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The World Today joins the shop:

• Sapphire mining.
• Jacob Zuma.
• What are we doing to our forests?

• T of C
• Wrestling
• Reviews

1. Apple’s multi-touch interface will spread from the iPhone and enrich the way we use personal computers (Microsoft will introduce something similar).
2. The Google phones (Android) will show, once and for all, that we do not need dedicated eBook readers, and Exact Editions’ magazines will be as easily read on Android devices as on iPhones.
3. Safari and some other browsers will offer resolution independent imaging, so that photos or digital editions can be easily resized to fit the

David Hepworth, whose day job is at Development Hell, writes a well-informed but sometimes rather jaundiced column on the magazine business for the Guardian. This week’s column is typically bleak on the industry’s prospects for 2008 and it includes this comment:

The chief executive of one big publisher of women’s weeklies told me that he had given up pretending with investors and was prepared to confess that he could not see a way that his company would ever make

Yesterday Google announced (see Udi Manber on the Googleblog) that it was developing and supporting a Wikipedia-like network of Knols which will provide us all with authoritative, collaboratively-authored, information resources. Here are some enthusiastic responses from John Batelle and Peter Suber.

Amazon announced that it was putting SimpleDB its enterprise-scale cloud-based database into private beta. Here are some enthusiastic responses from Nitin Borwankar and Erick Schonfeld.

Google and Amazon are two terrific companies. These both look like important … Keep Reading