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Facebook spreads news content via Notify
Facebook has launched iOS app Notify with which you can receive push notifications about news, sports, weather and other news items. Facebook´s new Notify app lets you subscribe to news channels after which you receive notifications for news items which are of interest to you. CNN, Fox, BuzzFeed and The Weather Channel are available via…
Lees meerYindo AUB: always the latest version of your ebook
Van Duuren Media, the Dutch pionier on e-publishing, has come up with another innovative idea with its Yindo AUB program. Update your Book (AUB in Dutch) gives you the possibility to download the latest version of the book you bought in the Yindo shop. Yindo book buyers were allowed to do this manually already, but…
Lees meerGoogle Maps also available offline
Google has decided to make Google Maps available offline. Users can find their way without internet connection. In an announcement on their blog Google says that 60% of people in the world do not have direct internet access. people in those areas cannot use Google maps. Thanks to the download feature this possibility is now…
Lees meerThe iPad Pro disappointment: content quality and distribution
Last week I replaced my 5 year old iPad with the new Pro. A perfect replacement, not only is it superfast, but I, the old man that I am, can read the content without my reading glasses. I am however disappointed. Not because of the technology, but because of the quality and availability of the…
Lees meerBlendle expands to include photography
Digital kiosk Blendle will also start offering photo reports. Since its start in 2014 Blendle has focused on paid articles and later on newspapers and magazines. They will now include photography in this service. On their blog director Bas van Beek says that there are so many beautiful photo reports that do not get into…
Lees meerStories on demand printer
What do people do these days if they have a little time during travelling? They check their phones, read emails, Tweet or text. French publisher Short Edition offers an alternative. In Grenoble 9 printers were installed to print short stories on demand. The highly visible black and orange printers are a meter high and offer…
Lees meerMonotype extends Eric Gill´s family
A small series of unique and stylish fonts left to us by Eric Gill (1882-1940) are still modern. A few variations to make them suitable for everyday use were missing. Monotype has filled this gap with new font families Gill Sans Nova, Joanna Nova and Joanna Sans Nova. There is now a choice of 77…
Lees meerCardboard Virtual Reality glasses
The New York Times will give out one million carton virtual reality glasses to their readers. The readers can use it to watch a virtual reality film called The Displaced. The film is about children in war zones, and is seriously newsworthy. According to the NY Times virtual reality is ideally suited to involve the…
Lees meerAdvertising on a smartphone? Be relevant, funny and captivating
Multiscreen users in the Netherlands spend about 60% of their video content watching on TV and 40% on other digital devices (smartphone, laptop, tablet), according to AdReaction: Video creative in a digital world. AdReaction is an annual survey by Millward Brown. This year 13.500 consumers in 42 countries (16-45 y/o) were interviewed about their multiscreen…
Lees meerGoogle Books does not harm copyright
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeal has decided that Google may continue digitising millions of books without payment to the authors. The case had been running for ten years. The initial verdict was also in favour of Google. Google started its library project in 2004 and has scanned 20 million books already. Users can…
Lees meerPR Professionals think press releases are less relevant
PR professionals, and to a lesser extent journalists, think that traditional PR tools such as press releases are less relevant these days. Organisations are contacted less often for fact checking. News is published and shared faster and more often online. Not just by journalists, but also by consumers and professionals in various fields. User generated…
Lees meerAiiM free webinar: how to organise, find and manage digital information
AiiM, the global community of information professionals, sponsored by HP will do a free webinar on 29 October about the organisation and management of digital information. Issues such as clean-up of records, backups and dissemination of information will be discussed in the webinar. Participation is free, register via this link.
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