The Nook, From “I need” to “I’ll Pass” in a week.
So in the span of a week, the nook from Barnes & Noble has gone from zero to hero and is now hovering around, “dude I kinda look up to, a little, but not enough to want to be him”
The quick turn around was largely due to new facts coming out, like this. Turns out, the lending feature is pretty much destined to be vaporware.
You can only lend 1 book, one time, ever. That’s it, lend it to a friend, and you can lend it no longer. And of course, while it’s lent out, you can’t read it. Sure a real book works like that, but this AREN’T REAL BOOKS. It’s an eBook, the “e” allows for things that the dead tree model can’t afford.
The lending feature, much like the Kindle’s now never turned on, Text-to-speach feature is at the mercy of publishers. Which to me, from experience, means, it’ll be turned off on 95% of all eBooks. Cuz of course, why would the publishers want us to use things we purchase, in ways we like?
Matt and “The Monster”- Rock Art Brewery vs. Monster Energy Drink This is just so uncool! As if I or anyone else should need more reasons to hate big biz, corporate america. Really? Any use of the word “Monster” now is off limits?! If you use English in your name, you can’t keep people from [...]
Events, fun and why i do them
360|MAX
Adobe MAX is the annual “geek out” for those of us doing anything with Adobe technologies. It’s a huge event, costs a metric buttload, and is usually pretty over the top. It’s also hugely fun, and a great way to see folks who don’t come out for other events typically. It’s also nice to attend an event that I’m not organizing, or at least not organizing much of.
360|Conferences does an unconference at MAX, to bring some community to the event. It’s always a good time, we get some great speakers to give us some time and share what they know. It was really cool this time that we had some more interesting topics; Arduino/Flex interaction, How a rock band uses Flex/AIR and even iPhone in their performances, etc.
It was a good time.
Next time, we’ll limit talks to 30 minutes. It’s about double the sessions, but I think 30 minutes is a good time slot, we can get more great topics going.
The funnest part of my job (If I can call it that) is doing different types of events. They’re not just always the same event over and over. Even 360|Flex and 360|iDev, while super similar, and based on the same ideals, are vastly different. Then throw in Ignite, 360|FlexPress, and hopefully a Festival of Books, and it’s just a great time bringing people together!
National Comic Sans day October 1
So we have CSS Naked day (apr 9), and talk like a pirate day (Sept 19) and even Zombie Crawl day (Props to Danny!) and just to show that we need to not take ourselves so seriously all the time, I’m starting national Comic Sans day.
Yup, damn straight, National. Comic. Sans. Day.
Wasn’t gonna post about 9/11 but
I came across this iPhone app (iTunes Link) called 9/11 Numbers that simply shook me to my core. I can remember very clearly walking into my office in Orange County, seeing some co-workers in the big conference room with one of those TV/VCR carts (didn’t even know we had any) watching TV. It went down hill [...]
I WANT TO SMACK STEVE JOBS IN THE FACE! OK This shit is just funny! I know MMS is coming, but this dude is hilarious! I hope he bumps into His Steveness on the street one day. “Steve Jobs! Steve Jobs come over here!” SLAP! “That’s for taking so damn long to get MMS on [...]
Officially done with Film On The Rocks
Nicole and I went to Film On The Rocks the other night to see Ghostbusters. It was my last time.
I love the idea, I love the venue, I hate the execution.
The door’s open at 6:30pm, folks trickle in for the next 3 hours. There’s a band or two that plays during that time.
Then the Emcee, Chuck Roy yaks for a while, actually a long while, and that’s my problem with it. The time waste before showing the movie.
First we have to hear from the plethora of boring sponsors, who want to talk to a crowd who couldn’t care less what they have to say. Then Chuck yaks more, then another comedian comes out and does a bit. Last time it was funny, the time before that, was terrible.
eBook creation on the Mac – SUCKS
Since Tom and I launched 360|Whisperings, it’s been a massive learning curve. Technologically speaking primarily.
It turns out that eBook creation on a Mac is something of a… well it doesn’t seem to happen much, so the tools either aren’t there, or suck.
When we started down the road to becoming eBook publishers, I had no idea the levels of hell it was to create the myriad formats that most common eBook readers, read.
Palm – So close yet so far
So that long and drawn out story, is the crux of why Palm is likely to not be around next year. The Pre certainly won’t be. You can’t dick developers around and show them no love, and expect them to flock to your platform. You can’t air creepy ass commercials and sponsor Burn Notice, and hope that makes your device compelling.
You can’t follow Apple’s lead and hope somehow it works for you. Palm should have looked back over the iPhone’s life, at every complaint, and shortcoming, and the Pre should have delivered every single one right out of the gate. Did they? No.
I’m putting it down for all the internet to see, The Pre, and likely Palm aren’t long for this world… I’ll add one caveat. Either get a new Developer Relations guy, or take the lame chains off, and let him do what he wants, how he wants, to get people interested in the Pre, and do it NOW. I know I might as well have said, if Vulcans land and show us Warp
AT&T — iPhone Hell I gotta admit, I had no complaints with my Edge iPhone 2G, and few with my new 3GS, until the other week, when I happened to have 3 business conference calls in a day, and had to take them all on my home phone. ATTFAIL for sure. More bars where don’t [...]
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