“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”
― Douglas Adams
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
If unlimited access to ebooks came with my bundled premium broadband cable package I would upgrade in a heartbeat. I already watch HBOGo on my laptop, being able to stream my book to any screen in my house from TV to tablet to smartphone is just what I want. Now just add Kinect technology so I can turn the page with the swipe of my hand and I am all in.
A Jan. 1936 news item.
(No mention of how newspapers make huge amounts of money through these screens.)
Via T.J. Ortenzi via Phil Rosenthal
The year responsive design starts to get weird
“Think it’s hard to adapt your content to mobile, tablet, and desktop? Just wait until you have to ask how this will also look on the smart TV. Or the refrigerator door. Or on the bathroom mirror.”
Balance is shifting from distribution to content
Amazon’s EPIX and NBC Universal deals further their move to become a dominant entertainment broadcast channel and shows up device centric players like Apple, browser players like Google, and most of all cable providers who have to figure out how to stay in the content game.
There is no more difference between digital music, video or books. Everything is now just screen content. More an more young households are eshewing cable TV and relying on Hulu, Netflix and other streaming options. As content providers get better at making their content discoverable our need for a Google to make sense and find it diminishes, our demand on search engines are becoming much less stringent. The things we want are simply becoming much easier to find. If Amazon can make Silk work like Chrome they may just win.
It’s a Brave New World.
Just where is the line?
