We have developed an e-commerce service for Profile Books who do a series of books sponsored by The Economist. It is a great series with concise and highly informative coverage of key management and business topics. For some reason the title which particularly caught my fancy was The Economist Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus. I am a sucker for quick guides to gurus and key ideas. It is a very well written and clear book. The style is … Keep Reading
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The in-flight magazine may be on its last legs. In yesterday’s Guardian Media Section Conor Purcell speculates that environmental pressures and the cost of fuel will render the in-flight magazine obsolete. Emirates will soon drop its house magazine:
… Keep ReadingAccording to Emirates’ president Tim Clark, the decision to ban all onboard paper will lighten the aircraft by a tonne. “It’s 2kg per seat and 500 seats, a worthwhile saving,” he says. “We are doing it because of fuel prices and the
Google has now opened up its developing database of Knols. See the official announcement (“a knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic”), and Danny Sullivan’s helpful assessment. Danny provides a good outline of what Knol is doing and how it works. His reservation is particularly interesting:
… Keep ReadingOverall, I still lean toward not wanting Google to do this. I remain concerned that by hosting this content, it plays too much in the content owner space when its
A site release today, pepped up our search a smidgin. We now support ‘not’s’ and ‘or’s’. So you can now search for Alistair Campbell with Blair or Brown, but not talking about Iraq. This was apparently more frequent than the recent crop of New Labour memoires would have us believe:
“alistair campbell” |brown |blair -iraq:
or
a simple search string:
http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/search.do?term=%22alistair+campbell%22+%7Cbrown+
%7Cblair+-iraq%3A&issueId=2656&magazineId=377&sort=0&type=all
What is Mygazines? ….. (answer from their web site)…”Mygazines is your free place to browse, share, archive and customize unlimited magazine articles uploaded by you, the Mygazines community.”
The service appears to be in part a YouTube for magazines, and an aspirant social network. The technology is adequate to impressive: the magazines are rendered in Flash, and the user is able to mark. ‘share’, comment upon, pages and magazine articles. The system is largely automated, except that some of … Keep Reading