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The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You | Edudemic. How to make ebooks apps for the Apple iPad and iPhone. Writers Forum Magazine, June 2010This article has been extended online. Ebook applications now outnumber games in Apple's iTunes store. Sean McManus reveals how you can create your own application and tap into a market of over 50 million customers. Ask a room full of writers what the difference between a book and an ebook is. Some wag will doubtless say "the e". And perhaps they'd be right. When most people think of ebooks, they think of conventional books that have just been distributed electronically and are read using an electronic device.

One format, though, is radically reinventing the ebook. Book apps have much more creative latitude than static ebook formats do. Sprouting success One author who has taken advantage of the medium's potential is Allan Plenderleith, author and illustrator of popular children's book The Smelly Sprout. He works closely with Stewart to build the app. Ravette Publishing only holds the rights to the print edition and hasn't been involved in the project. Content Curation. 20 best-kept secrets for finding content to share. 30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use.

As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, “information overload” is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the “stuff” out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche.

Let’s face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes. The demand for timely, relevant content that is specific to our unique interests and perspectives has given rise to a new generation of tools that aim to help individuals and companies curate content from the web and deliver it in a meaningful way. These new tools range from simple, application-specific types such as social media aggregators and discovery engines, to more complex, full-blown publishing solutions for organizations. Comments(65) Twitscoop - Stay on top of twitter! - Search twitter, twitter client, hot trends. Social Media News and Web Tips ? Mashable ? The Social Media Guide. Amazon Mechanical Turk - Welcome.

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