Mashable!:
Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked for your favorite news reader.Is your favorite app or service not represented in the list? Let us know in the comments! And to make sure y (Read More)
Mashable!:
In the month or so since Twitter started rolling out its Twitter Lists feature, a number of web and Adobe AIR based clients have added support for it.However, we haven’t seen any native Twitter apps support Lists. Today Realmac Software released Socialite Beta 3 for Mac OS X, including, among other enhancements — basic list (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Writing a book will never be easy, but FastPencil's mission is to make things easier for authors by bringing this process online and to collaborate with others. FastPencil takes writers from idea to published book. The service offers features for collaboration, editing and design, as well as professional consulting services (Read More)
Mashable!:
Brizzly is a web-based Twitter and Facebook client that has been gaining some momentum and buzz over the past couple months. It has some slick features like being able to view photos and videos in-line in your Twitter stream, threaded DMs, and built-in photo uploading. It also recently added support for Twitter Lists. Ho (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
IntroAmazon KindleBarnes & Noble nookSony Reader Daily EditionIREX DR800SGIntroGRAND Flash Album Gallery Skins for GRAND FlAGallery developed by CodEasily.com - Flash Templates, WordPress Themes and WordPress pluginsThe Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed..We’re only about five weeks away (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
An anonymous tipster send us in this image of an e-reader running Android OS and explained that it came from a company that has never been in the tablet/e-reader business. Interesting…I suspect this is some sort of music device for composers/performers because of all the musical notes on the top of the screen and some thing (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
I point you in the direction of Business Insider, which has compiled a list of knock-off products that’s worth your time. It’s not just the typical, Chinese iPhone wannabe, either. Like, nalencia oranges? Never heard of those. Dolce & Banana? I might be able to afford that. And, hmm, that looks an awful like the Amazon Kind (Read More)
New York Times:
E-readers like Amazon’s Kindle have caught on with the small set willing to buy a device just for reading. But pretty soon, most of us will read books — or at least parts of them — on our ubiquitous smartphones. Forexample, Shortcovers, a Toronto-based company, has created free reading apps for the iPhone, BlackBerry and Pa (Read More)
TwitLinks:
If you already use Internet Explorer but haven’t upgraded to the latest version yet, there are plenty of reasons to do so. But perhaps none is as adorable as the following endorsement from none other than the Smoky Mountain Songbird herself, Dolly Parton. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Vook is a new company that's come up with a method for blending text and premium video to create an interesting mobile multimedia experience around popular literature.It combines the (relatively) old skool readability of a Kindle with the engagement of a YouTube series, all wrapped in the delicious flavor of a usable, inter (Read More)
CNET News.com:
Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison say they won't use Amazon's e-reader in their classrooms until it's more accessible to blind students. (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
Despite the fact that the Kindle has been suggested as an almost perfect alternative to traditional textbooks, some schools have been reluctant to embrace it. This is due to a design issue that makes accessing the audiobook function somewhat difficult for the blind.The Kindle’s new read-aloud feature shows great promise for (Read More)
ABC News:
Two universities say they won't use Kindle until it's accessible to blind users.
Disabled - Education - Accessibility - Web Design and Development - Obesity. (Read More)