took his new iPad around to New York's professionally indiscreet media. Exhibit A is a single tweet from a Wall Street Journal editor, which purportedly made Steve Jobs go ballistic: | source : gawker.com
Recommandé parDamien Van Achter le 09/02/10 16:21 | permalien
On achève bien d'imprimer
Pour le vieux monde de l'imprimé, il y a en tous cas urgence à se défaire peu à peu de ses derniers oripeaux de papier. Question de survie, plus que d'écologie. | source : monecranradar.blogspot.com
Recommandé parSabine Blanc le 05/02/10 10:44 | permalien
L’avenir radieux de l’internet ne se passe pas du tout comme prévu
Avec iTunes, l’AppStore et maintenant sa librairie iBooks, Apple ne fait pas, en ligne, du « partage d’UGC », mais bel et bien de la commercialisation de contenus créés par des professionnels (musique, vidéo, jeux, maintenant livres) ! Et les nouveaux jouets que la firme propose aujourd’hui visent bien à accroître encore ce marché, sans se soucier plus que ça de la mise en ligne des merveilleux contenus produits par les utilisateurs… de ses propres ordinateurs et logiciels de création | source : novovision.fr
Recommandé parPhilippe Martin le 01/02/10 15:21 | permalien
affordance.info: Kind(le) of a(n I)pad : du passé faisons tablette rase.
D'un côté donc, le Kindle comme "emblématique" de l'ensemble des autres tablettes dédiées, c'est à dire se focalisant sur une pratique, celle de la lecture. De l'autre l'Ipad comme représentatif de l'ensemble des tablettes non-dédiées (smartphones compris), c'est à dire visant à englober un ensemble de pratiques (de la lecture ou visionnage de films, en passant par la musique et les jeux ou la bureautique). | source : affordance.typepad.com
Recommandé parPhilippe Martin le 01/02/10 15:07 | permalien