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O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies - Oct 9, 2008
New Radar blogger Brett McLaughlin is the executive editor of O'Reilly's Head First books and a Java developer-turned-author. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that media is changing the way books are …
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies - Sep 26, 2008
Last May, Tim O'Reilly posted a piece on whether or not Adobe was worried about the new threat to their dominance in the RIA space by the introduction of Silverlight from Microsoft. In a nutshell, the answer was no …
Also tagged: microsoft, flash, air, backstory, silverlight, adobeflex, book related
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies - Sep 7, 2008
Last Friday night I attended a Nine Inch Nails concert in Philadelphia with Chris Cera of Vuzit (thanks Chris for your help with this post). At 43, Trent Reznor can certainly still grab an audience by the throat and …
Also tagged: music, riaa, nin, just plain cool
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies - Aug 24, 2008
A report on the UnderConsideration blog outlines a fascinating experiment called Dear Lulu. From the blog coverage: This past July, fourteen students attended a two-day workshop at Germany's Hochschule Darmstadt …
Also tagged: lulu, just plain cool, printondemand
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies - Aug 17, 2008
The New York Times today has a fascinating profile of Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, entitled Is This The Most Trusted Man in America? The article is a wonderful celebration of the person and the spirit of the …
Also tagged: blogging, web 2 0, journalism, dailyshow, trust, jonstewart, movers and shakers
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies - Jul 16, 2008
As promised last month, O'Reilly has released 30 titles as DRM-free downloadable ebook bundles. The bundles include three ebook formats (EPUB, PDF, and Kindle-compatible Mobipocket) for a single price -- at or below …
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies - Jun 18, 2008
Ebooks are certainly nothing new for us at O'Reilly. We've offered PDFs of hundreds of our titles for some time now, and as noted here before on Radar, until quite recently Safari Books Online (our online-publishing …
Also tagged: book related
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies - Jun 9, 2008
Evan Schnittman of Oxford University Press has a fascinating blog post Looks Like a Million To Me: How I Realized that Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s E-Reader Were Exceeding Sales Estimates, which calculates the combined …
Also tagged: web 2 0, amazonkindleebookssafari
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies - May 29, 2008
Rather than liveblogging, I am twittering the D: All Things Digital Conference. Follow timoreilly on twitter. I'm increasingly finding twitter much better than blogging for sharing quick hits and links. One bit of …
Also tagged: web 2 0
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies - May 21, 2008
In light of Amazon's attempts to lock print-on-demand publishers into their own printing services, I've made a personal decision not to buy from Amazon any more. Since the site first launched over a decade ago, I've …
Also tagged: amazon