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Total Eclipse of the Heart (translated)

This was too funny to pass up. Just watch it, it’s worth it.

The Kindle needs an iTunes app

kindle.amazon.com comes close, allowing you to manage your Kindle library (except you can only see it, not control/change anything) and see your annotations… on purchased content only. Content you’ve put on the device is notably missing. Meaning annotations you’ve placed on ebooks you loaded yourself are still tricky to retrieve/make use of and only available on the Kindle itself.

360Flex Indy, done

It was nice for Tom and I to share that InsideRIA, InsideMobile, and 360|iDev are in full force effort mode, coming in rapid succession this summer, starting in July. We’ve partnered with O’Reilly for the first two, and that’s crazy exciting. Tom and I have been working with our Pal Steve at O’Reilly on this idea since mmm well it probably started on the Ebay Town hall patio at the first 360|Flex, yeah it’s been a while in the making. The partnership should really open some door’s for O’Reilly and 360|Conferences.

Ok V looks bad ass!

I gotta say the cast of characters looks good too, though I recognize very few of them, so I’m guessing they’re not staying with the canon from the original show, kind of a bummer, since Donovan was bad ass for a photo journalist!

Ignite Denver 3 Lineup

I posted the line up for Ignite Denver 3 on the Ignite Blog, but wanted to post here too. Nicole and I went to check out the Irish Snug the other day and meet with the Manager. Very impressed with the Snug. I know the single biggest problem with past Ignites Denver has been the venue, and hopefully I’ve made it clear, it’s an experiment. Denver is too big and too cool a place to settle on a college classroom, when there’s so many great places. Unfortunately that also means we try some ‘less than cool’ places. I think the Snug will make amends for the last two venues!

How Big is the Freakin’ Enterprise

I went and saw a sneak preview of Star Trek last night (possible spoilers ahead, but only about scale)

The first time the question came up wasin the beginning when a ship that looked more or less like enterprise without nacelles was attacked. The crew escaped, in shuttles. Lots of shuttles, from a hanger deack that looked like the inside of an aircraft carrier. From the Commercials we know that Jim Kirks dad saved the crew, all 800 of them. 800? Enterprise had a compliment of no where near 800. So as to secure my geek cred for another year I’ll point out that in the original Pre Abrams Canon teh crew compliment of Enterprise (TOS and Movies) was in the 430 range.

A big screen Kindle? Not interested or interesting

For newspapers and college texts. What I don’t get is why does it need to have a larger screen? Newspapers are larger physically than books, yes that’s true. College Text books range from paperbacks, to heavy ass bug squishers, yes that’s true too. But we’re going digital, so why should the form factor mimic the old analog model?

Newspapers are arrayed in columns, which fits the Kindle form factor nicely. Select a column to read, scroll through it, go back the TOC and select a new column. Why would I need a larger screen for that? To display two or three columns? What’s the net benefit of that?

Text books are just books, they read from page to page and usually have lots of pictures and graphs. I can say, a diagram would be easier to appreciate on a larger screen, since the Kindle 2 shrinks the graphic to fit it’s screen. Larger complex graphics may not work well for that. Since the new “Kindle DX” isn’t color, I can’t really see it being better for images, than the current model.