MachineMachine /stream - tagged with iphone

Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:14:46 -0700

Fascinating to see word #digital slowly replace #virtual: "Makego app blurs boundaries between digital & physical play" http://t.co/IDBngowN

Yung Jake - Datamosh

Thu, 19 May 2011 01:51:45 -0700

The Novel is not under threat from technology

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:34:33 -0700

One of the first things I did with my palm-sized glossy black pebble of the future was to download loads of free books using the app Stanza. I read The Island of Dr Moreau on a flight to Japan. I started reading War And Peace. Again. Then I downloaded an app which was a book by a writer who hadn’t been published conventionally. On his website, he revealed he’d had 14,000 downloads in three months. My eyes nearly fell out. It was the final prod I needed. I was going to make an app. It’s what Arthur would have wanted.

Going (London) Underground

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:47:00 -0700

The London Underground. Every Londoner has used it, but has everyone really seen it? The old map is looking a bit dusty. Perhaps its time for Geographic precision or maybe 3D projection. If we add bicycles to the map, is it still an underground?

5 Things Old Media Still Doesn’t Get About The Web

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:06:00 -0700

Earlier this week, the New York Times company forced the iPad Pulse News Reader app to be pulled from the App Store. The reason? It took the Times’ RSS feed and put it inside its own app.

To be clear, the RSS feed in question was a headline, a one-sentence introduction and a link to the full story on the NYT site. That’s it. Worse? Steve Jobs highlighted the app earlier during his WWDC keynote – and the NYT itself wrote a glowing review of the app just a few days before.

As mystifying…

Post volcano vapour trail

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:56:56 -0700

Mr. Daniel posted a photo:

Yorkshire in Spring

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:53:00 -0700

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Kindle and the future of reading, Nicholson Baker

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:43:00 -0700

ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one. “Say Hello to Kindle 2,” it said, in tall letters on the main page. If I looked up a particular writer on Amazon—Mary Higgins Clark, say—and then reached the page for her knuckle-gnawer of a novel “Moonlight Becomes You,” the top line on the page said, “ ‘Moonlight Becomes You’ and over 270,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle—Amazon’s new wireless reading device. Learn more.”…