Best links - week 50

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2009-12-10

A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Photo by Flickr user This Particular Greg, CC licensed

Kindle Fantasies Are Running Wild -- But, For Now, Amazon Is Losing Its Shirt

While eReader sales may experience huge growth in the coming years, many underestimate the losses companies like Amazon will need to weather before selling e-books becomes a meaningfully profitable business, writes TBI Research.

Apple to launch tablet in spring 2010

Reuters, All Things Digital, and editorsweblog.org, among many others, report that an Apple tablet could be released as early as March or April next year; all according to Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner.

Says Danah Boyd, Leverage the Web's Most Disturbing Content

At the recent LeWeb conference, fantastic Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd talked about the fact that negative and disturbing web content can drive change. ReadWriteWeb has the full story. Bonus: Watch Danah Boyd's talk on Identity and Perception at Supernova last week here.

7 Technologies Shaping the Future of Social Media

Old Mashable article, yet interesting. Arduino, RFID, and augmented reality are some of the technologies that JPMH's Mike Laurie believes are shaping the future of social media.

Nicolas Sarkozy squares up to Google in books dispute

According to the Telegraph, France is to embark on a mass book digitization project, in order to prevent what President Sarkozy described as a "friendly large American company taking away its digital heritage".

Bringing the Future into Focus: Towards an Integrated Digital Content Proposition

Capgemini's recent report on digital media delivery in the US and Europe.

eMarketer Weighs In on 2010 Trends: Social Media & Paid Content

eMarketer's analysts provide their view on the coming media and online year, 2010. Apart from Social media, topics such as E-commerce and Mobile, Online advertising , and UK & Europe (sic!) are covered.

For Online Teens, Content And Social Interaction Are Inextricably Linked

Forrester Research has published a new report on teen media behavior trends. According to the report, TV is still the main media channel for teens.

In Animated Videos, News and Guesswork Mix

New York Time's story on Next Media, a Hong Kong-based media company that simulates news and gossip in animated videos. An animation of Tiger Woods' recent car crash is one of the latest.

Apple's Game Changer, Downloading Now

Yet another NY Times story on the Apple App Store. TechCrunch provide comments.

Google Goggles visual search application is scarily impressive

Google's new AR app for Android - Goggles - impresses the tech crowd; among them examiner.com's Adam Mills. Bonus: ReadWriteWeb has the full list of new Google features, recently made public at a demo event at the Computer History Museum.

The Atlantic Will Sell Short Stories on Kindle

A new exciting step in the world of eReaders: starting on Monday, Amazon will sell two short stories through its Kindle store.

Google joins forces with newspapers for 'Living Stories' feature

Together with the New York Times and the Washington Post, Google is introducing "an experimental way of presenting news online", writes the Guardian.

Top 10 Real-Time Technologies of 2009

ReadWriteWeb continues to summarize 2009 by listing their favorite websites, services and products. Most interesting lists, apart from real-time technologies, are top 10 Internet of Things and RSS Technologies.

More lightweight:

15 Failed Predictions about the Future (Oddee)

The 100 essential websites (The Guardian)

Crowdsourcing seems to work. My Starbuck's Idea has generated 50 launches to date