First Look at Blio, Ray Kurzweil’s Tablet-Friendly Ebook Format [Ereader]
Blio, officially debuting next week at CES, lets you read your ebooks as they’re intended to look on paper. Clearly, Kurzweil is signaling his choice of tablets over e-ink, and his first shots are definitely persuasive.
With apps planned soon for the iPhone and PCs, Blio’s cross-platform functionality makes it a natural fit for something [...]
While Sacks Plays Poker, Yammer Burns
So, as you may have seen yesterday, Yammer founder David Sacks is still alive in the World Series of Poker. In fact, he has to miss our events tomorrow because of it. But you know, there’s something that we’re missing today — Yammer.
The service has been down for a few hours now, with no [...]
It’s Official (Kind Of): People Prefer the Kindle
The Catalyst Group, who ran a fairly unscientific study of Google v. Bing preferences, have run another fairly unscientific study of Kindle v. Sony Reader user preferences. The results? The Kindle won on all fronts, beating Sony’s aged ereader handily.
The Group asked 12 interviewees, six men and six women, what they thought of both devices. [...]
WSOP Update: Calacanis Out, Sacks Still In (And Bails On TechCrunch Event)
Update on the tech gurus at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. We were tracking four players: Facebook exec Chamath Palihapitiya, Mahalo CEO Jason Calcanis, Geni/Yammer CEO David Sacks and former Yahoo exec David Goldberg. At least two are now out of the game.
Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya busted out on day 2 [...]
