Week of 2010/08/29

[Comment]

I start seeing more and more people in the subway using their iPads. They seem to either read eBooks or they seem to use their iPads to listen to music, headphones connected. I can't stop thinking that over time the weight and the size of the iPad, compare to a Kindle, Nook, or iPod, will convince them that their iPad is of much better use at home or at the coffee-shop, and not on the subway.

[NyTimes]

• "Touchable Gadgets Win Over Users" [nytimes]
• "Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites" [nytimes]
• "A Book Attracts Loads of Facebook Fans. But Why?" [nytimes]
• "Print or Pixels? Publishers Strive to Advance Both" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds [link]
• Let a Thousand Personalized Newspapers Bloom [link]
• Steve Jobs at Stanford [link]