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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Beyond Times and Arial – The New Web Safe Fonts.
Google Web Fonts now serves roughly 50 million daily requests[1], across roughly 800,000 unique websites[2]. and is growing at about 30% each month.
Namesake.com
I’ve been a member of Namesake for a while now. I met the co-founders Brian and Dan a while back when I was working in LA. We kept contact and over the years have even had occasion to party together. So when they invited me to join their new site Namesake, I joined and much to my joy, I found myself quickly enjoying what they had built. Even now, many months later, I find myself returning every day to find out everything I need to know to make myself look smarter in front of people for whom that’s important. In my business, that’s you, dear reader.
One of the things I find myself continually doing is clicking on the links members of Namesake post every day. Namesake is my de facto news source. Given that Brian and Dan co-founded and sold Newroo to News Corp a few years back, this should hardly be a surprise to me. But it is. Namesake is not packaged like a news site. But so often I get what I need to know about the world from it. News by any other name would smell as sweet.
Today I posted my first of many link rolls from what I’m learning there. I hope you get as much from it as I do.
Racing on the iPad
Did you feel that?
No, not the earthquake. The media world exploding into a 300,000 little pieces. I got a chance to test out the newest weapon in Apple’s arsenal and have put together a few posts this morning. We’re interested in developing apps as well as publishing content through the bookstore. But for productivity and gaming, it’s not too shabby. Excellent battery life and always on accessibility guarantees I’ll be carrying mine with me wherever I go. How about you? Read more to see if the iPad is right for you right now. Enjoy!
I’ll let the pictures do the talking.
The Welcome Screen
The iPad is sexy. In typical Apple fashion the “blank state” experience is what it should be. Easy to get started and enough features to whet the appetite for more. I’ve installed a few apps and will review them in the coming days. So far the product gets a thumbs up for total experience. As a gaming device, it gets two big thumbs up. As an eReader, it gets a less enthusiastic thumbs up, but a thumbs up nonetheless. As a multimedia device, two more big thumbs up. Movies, music and photos are stellar on this device.
Racing on the iPad
Turning the Page
My favorite app is the Scrabble app. You can use your iPhone or iTouch as your tile rack meanwhile the iPad works as the board you place your tiles on. It auto-tally’s the scores. You can rotate the board by remote control if you want it to face you during your turn. It plays music from your iTunes playlist. And it has a dictionary you can check your words with. Love it.
My iBook Shelf
Jason Enjoying Evil Technology
Meet my brother-in-law, Jason. He hates Apple. Doesn’t it show?
Steve Jobs with the iPad
Hi, Steve. Thanks for innovating. We love your work. But there’s just this one thing that’s irking us now. As an independent publisher who’s primary channel for sales is digital, how can I delivery our titles to iPad owners?
This much we know:
Where’s the flood?
I’m asking this because we’ve been researching this for our own book. We have new titles that will be ready for the iPad launch in 58 days. And if it takes weeks to get a book approved (in the same way it takes weeks to get an app approved) we need to have our ePub book(s) ASAP. I’m not sweating. Really. I’m sure Apple will indeed open the floodgates. But they’re already two days late.
After searching, I’m forced to lob this plea publicly: How do I as a publisher get a book in the Apple iBookstore?
iBooks App on the iPad
