30/5/09

Startup Opportunity: Web 3.0

 
 

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vía Startup Professionals Musings de MartinZwilling el 15/05/09


What if your Google search for 'Paris Hilton' listed your top result as the Hilton Hotel in Paris, because it knew your interests were not in the other direction? This is the current dream of Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the (first) World Wide Web.

He calls it 'Web 3.0' or the 'Semantic Web,' meaning understanding context. He and many other experts believe that the Web 3.0 browser will act like a personal assistant. As you search the Web, the browser learns what you are interested in. The more you use the Web, the more your browser learns about you and the less specific you'll need to be with your questions.

Eventually you might be able to ask your browser open questions like "where should I take my wife for a good movie and dinner?" Your browser would consult its records of what you and she like and dislike, take into account your current location, and then suggest the right movies and restaurants. You can be the next Google, if you are the first to deliver this!

But some are skeptical about whether the Semantic Web - or at least, Berners-Lee's view of it - will actually take hold. They point to other technologies capable of reinventing the online world as we know it, from 3D virtual worlds to Web-connected bathroom mirrors. Web 3.0 could mean many things, and for 'netheads,' every single one is a breathtaking proposition.

The Semantic Web isn't really even a new idea. This notion of a Web where machines can better read, understand, and process all the data floating through cyberspace first surfaced in 2001, when a story appeared in Scientific American. The article describes a world in which software "agents" perform Web-based tasks we often struggle to complete on our own.

An early delivery example is the
BlueOrganizer from AdaptiveBlue. If you visit a movie blog, for instance, and read about a particular film, it immediately links to sites where you can buy or rent that film. Web pages already contain semantic data, which is parsed and processed to find these links.

Other startups are thinking along these lines in fields all the way from clothes shopping, art galleries, online advertising, to managing press releases. In some ways, these aren't that different from the old Amazon.com "recommendation engine," which suggests new products based on your surfing and buying habits.

But we are a long way from agents that can do natural language processing and think on their own (artificial intelligence). A recent startup,
Alitora Systems, provides software to enterprises based on a natural language processing (NLP) engine.

It extracts knowledge statements from unstructured documents - that's a particular challenge for the life sciences where high-value knowledge about things, such as the relationship between genetics and disease, lies hidden within journal articles, research papers, clinical trial data, FDA websites, and the like.

That's a good step, but extracting information from things such as Twitter feeds is a very different knowledge extraction problem. At the core it's still about unstructured data coming in, going through some degree of analysis, and knowledge coming out across a collaborative network.

Just think of the fertile ground all this opens for startups! If you're looking for that 'million dollar idea' to build a plan around, here is your chance. But don't wait too long, because the din for Web 3.0 is getting louder and louder. Catch the wave soon or it will pass you by!

Marty Zwilling

 
 

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the "Ed"

 
 

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vía ~ synthesis ~ de shafeen el 1/05/09

Commit to educationAndrew Rotherham recently pointed to a McKinsey analysis of national education data. A few things jumped out at me after a quick scan of the supporting materials to the article:

  • We can learn from our neighbors (Canada is among the highest performing countries)
  • We can spend less money (the US spends more per achievement outcome than anyone else)
  • We can create more potential (effective graduates)
  • That potential is worth a lot (the more graduates you have, the greater your GDP)

Then there's something missing - there has to be, otherwise how could the American education not be be better than it is?

If you were told: "You can spend less to create a better product that will make you more money, and one of the best examples of this is your next-door neighbor." Wouldn't you do it?

What are we missing??

This reminds me of The Karate Kid, a coming of age film where a boy learns how to defend himself from a group of thugs with the help of his Japanese superintendent. The Super starts him off with some work around his house, painting the fence, washing the floor, waxing the car - all done in a very specific way. After doing all these seemingly meaningless chores, the boy gets angry and frustrated, and that's when the old man, with a slew of attacks, shows him that he's unknowingly built the muscles and reflexes that are the essence of self-defense!

The sensei was wise, proven and savvy enough to know what elemental skills the boy needed, how best to teach them to him, and once these seemingly unrelated skills were mastered, he helped the boy realize that he had learned something altogether different.

Rogers Innovation DiffusionThe American education system needs a sensei. Someone with the wisdom and guile to craft a profound outcome out of a series of seemingly unrelated acts that suddenly explode on the American people,  forming the basis of a great education system.

The traditional approach is based on the Everett Rogers Innovation Diffusion Curve to the left. School teachers fit this curve very nicely. The most visible, Web 2.0, twittering blogger-types are all in the Innovators category, with Early Adopters, the Majorities, and maybe a slightly bigger than smaller category of Laggards.

But the Innovators are too far ahead of everyone else, so much so that the mainstream simply can't connect with them. Traditionally, the Early Adopters would bridge the gap to the Majorities and help pull them along into the future, and while this is how grassroots/organic change will happen in education, I think this process is too slow and too fragmented to yield meaningful results by itself. Moreover, the Majorities have enormous inertia and inadequate incentives to be receptive to quantum change.

Learning We need a catalyst (sensei) with unimpeachable authority and strength, based on wisdom and experience to create the circumstances where "epiphanically" a national transformation occurs. It might take a decade to happen, but we all know it will, because our sensei is just that good.

I wonder - who is the Peter Drucker of Education?

Where is this person who has the chops and cred to be able to make profound change happen? And how would it happen?

It's time for America to create a non-political, national sister organization to the Federal Reserve/Ben Bernanke for Education.

We could call it "the Ed."

We just need to find our sensei.


 
 

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Video: Plastic Logic Prototype E-Reader

 
 

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vía TechCrunch de Erick Schonfeld el 28/05/09

Plastic Logic is showing off a prototype of its thin-film electronic reader at the D7 conference. The main difference between what Plastic Logic is trying to build and the Kindle is that its screen technology is much thinner, lighter and can be incorporated into more flexible form- factors. I shot the video above showing a demo of what it can do.

We certainly need thinner, sleeker e-reader devices. But unless Amazon adopts the technology for future Kindles or opens up the Kindle Store t other e-readers, any Plastic Logic device will have limited appeal. The company is pitching it as ideal for viewing business documents, something you can easily do with the Kindle as well. It converts everything to a PDF and lets you jump around to different pages or even different documents (represented by different tabs). The Plastic Logic prototype uses E-Ink technology, like the Kindle, it i just not on glass. So it suffers from the same slow load times for each new page. It also does not display Web pages (something the Kindle does in rudimentary form).

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BeBook Mini, un libro electrónico con pantalla de cinco pulgadas

 
 

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vía tuexperto.com de Redacción el 29/05/09

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Los ebooks o libros electrónicos son dispositivos que nos permiten llevar varios libros encima, pero cargando sólo con un pequeño gadget de bolsillo. Pero como al parecer aún hay quien los considera demasiado grandes, desde BeBook, nos llega BeBook Mini. Se trata de un libro electrónico con una pantalla de 5 pulgadas de tamaño, y por lo tanto menor tamaño y peso que el primer BeBook o Papyre.

Sin embargo, un menor tamaño no parece significar un menor precio. Y es que al parecer, reducir tanto el tamaño sale algo caro.


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Aunque estas dimensiones de pantalla parecen una desventaja para leerlo, ya se ha pensado en ello. Por eso, el propio lector nos da la posibilidad de ampliar el tamaño de la letra tanto como queramos. Así además, evitaremos que se nos canse la vista, principal desventaja de este tipo de dispositivos. Por otro lado, se ha mejorado sustancialmente el procesador que usa, lo que reducirá de forma notable los tiempos de carga de cada página.

El dispositivo está disponible en 2 colores: blanco y negro. En la foto superior podemos ver los dos modelos, flanqueando la versión anterior del BeBook. Y para cargar los libros que queramos en él, cuenta con una ranura de tarjetas SD. Así, no hará falta más que insertar la tarjeta en la ranura, y ponernos a leer. Aunque si no tenemos ninguna tarjeta de memoria de este tipo, siempre podemos conectarlo al ordenador por su puerto USB. De este modo, podremos cargar los libros, directamente en la memoria interna del lector.

En cuanto a su precio, podemos encontrarlo pronto en tiendas norteamericanas por lo que serían 200 euros, según el cambio actual. Aunque teniendo en cuenta que la empresa que lo distribuye es la misma que ha traído a España el popular Papyre, no es de extrañar que llegue pronto.

Vía: Electronista


 
 

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El híbrido de E-Paper y LCD de Pixel Qi podría revolucionar el mundo de las ...

 
 

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vía Gizmodo ES de rmcdf el 29/05/09

Pixel Qi ya ha subido las primeras imágenes de su pantalla de bajo coste 3Qi, que al parecer puede funcionar como E-Paper, legible bajo luz solar, y LCD retroilminado o transflectivo. Además, los primeros modelos comerciales estarán disponibles este otoño. Mary Lou Jepsen, de Pixel Qi, diseñó la pantalla reflectiva del OLPC, a la que añade ahora un modo e-book… aunque se fabrica con las técnicas del LCD. Jepsen ha hecho dos promesas: la 3Qi se puede fabricar y… además, es barato hacerlo. Si los precios están cerca de los de una pantalla LCD normal de netbook, podría ser una revolución en el mercado: netbooks que podrían ser lectores de e-book, lectores de e-book que podrían ser PMPs… [Gadget Lab]


 
 

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Smartbook, dispositivos con Snapdragon

 
 

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vía Xataka de Sacha Fuentes el 29/05/09

Smartbook

Smartbook. Es el nombre de lo que imaginan para el futuro desde Qualcomm, fabricantes de la plataforma Snapdragon, con la que funciona, por ejemplo, el Toshiba TG01, y que ofrece un procesador a 1 GHz, además de múltiples funciones en el mismo chip.

Era una tendencia que ya vimos clara el año pasado, pero que Qualcomm se ha encargado de poner en negro sobre blanco, explicando cuales serán las futuras características de esta línea de dispositivos, que se quedan a medio camino entre un smartphone y un netbook, de ahí su nombre.

Smartbook

Los smartbook están pensados, por tanto, para no apagarse nunca, igual que un teléfono móvil, pero para poder trabajar en cualquier lado, igual que un ultraportátil. Ofrecerán conectividad 3G y Wi-Fi, de forma que nos podamos conectar a Internet desde cualquier lado.

También disponen de Bluetooth y GPS, además de capacidades gráficas avanzadas, como aceleración 3D y reproducción de vídeo en alta resolución. Todo ello con un peso inferior al kilo y con un grosor de menos de 2 centímetros.

No nos gusta tanto que la autonomía del smartbook se vaya a quedar en unas 8 horas de uso, aunque si estas son reales podemos aceptarlo. Mientras no lo estamos usando podemos tenerlo hasta una semana en standby.

Se espera que para finales de este año empiecen a estar listos los primeros modelos de smartbook, aunque por ahora ningún fabricante los ha anunciado en su catálogo, por lo que no sabemos quien ni a que precio los van a traer.

Vía | JkOnTheRun.
Más información | Smartbook.


 
 

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What's a rich media ad, anyway?

 
 

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vía The Official Google Blog de A Googler el 30/04/09

Since last year's DoubleClick acquisition, we've increased our focus on helping marketers and agencies use Google tools for all of their display advertising needs. DoubleClick Rich Media is the part of DoubleClick that provides the technology for the most technically advanced and engaging of these display ads, which are typically created by creative agencies for their brand-focused clients. To help make this process even easier and efficient, today we're launching DoubleClick Studio, our new rich media production and development tool.

To describe rich media, it helps to think about other ad formats that we're all familiar with, starting with the simplest: text ads. With just a few keystrokes, anyone can create simple messages in a standardized format, and place them on a site like Google.com in minutes. Then we have standard display ads, ads that usually include text with a visual such as a logo or a graphic. These can be in formats we're all familiar with like .jpg, .gif, .swf and more. Standard display ads can either be static or animated with tools like Flash. They typically have only one interaction, meaning that when you click on them, you'll be taken to a destination site. And then at the most complex level, from a design and interaction perspective, we have rich media ads. With rich media, you can have ads that expand when users click or roll over, for example, and there are extensive possibilities for interactive content, such as HD video or even the ability to click to make a phone call.

But making a rich media ad possible requires much more complex technology to ensure that all of the ad behaviors function properly, that all of the interactions can be measured, and to serve the ads onto web pages. Every piece of the canvas, from the video play button to the button that allows for expansion, requires coding in Flash that's made possible by a rich media technology provider like DoubleClick Rich Media. With all of this complexity, there's also a lot of room for error. So in addition to enabling the development of the ads, tools like DoubleClick Studio provide quality analysis and preview functionalities to make sure that the ads work the way they should.

Here is a graphic that represents some of the differences between types of online ads:

With DoubleClick Studio, we hope to make it easier for our existing users to produce rich media ads, and to expand the number of advertisers that can make these useful formats part of their marketing strategy. This is also a good thing for Internet users; rich media capabilities make advertising even more useful, letting a viewer interact with an ad and learn about a brand without having to leave the page they're on. And, advertisers have an expanded creative canvas within the ad itself, allowing for deeper, higher-quality content in the ad itself. At Google, we believe that ads at their best are useful information.

To read more about DoubleClick Studio, visit the DoubleClick blog.

Posted by Shamim Samadi and Ari Paparo, DoubleClick Rich Media Team

 
 

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28/5/09

Monetization Models in the Music Industry

 
 

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vía Ustrategy de rlichtenberg el 19/05/09

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On the panel:

Ian Rogers- Topspin

David Ring, Universal Music Group

Fred Von Lohmann, EFT

Jim Griffin, Choruss

Tony Van Veen, Disc Makers

Celia Hirshman (Moderator), One Little Indian/KCRW

Rogers: Cost of marketing is increasing. Harder to sell than ever. Our dream is an efficient marketplace where people get to interact with the music they like in their way. There will be a rising middle class of artists; the tails will get longer.

Griffin: There's more than one model that works. Publishing is up, sound recording is down, so it doesn't take a genius to figure out we should look at publishing and figure out how to do the same. Choruss is an experiment. It is a test in patience. The model where we take out artists to the world and expect it to happen over night doesn't work.

Do we need the government as a custodian to manage pricing and rights?

Can the music industry turn the wagon without shooting at ourselves?

Griffin suggests looking at analogous models: "Look at the Sports industry coming to grip with loss of seat at the stadiums. Sports finds itself at the very basic tier of cable.  There is a monetization layer upon which service layers flourish."

"The music industry is the world's largest law-firm."

Van Veen: The business fundamentals are the same: Offer value, tools to help artists get ahead.

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Von Lohmann: Typical recorded songs incorporates two separate copyrights: one owned by the original recorder, usually shared with the original recording label,  then there's the sound recording—generally owned by the label who paid for the track to be made.  And the publishers, to make things more complicated, has split the rights to the music composition side—and to the entities handling the mechanicals. All of these different entities want to be paid. The Choruss experiment is important not only because it tests various pricing models—but also because it tests payment models between the universities and all the other major players.

The music business as a whole is realizing it must come to the table. Peer-to-peer is here to stay. The iTunes, Rhapsody, and all these guys together amount to less than 10% of what's going on out there. for the other 90%, people have been paid zero. The only way to compete is to give fans what they want…not to force $0.99 per download. Imagine your college student paying $5 per month to access music from wherever they want, in whatever format they want, using the school's network.  The music industry is enjoying the greatest profit margin in the entertainment industry. The movie studios haven't made the same mistakes that the Music industry has been replaying since they banned Napster. The movie industry is playing content for free (See Hulu and the major networks).

Ring: How do you market to fans who don't want to be marketed to anymore? We have to get the music to where the fans are and marketing that is very expensive. We need to figure out how to monetize. People will pay a lot of money to join what they consider is exclusive.

"We need to explore certain type of network node licensing so we can monetize the activity that's going on in a way that makes sense."

The investment required to get the artist to success requires significant investment…who will be paying for it?

Griffin agrees on covering the cost of marketing but argues that we should focus on music's ability to draw a crowd. Every ISP now offers music downloads in their plans. They figured that music and media draws crowds to them. We should license to them—not to the user.

Von Lohmann: Network operators will recognize that there's value to them. Imagine how much better it'll be if they can advertise "all the music you want for free…as long as you purchase this plan." That's a product they can use to sell a lot more residential broadband. There's a win-win here. People will download music regardless. We should be able to do better than the 90% who make zero. it's not realistic to ask a college student to pay $30,000 to fill their iPod. Right now the music industry is not getting paid for 90% of what's on their network.

Leveraging the 10% That is Being Monetized

Rogers: People are not thieves. Small percentage of people who use WinApp offered to pay for it. It comes down to the question: are people generally good or generally bad? When given a choice between more value for a higher price, enthusiasts will choose the higher price. People are convenience sensitive, not price sensitive.


 
 

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How to save the publishing industry

 
 

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vía SAMBA Blog de Jon Dale el 25/05/09

Traditionally, what a book publisher brings to the table is two sets of relationships.

1. Relationships with the people who buy books...the middle men (not the readers).
2. Relationships with the people who review books...the editor of the Times book review section.

There's a problem with this. Books are now being bought directly by the readers, increasingly online from sites like Amazon. The readers are increasingly being influenced by a different type of reviewer. This reviewer doesn't write for the Times, she writes for herself, and her blog audience.

There's a huge opportunity here. The question is who will figure it out first? The authors or the publishers.

We all agree that successful authors have nascent tribes. The opportunity lies in connecting authors with their audience.

Authors make the bulk of their income from their advance.  If a publisher wants a successful author they offer them a larger advance than their current publisher and there's a decent chance the author will walk.

But, what if the publishers actively helped their authors build tribes online? They'd be doing the authors a huge service and no author could afford to leave their publisher, because they'd be walking away from their tribe.

If the publishers don't help the authors do this, the authors will start doing it themselves.  And once they've developed their own tribe, what do they need the publisher for? I believe that publishers are in the perfect position to do this, because authors are used to the publisher brokering these relationships and most authors have no idea where to start.

At this point, the publishers by and large don't get this (with the notable exception of Hachette). A couple of months ago I received a referral from a publicist at a large NY publishing house who wanted me to help one of her authors build his tribe (on the author's dime). What most publishers still haven't thought through is that they should be the ones building the communities.

If publishers helped their authors build and serve their tribes they just might save the publishing industry.


 
 

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El lector de eBooks de Plastic Logic en vídeo

 
 

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vía Gizmodo ES de rmcdf el 28/05/09

Brian Lam de Gizmodo USA está haciendo de las suyas en All things D y ha podido echar un vistazo y grabar en vídeo el lector de eBooks de Plastic Logic. Tiene una pantalla táctil de 10 pulgadas y un grosor de 7 mm. El dispositivo tendrá su propia tienda, así como conexiones 3G y Wi-Fi cuando se lance en enero de 2010 en USA. Por lo demás, permite hacer anotaciones y marcas en los documentos, refrescando sólo la zona de la pantalla que has modificado, y posee pestañas para diferentes documentos a la izquierda y una barra de scroll a la derecha. Puedes ver el vídeo de Brian después del salto.

— Rafa M. Claudín [Gizmodo USA]


 
 

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Los escritores se rebelan por la gestión de los derechos de autor

 
 

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El escritor Javier Sierra /ABCNo hay escritor en el mundo editorial español que ho haya escuchado en más de una ocasión (por no decir cien) y de boca de su editor aquello de «El mejor premio es ver publicado tu libro». Pero no, el conformismo adulterado y la falta de suspicacias y sospechas frente al ya tan manido cobro de derechos de autor han pasado a mejor vida gracias a un grupo de escritores que amenazan con hacer temblar las bases que cimientan la anquilosada industria editorial española. Bajo el nombre de Escritores Unidos se enmarca el proyecto de un grupo de autores que se muestran convencidos de que «los peores ..

 
 

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iPhone ayudará en clases y controlará asistencia de alumnos en universidad japonesa

La universidad Aoyama Gakuin integrará el dispositivo a las clases.
Unos 550 estudiantes recibirán un equipo de regalo.

Una universidad japonesa está regalando el iPhone de Apple a los estudiantes, pero con una condición: el dispositivo se usará para controlar su asistencia a clase.
El proyecto, que está en fase de prueba antes de su lanzamiento en junio, involucrará a 550 estudiantes del primer y segundo año y también a algunos empleados de un departamento de la Universidad Aoyama Gakuin, situada en la ciudad de Sagamihara.
Los iPhones escolares están pensados para crear una red de información móvil entre los estudiantes y profesores, pero también son un forma apropiada para que los profesores puedan controlar la asistencia a clase.

La casa de estudios ofrecerá materias en audio y video, para reforzar la enseñanza.
"Nuestra esperanza es utilizarlo para desarrollar una clase donde los estudiantes y profesores puedan discutir sobre varias cuestiones", dijo el profesor Yasuhiro Iijima, durante una demostración de la aplicación.
Cuando los estudiantes entren en el aula, en lugar de escribir su nombre en una hoja de papel, solo teclearán su número ID y un número de clase específico en una aplicación del iPhone.

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27/5/09

¿Merecen mejor sueldo los periodistas?

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Toshiba Biblio, el pequeño e-reader

 
 

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vía TecnoGadgets.com de Pilar el 27/05/09

El Toshiba Biblio es un pequeño e-reader, quizá demasiado, ya que su pantalla LCD tiene 3,5 pulgadas, aunque tiene una resolución de 960 x 480 píxeles.

Tiene además 7 GB de almacenamiento, Wi-Fi, una cámara de 5 megapíxeles, un teclado QWERTY y un diccionario electrónico, y es que el Thoshiba Biblio permitirá realizar llamadas. Visto esto, se podría decir que está entre un e-reader y un móvil dadas sus características.

Por el momento no disponemos de más información.

Vía Gizmos.


 
 

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26/5/09

Los medios enfrentan "un cambio de modelo, no una crisis" (Entrevista a Juan Luis Cebrián)

Para el consejero delegado del Grupo Prisa, que edita el diario español El País, el actual cambio fundamental "está en que los diarios se sustentan en un sistema del siglo pasado: la economía de oferta, y la era digital trae una economía de demanda. Estamos en un momento en el que la intermediación, que es lo que caracteriza a la democracia representativa, está desapareciendo", dice Cebrián a Esquire.


Para Cebrián, quien trata de sacar adelante al Grupo Prisa en medio de la crisis, los periódicos son "un producto del pasado y muy arcaico". Dice en El Mundo: "Si volviera a tener la oportunidad de fundar 'El País', a día de hoy lo haría en la Red, porque ofreceríamos un producto más barato y con más difusión".


Al mismo tiempo, el periodista, empresario y escritor plantea que la gran amenaza para los imperios informativos como The New York Times o el propio Prisa no es la irrupción de nuevos medios, sino el fin del modelo que los sustenta, que data de los siglos XIX y XX. Los periódicos crecieron "en torno a la Revolución Industrial y a la democracia representativa, formando parte de ese poder". Ahora, "nadie sabe" cómo se desarrollará el nuevo modelo, aunque sí "está claro" que no será similar al actual, dice.


Sin embargo, Cebrián aún siente que el periodismo es un buen oficio: "Estaría dispuesto a volver a empezar ahora mismo. He sido director, empresario y redactor jefe, pero te puedo asegurar que no hay nada como ser redactor, el rey de esta profesión. Ser un buen redactor de periódico –un redactor senior, como ahora se dice– es lo mejor que le puede pasar a uno en la vida". Lea las entrevistas en Esquire y El Mundo.




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Interead COOL-ER, el lector de libros electrónicos se tiñe de color

 
 

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vía tuexperto.com de Redacción el 26/05/09

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No, no es un lector de libros electrónicos con pantalla a todo color como el Fujitsu FLEPia. Este Interead COOL-ER es sencillamente un dispositivo para leer libros electrónicos normal y corriente, sólo que con ocho colores de carcasa diferentes para elegir. Una estrategia para seducir a la vista al potencial cliente junto a su diseño tipo iPod. Porque, tanto su forma de petaca con bordes redondeados, como su rueda de navegación recuerdan mucho a los reproductores de bolsillo de Apple.

Una vez encajado su atractivo visual, la verdad es que el aparato no se diferencia mucho de cualquier lector de libros electrónicos estándar. Su pantalla es de seis pulgadas y emplea la conocida tecnología de tinta electrónica, que en este modelo es capaz de representar ocho niveles de profundidad de gris. Para manejarlo dispone de la citada rueda de navegación y algunos controles laterales.

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Tampoco es especialmente versátil en lo que a formatos se refiere. Para leer libros se sirve sobre todo de archivos PDF y EPUB, aunque también es compatible con los TXT. Puede mostrar fotografías en JPEG, aunque lógicamente sólo en blanco y negro. Si queremos ambientar la lectura podemos reproducir música en MP3. Precisamente incluye un adaptador estándar para auriculares de 3,5 milímetros, ya que la salida de audio nativa del aparato es la más infrecuente de 2,5 milímetros.

Posee un gigabyte de almacenamiento interno, que sin ser la panacea tampoco está mal. De todos modos, su memoria se puede expandir mediante tarjetas tipo Secure Digital, siempre y cuando éstas no superen los cuatro gigabytes de capacidad.

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Carece por completo de características que lo hagan más especial, como pantalla táctil, conexión inalámbrica Wi-Fi o teclado completo QWERTY. Sin embargo, su peso de sólo 178 gramos y su ajustado precio de 225 euros (en comparación con otros lectores de ebooks) pueden dar un buen resultado. Se podrá adquirir desde la página web de Interead a partir de junio. La compañía también ha puesto en marcha un catálogo online para descargar libros electrónicos, con precios para todos los gustos.

Vía: Xataka


 
 

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