En bok är inte en bok. January 15th, 2010 | boken, inkasso, litteratur Skriv ut Piratförlaget vill sänka vad man kallar för “e-boksmomsen”, genom att få frågan skatterättsligt prövad. De har sålt en fil innehållande en e-bok till en privatperson och fakturerat 6 % moms i stället för 25 %. Piratförlaget sammanfattar sitt ställningstagande: Eboken är inte en nättjänst, den är en kulturprodukt. Varför skulle inte någonting kunna vara både nättjänst och kulturprodukt, samtidigt? Frågan går till de politiker som stiftat gällande momsregler.
Piratförlaget har rätt i att “teknikens utveckling har suddat ut gränsen mellan tryckt och digital bok”. Alla dessa saker kommer rimligtvis att kunna säljas som e-böcker, dagen efter att Skatterättsnämnden hypotetiskt har gett Piratförlaget rätt. Böcker massproduceras, till skillnad från nättjänster. “En bok är en bok är en bok”? Även på “nedladdade ljudböcker” vill Piratförlaget sänka momsen, från 25% till 6%. Bokmomsen kan inte diskuteras lösryckt från andra kulturyttringar. IDPF to Revise ePub Standard - 2010-04-06 12:54:43 | Publishers Weekly. Alice for the iPad. Qr6 - Uploaded by gardefjord. Approved. CrunchGear Rates the Top 10 iPad Games. What a week. We’ve dug through a number of iPad games so far and have come up with only a few that truly satisfy. Whether you’re looking for RPGs or casual, mind-numbing oblivion, the iPad has it all and here are some of our favorites.
Civilization Revolution ($12.99)- Oh Civ Rev. You’ve burned through my iPhone battery more times than I can count. I’m an absolute Civ fiend, so I was very pleased to see the new iPad version and aside from frequent crashes I think this version has a considerable leg up on the iPhone version, especially thanks to the larger screen. The automatic save system is a lifesaver because the app will – and does crash. 2K definitely needs to fix the stability issues. Fieldrunners HD ($7.99) – I spent a few sleepless nights with Fieldrunners and the HD version adds little to the tried and true tower defense formula.
Real Racing HD ($9.99) – You know a racing game is good when you can hardly steer your car through the hairpin turns. Dishonorable Mention. Google's Latest Acquisition: Plink, Mobile Visual Search Startup. Google's newest acquisition is Plink, makers of a visual search application for mobile devices called PlinkArt. The app "recognizes almost any work of art," claims the app's homepage, "just by taking a photo of it. " In addition to the visual identification aspect, Plink users can also discuss the art within the app, send images to friends or order prints of the artwork. On its own, Plink sounds like an entertaining and educational tool, but one whose real-life implementations would probably be limited to a tour of an art museum or a late-night cram session for an Art History exam.
But Google didn't just buy Plink for the art it can identify - that's just an added bonus. It's likely that Google bought the company more for the algorithm that powers the smart application and brains of those who invented it. While on the one hand, it does seem amazing that a mobile application can "see" the world like this, the reality is that this sort of mobile search experience is still in its infancy.
The Experience belongs to the User. We all like to play God. We like to imagine that the design we create is ushered into the world and all those who use it have an epiphany…they do things exactly in the way we have prescribed. They approach, use, and experience our design in the manner we envisioned, resulting in an amazing user experience. You might call this the God complex approach to UX. It is the ego-driven approach, the one in which designer knows better than user, the one in which users don’t know what’s good for them. But most people who have actually lived in a Frank Lloyd Wright house report that it’s not all that great.
No design survives contact with the user. Designers do not create experiences, we create artifacts to experience. In his book How Buildings Learn, Stewart Brand describes the static nature of architecture as an endemic problem. "Almost no buildings adapt well. Brand could as easily have been talking about any designed artifact. Young and Brilliant • Paper wood. “A reversing of a traditional... Ellora on Gowalla. Swedish law gives shelter to controversial Wikileaks site. You as an Entertainer. Thai House Wok on Gowalla. Checkin at Profiler on Gowalla. Profiler on Gowalla. BREAKING: Twitter Acquires Tweetie. Twitter has just announced that it has acquired Atebits, the company behind the popular Tweetie iPhone app and Mac desktop application. Tweetie's creator, Loren Brichter, will be joining the Twitter team as well. The app will be renamed "Twitter for iPhone" and be made free in the next few weeks.
Twitter CEO Evan Williams explained the move in a blog post: "We're thrilled to announce that we've entered into an agreement with Atebits (aka Loren Brichter) to acquire Tweetie, a leading iPhone Twitter client. Tweetie will be renamed Twitter for iPhone and made free (currently $2.99) in the iTunes AppStore in the coming weeks. Loren will become a key member of our mobile team that is already having huge impact with device makers and service providers around the world. " The move comes less than a week after a controversial blog post from Twitter investor Fred Wilson, Principal of Union Square Ventures. What's wrong with the iPad? Let's start with the lack of a clock | Technology. On the iPad, the iPod application feels busy and hard to navigate My iPad arrived yesterday afternoon via a friend in the US, and yes, it largely lives up to the hype: it's shiny, elegantly realised and above all potentially very useful.
Well, apart from a few wrinkles, which range from a mere raise of the eyebrows to an exasperated WTF? First, Apple : why on earth did you leave out the Clock app? That omission alone means I can't ditch my iPod Touch on my travels because my iPad won't wake me up. The iPod Touch has a built-in Clock app which will set off an alarm at a given time; the iPad doesn't. Sure, there are loads of third-party clock apps, free and paid-for, available via the App Store, but none of them run in the background/when the device is asleep as the native app does, which means if you want your iPad to be an alarm clock, you'll have to leave it on all night and your chosen clock running. On the subject of missing apps, what has Apple done with Calculator?
Vad ska man säga, turister asså... suck... Jag uppdaterade min bio idag. Vad tycks? Tips? Är du en duktig talare? | Sociala medier för beslutsfattare. Vi på Social Business kommer inom kort att hålla en konferens där vi kommer att gå bortom mainstreamkonferenserna inom sociala medier. Denna exklusiva konferens kommer att bjuda på insikter i sociala medier du inte hört förut. Den kommer att fokusera på affärsnyttan som så ofta glöms bort mellan alla ”häftiga” exempel på vanliga konferenser. Förutom en stor skara väldigt kompetenta marknadschefer, marknadsansvariga, VDar, Informationschefer med flera, vet vi att vi har väldigt många andra kompetenta personer som läser vår blogg och vi tycker det vore generalfel att inte nyttja den kompetensen till konferensen.
Om du är expert på ett ämne och tror att du har vad som krävs för att föreläsa på denna konferens så vill vi gärna att du hör av dig till oss. Oavsett om du är en inbiten HR-människa som nyttjar sociala medier eller någon som har fullt fokus på till exempel öppen innovation så ser vi dig gärna som sökande. Väl mött! P.S. [poll id="2"] Liknande artiklar — Simon Vikstrom.
Apple is working on its own mobile P2P payment service for iPhone and iPad. Mobile micropayments through your smartphone is emerging, and, most likely, soon to become pretty hot category. Nokia is looking how to introduce mobile payments to developing world with its Money service. Meanwhile, startups like Square and established companies like VeriFone are working on ways to bring personal mobile transactions to your iPhone, and, hopefully, any other smartphone you have in your pocket.
Well, those companies planning to make a living from their personal mobile payment iPhone app/accessory/service, better start thinking about other mobile platforms soon. Because Apple is actively eyeing personal mobile payments, as a market they want to have for themselves. At least that’s what an Apple’s patent application called “Peer to peer financial transaction devices and methods” indicates. The payments can be made by linking NFC enabled iPhones, or using the handset camera and some clever image recognition techniques. Well, it’s only a patent application for now. Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1. Thursday, 8 April 2010 We’re still in the early days of the transition from the PC era to the mobile era. Right now, Apple is winning. There are other winners right now too — RIM is still growing, and Android has grown a ton in the past year. The App Store platform could turn into a long-term de facto standard platform. That’s how Microsoft became Microsoft. I don’t think Apple even dreams of a Windows-like share of the mobile market.
So what Apple does not want is for some other company to establish a de facto standard software platform on top of Cocoa Touch. And, obviously, such a meta-platform would be out of Apple’s control. So from Apple’s perspective, changing the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement to prohibit the use of things like Flash CS5 and MonoTouch to create iPhone apps makes complete sense. Flash CS5 and MonoTouch aren’t so much cross-platform as meta-platforms. So consider how this change affects the various parties involved: Web developers: No change. Study: 52 Percent Of Bloggers Consider Themselves Journalists. According to a new study released by PR Week and PR Newswire, 52% percent of bloggers surveyed consider themselves journalists.
This is an increase from 2009’s study, when just one in three had the same opinion. However, despite this, only 20% of bloggers obtain the majority of their income from their blogs; which is an 4% increase from 2009. A few other stats caught our attention as well. When it comes to using blogs and social networks, like Twitter or Facebook, for research, 91% of bloggers and 68% of online reporters “always” or “sometimes” use blogs for research.
But only 35% of newspaper and 38% of print magazine journalists surveyed use blogs or social networks for research purposes The stats are even more interesting when it comes to using Twitter, which is often a place for breaking news and consumer trends, alone for research. 64% of bloggers and 36% of online reporters said they use Twitter as a research tool for stories. Photo Credit/Flickr/MikeLicht. Paperboy: Bridging the Gap Between Print and Online News. Swiss startup Kooaba is trying to bring the worlds of printed news and virtual content closer together with its Paperboy iPhone app. This app, which is currently only available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, allows users to take pictures of articles from a range of popular magazines and papers and then see additional content about these articles on their iPhones.
Paperboy will also make a digital version of the article available in your Kooaba archive and users can then share this article with their friends by email and on Facebook and Twitter. Note: Paperboy isn't available in the U.S. version of Apple's App Store. In the U.S., only Kooaba's app for recognizing books, DVD covers and other physical objects is currently available.
Kooaba also worked with Wired last year to make some of the magazine's advertisements more interactive. Magazines and papers can also choose to charge their users for accessing extra content through Paperboy. Via: Netzwertig. Gardefjord | TweetPhoto. HaxDay. Adobe visar upp Air | Mobilfeber.
Mobil / Mjukvara Adobe visade nyligen upp sin utvecklings-plattform Air och vad man kan tänkas få för resultat. Det är helt klart det mest välpolerade korsplattforms-verktyget jag sett visas upp på det här sättet. Med tanke på att de inte har haft tillgång till iPad speciellt länge är det än mer imponerande. Spelet Othello använder sig av exakt samma kod på de fem olika plattformarna, det enda som skiljer är sedan hur koden körs, den biten står Adobe för. Man kan ju såklart tänka sig att det förekommer en del overhead, tunga 3D-spel kanske inte är optimalt att koda i Air än så länge. Om Air tar fart så kan vi nog komma att se appar som är snudd på identiska, vilken telefon eller dator vi nu än sitter vid. Top 5 Ways to Make Your Site More Fun.
Gabe Zichermann is the author of the books “Game-Based Marketing” (Wiley, now available) and “Funware in Action” (Manning, Q3/2010). He is also the CEO of professional mobile social networking startup beamME and frequently muses about games and the world at Just like sex, fun sells. The early proof of that can be seen in the amazing success of location-based networks such as Gowalla, MyTown and Foursquare, and in the breakthrough marketing efforts of major brands like Nike, Coke and Chase.
Even finance made fun can be a winner — Mint.com's meteoric rise was in no small part due to the fun, social engagement of its approach. Ever feel elated while using Quicken? I didn't think so. The trend continues, with an ever-increasing number of startups looking to get an edge with consumers through fun. When taken together, game mechanics such as points, leaderboards, badges, challenges and levels form part of what we call a Funware Loop. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Conclusion. E-book sales in US overtake sales of audio books | theBookseller.com.
Liveblogging Apple’s iPhone O.S. Special Event - Bits Blog. Robert Galbraith/Reuters Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, unveils iPhone OS 4.0 on Thursday. Echoes of the last Apple hype cycle have not yet faded, and another begins. Today on Apple’s campus in Cupertino, Calif., the company offered a “sneak peek” into the future of the iPhone OS — the software that will likely run the next version of Apple’s iPhone, which may be released this summer. 2:31 p.m. In a question-and-answer session, Mr. Jobs confirms a tidbit of news that we reported last month in our story on the frictions between Apple and Google: that Google snapped up the mobile advertising company AdMob just as Apple was close to acquiring it. Here’s a rough transcript: “We don’t know much about the advertising stuff. 2:03 p.m. A developer preview of the new OS is available today, but users wont get to download the new OS — or buy a new device with the new OS — until this summer. Mr. And that’s it apart from some Q&A. 2:01 p.m.
Mr. Now Mr. 1:54 p.m. 1:48 p.m. Mr. 1:46 p.m. 1:44 p.m. Mr. Is This the Future of Journalism? This week marked the international coming-out party for a new media organization that could upend the sacred cows of traditional journalism. Wikileaks, an Internet-savvy investigative journalism outfit, released a video showing an American Apache helicopter open fire on a group of men, killing two Reuters employees, along with 10 other people, on July 12, 2007. "There was no threat warranting a hail of 30mm [caliber gunfire] from above," says Anthony Martinez, a former U.S.
Army noncommissioned officer who has watched thousands of hours of aerial footage of Iraq. The video, seen through the perspective of the Apache gun camera, captures a dark moment in the Iraq war. As the American airmen chuckle over the body count, it also amounts to a damning indictment of war culture. No traditional journalism organization was able to bring it to the public, as these tapes are normally classified; Reuters filed an FOIA request but never received a response.
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