Tag Archive for 'amazon'

UGC gets professional print

06
Dec
07

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Christmas is coming and like many Internet addicts you are desperately searching the web for presents. Some say it is nice to go out for christmas shopping. Christmas shopping is also a fun thing to do from your computer.

Anyway, out in the street or online, finding presents that reflect your personality is always a challenge (picking out of amazon dads top 10 was never trendy …).

There is so much content available online from you and your friends: Why not use that content to do something original?

This year has seen many new services show up that allow you to turn digital content into physical form. The idea is not new: online photo printing is an old story, but the possibilities are expanding.

Have you yet started a moo cards collection? Get some funny pics and turn them into lovely, high quality, original cards.

Remember that photo book that you bought last year for your parents and that is still unwrapped? Start iPhoto ‘08 on your Mac and under a few hours you will be ordering your own “nice book” (allow a few weeks for delivery). Dont own iWork ‘08? Blurb is available for PC and Mac.

If you do not want to spend that time working on your own book, Lulu will let you search through user uploaded books and buy them (self-publishing).

Just give me a way to publish my Google Sketch Up 3D creation and I will give you a wonderful christmas!

In Case You’ve Been Hiding All Day: The Kindle

19
Nov
07

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Amazon launched today its own eBook reader, the Kindle.

With an apparently impressively easy to read black-and-white e-Ink screen, and integrated free cellular data connection to download books and connect to a selection of newspapers, magazines and blogs (you need a paid subscription for these, including the blogs!). This is a huge launch for Amazon that could redefine their entire business if the gizmo is a success.

Even though the event was a few blocks away from our NY office in Union Square, I was too busy to go (or was it that I never got an invite?) so you’ll have to trust TechCrunch’s first impressions!




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