Friar eBook Framework 1.0 How to publish your content to Google Currents In today’s technology themed post I’m going to explain how to publish content to Google Currents. First though – what is Google Currents? Google Currents is a new product from Google. It’s an application for smartphones and tables running either Android or iOS which allows you to consume content offline in an elegant way – much like Flipboard already does for iOS devices. Google Currents main advantage over a traditional RSS reader is the fact that you can pull content from all sorts of different sources, such as a twitter feed or website, and present it all to your readers in one neatly packaged application. Google Currents launched with a heap of big name publishers all on board, ready for consumption. To complete this walkthrough you are going to need a Google account. Finally, you’ll also need to be using Google Chrome, as Google Currents Producer doesn’t, as of writing, support other browsers (thanks to commenter Rich for pointing this out!). Getting started with Google Currents
FastPdfKit Treesaver.js Google Currents: Publishing Platform to Marry Magazines and Mobile | Wired Business Sample image of Currents Producer. Courtesy Google Mobile blog Thursday, Google finally launched its long-rumored magazine-style publishing platform for tablets and smartphones. It’s called Currents, and it’s available now in the U.S. for both Android and iOS. In development, it was code-named Propeller. It turns out that while Currents contains pieces of all of those, it’s probably thought best primarily as a platform for established and independent publishers to quickly develop magazine-style touchscreen layouts for news stories and other content. “We felt there was an amazing amount of great online content that was not being displayed well when we tried to access it on our phones and tablets,” Google’s Mussie Shore told Andrea Spiegel at Forbes. Think of it like Blogger and Blogspot — just for the age of tablets and smartphones. Google is launching with more than 150 partners, including newspapers, magazines and blogs, each of which is producing one or more “editions” for Currents.
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Leanpub Dikaios CLOUD ACCESS Digital Publishing From Book Oven to PressBooks, Hugh McGuire Shares His Startup Story Hugh McGuire is a well known Montreal entrepreneur. In fact, he’s known all over the world. Hugh is the founder of LibriVox, the largest catalog of audio books from the public domain. Like with most startups, things at Book Oven didn’t go as planned. Hugh’s story is a testament to perseverance, learning, pivoting and just how hard it is to build a successful startup. NextMontreal: What is PressBooks? Hugh: PressBooks is a simple book production tool. PressBooks is a reinvention and focusing of some of the ideas that went into BookOven.com, which we started building in late 2008 (!). NextMontreal: Are you the only founder? Hugh: Yes. NextMontreal: How did you get from Book Oven to PressBooks? Hugh: We made lots of first-time start-up mistakes with Book Oven, and I hope PressBooks comes from learning some of those lessons. bookoven.com was getting no traction, and we were burning too much money. Here are some mistakes we made with Book Oven, that we’ve tried to address with PressBooks.
The top 10 ways to create digital magazines | .net magazine If you're used to visiting netmagazine.com every day, then you'll notice something a little different about the site you're looking at right now. That's because .net magazine, the print publication that's been the web industry's bible since 1994, is now publishing all its online content via Creativebloq.com. UPDATE: We've migrated around 250 of 1,800 old articles. More are coming online every day. Where to buy .net magazine The print title remains unaffected - to buy a copy, head here: What's Creative Bloq? Creative Bloq is a multidisciplinary site for designers and creatives of all types. So where can I go for my daily fix of web news/inspiration? Stay right here! How do I filter out the other stuff? If you want to view general web design articles, then use the web design tab in the nav. In short, at Creative Bloq we're addicted to design - and we're really happy to have you on board.
publiyou™ . The first social-publishing platform for tablet devices. Threepress Consulting Inc. Free education: Learning new lessons TOP-QUALITY teaching, stringent admissions criteria and impressive qualifications allow the world’s best universities to charge mega-fees: over $50,000 for a year of undergraduate study at Harvard. Less exalted providers have boomed too, with a similar model that sells seminars, lectures, exams and a “salad days” social life in a single bundle. Now online provision is transforming higher education, giving the best universities a chance to widen their catch, opening new opportunities for the agile, and threatening doom for the laggard and mediocre. The roots are decades old. In April two of Mr Thrun’s ex-colleagues, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, launched a rival, Coursera, with $16m in venture capital. Republic of Letters The trend stretches far beyond America. Individual academics have MOOCs too. One spur is economic and political pressure to improve productivity in higher education. MOOCs are more than good university lectures available online. Spires not wires