Efter lidt søgen på den Engelske, Tyske og Europæiske eBay-side fandt en håndfuld Kindles,
Sony Readere, enkelte Nooks, iRex osv. Men jeg fandt også to readers på dba.dk.
En var en Nook fra Barnes&Nobles, den anden en Sony PRS-600 som det lykkedes mig at købe.
Jeg synes det er absurd at der er ikke er nogen af de Danske forlag der har startet op med at sælge
Readers, specielt Gad.dk og Saxo.dk som har startet med at sælge ebooks.

1. Men nu har jeg en reader og jeg har to formål med den.
   Spare penge på studiebøger fremover.
2. Få en lettere måde at have adgang til al det PDF materiale der bliver udleveret på universitetet.

Men nu har jeg fået min reader og det er næsten kærlighed ved første blik. Fik læst lidt i bussen
på vej til arbejde og det var meget behageligt. Jeg har selvfølgelig nogle udfordringer med at få
tilpasset medier til den osv så jeg kommer nok til at blogge lidt om den den næste tid.

EDIT: Man bliver klogere. De store online forlag har eReadere man kan købe.

Gyldendal

Gad

Underligt nok kunne jeg ikke finde nogle hos Saxo.

Tags: ebook, ebook reader, Sony, Sony PRS-600

I’m very satisfied with Outlook 2010. They really rocked the boat on that one! But today I discovered a flaw causing great annoyance. I had to check if there were any new mails a couple of times and discovered I had to go to another Tap to do it. It isn’t much of a difference, but coming from Outlook 2003 at work and Outlook 2007 at home, it really tilted the balance of the rocking boat. But all of a sudden I realise, one of the selling points was the ability to customise the Ribbon in Office!

5 minutes later I had a Send/Receive all button on my Home tab. What constituted the annoyance was actually that the interface returned to the Home Tab when I had pressed Send/Receive, so if had to press it again (not being satisfied there weren’t any mails) I first had to switch Tabs.

Well it’s fixed now and the boat rocks on… hopefully…

I’m writing an article about knowledge retained in coorporations so I’m reading An overall view of knowledge management challenges for global business by Veli Denizhan Kalkan.

So I’m thinking: is the gut feeling the manifestation of the  gap between your cognition and what you are able to express through your vocabulary?

Once upon a time I were actually an Opera user. It’s been a couple of years since then of course, but I still remember it was better to interpret valid XHTML and HTML. And the evil opponent IE which were defining the market standard. Now things have changed. IE 6 are being hunted down by pretty much any internet media society and the European Union have placed it’s large boot of a bill right i the ass of Microsoft and forced it to provide a browser choice in it’s operating system. Meanwhile IE 7 and 8s marketshare are being targeted by Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Before the choice was between Opera and IE, later when Firefox came around, it unfortunately was a greater threat to Opera rather than IE and instead of providing a broad palette of browsers competing towards an open and free market. They pretty much ate each other.

The last year and a half have defined some specific competing measurement – in specific: speed! Firefox was always faster than IE, no doubt. But then came along Chrome, and WOW it just ate both of then. Then IE said they were faster again – but they really weren’t. Firefox had a rebound and were really fast. Then Chrome knocked back and forth.

A couple of days ago  Opera 10.50 came around. And OMFG it’s really nasty fast. It’s the first time sine I switched to Chrome I consider switching to something else! But it’s just amazing! But the coolest thing isn’t actually just the speed. They’ve went to a different design, much like Chrome. But the coolest thing is actually Opera Unite. A build in application server bringing Software As a Service to a personal level where you host your own services right in your browser. They’ve been using the little one on the top of the body with this one I promise you.

Say hi to me on my fridge here (a little social application where you can leave notes to each other).

The address is: http://notebook.rubberd.operaunite.com/fridge/

Tags: browser, Firefox, IE, opera, Opera Unite, Unite

A lot of people have taken on an opinion on Google Buzz – so have I, but for most part, I don’t agree with anybody. Reports are running in, as you might have guessed, that Buzz is lame and no match to Twitter or Facebook. An argument that seems reasonable, but from my point of view it is not true. See the twitter opinion and Business Insider with a pre-review.

A couple of days ago, I had a class in Strategy and Performance Measurement. One of my classmates argued that Google lacked direction and didn’t have a uniform business strategy. If your point of view are the Mainstream Perception (MP) of Google, yes then it might seem like Google lacks a direction in strategy. The MP is something like “Hey look what we made” attitude towards new products and technology. What you should realize is that every new feature or function, such as Google Buzz, are an improvement on the Business Platform Google are building. The platform is known as Google Apps, as you might know already.

If you have tried Google Buzz, and didn’t like it – Then you should consider the business case:

Your company are using Google Apps. This means it is the primary fascilitator of communications. You are running an intranet on Google Sites, you are video chatting and instant messaging (IM) through Talk, sharing calenders, sharing documents and using their Office Application and E-mail client. Your e-mail are Pushed to your smartphone along with contacts and calendar updates and so forth. In between the E-mail and IM communication there is a gap. The E-mail are able to reach every one in your company but in a very formel and “slow” mannor. IM are fast, easy to use and not so formal but limited to a very small subset of the company. Buzz  are just as Facebook and Twitter, an agile communicator with the ability to reach a crowd and still a be a Point to Point (P2P) communicator. The difference is, it is an integrated service. Which I think i very powerful!

Google Buzz might not be a revolution to personal users. But it is yet another screwdriver (not the drink) in the toolbox towards making Google Apps a VERY serious competitor to Microsofts company IT architecture.

Why do Google have this strategy?

Well because they are pretty good at predicting the future. Since more and more communications have moved from offline communication, to inhouse hosted services and later on to cloud services. Google are pointing in the direction that the future of company communication services are Cloud based and preferrely based on their services, rather than an expensive infrastructure from Microsoft.

Tags: Communications, Exchange, google, Google Apps, Google Buzz, IT Architecture, Microsoft