TheWayoftheWeb

What a week – mostly spent in my case preparing for the launch of six new digital and mobile applications on four platforms on the same day!
The list is:
Absolute 80s iAmp, Absolute Classic Rock iAmp and dabbl iAmp for the iPhone
The Absolute Radio iAmp Widget for websites, blogs and social networks.
The Absolute Radio Player for [...]

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In case Amazon needs some help shifting a few more Kindles, I’ve done the kind thing and provided them with the content you can read here for free. And it’s available for a small fee after a 14 day trial.
Treat your Kindle to TheWayoftheWeb.
In all seriousness, I’m intrigued to see whether there’s a paying marketing [...]

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I’ve probably spent as much time thinking about the future of print magazines in the couple of weeks since I left the magazine industry as I did when I was in it!
The reason is that newspaper consultant/critic Jeff Jarvis recently asked ‘Are magazines doomed?‘ in an article inspired by the closure of Portfolio magazine just [...]

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So Amazon has bought Shelfari. The interesting thing for me isn’t Shelfari’s innovative User Interface, but the business strategy that led to the purchase by Amazon. It’s a strategy that has also included buying AbeBooks, a marketplace for used and rare books. Which happens to own 40% of Shelfari competitor LibraryThing! Promotion of the Kindle [...]

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