Category Archives: Technology

Design And Print Your Own Moleskines With Paper’s New “Book” | Co.Design

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Paper is an amazing iPad app–and one of our Innovation By Design nominees–because its team at FiftyThree cracked the code of making creation a simple, beautiful experience on tablets. There’s just one problem: Paper isn’t actually paper; it’s a screen.

Today, FiftyThree and Moleskine are revealing a solution called Book. For $40, you will be able to turn your Paper sketches into a custom Moleskine print. The 15-page, accordion-style, handmade “Book” marks the first time that the iconic Moleskine has ever allowed cover customization. It’s also a potential peek into the future strategy of FiftyThree, a company that hasn’t been shy about their plan to expand their purview into a whole suite of creative productivity apps.

Read: Design And Print Your Own Moleskines With Paper’s New “Book” | Co.Design | business + design.

OverDrive announces new APIs for Library Circulation | OverDrive

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Last year we introduced the initial set of OverDrive APIs that enable approved vendors to deeply integrate OverDrive-hosted catalogs and nearly 1 million digital titles with their apps and platforms. These included the ability to access catalog metadata, see availability of a title and search the library’s collection.

Today, we are excited to announce that the all-new Circulation APIs are available on the OverDrive Developer Portal. The Circulation APIs will allow approved partners to request checkouts, downloads, holds, and returns from within their own discovery interface. This means users will now be able to browse and search their library’s digital collection, see what’s available and check out a title or place a hold all without ever leaving the library OPAC.

Read: OverDrive announces new APIs for Library Circulation | OverDrive.

HarperCollins partners with Scribd for ebook subscription service | Quill & Quire

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HarperCollins has partnered with document-sharing website Scribd on a new ebook subscription service.

Dubbed “Netflix for ebooks,” subscribers pay $8.99 a month for the ability to check out an unlimited number of ebooks – up to 10 titles at time – from the Scribd catalogue, which includes backlists from HarperCollins and several small U.S. presses. The service allows readers to switch between browsers, Android, and Apple devices without losing their place.

HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray told the Associated Press that the partnership will provide the publisher with valuable data about Scribd readers. “This is going to help us make even better publishing and marketing decisions for our authors,” he says.

The international service is now available in Canada, although not all titles are accessible for download.

HarperCollins partners with Scribd for ebook subscription service | Quill & Quire

Gaming and Play in the Library: A Brief History | Information Space

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The international academic journal Library Quarterly recently published my article tracing the history of gaming in libraries back to the 1850s. You can see the entire article in the publications area of my game lab, Because Play Matters. I wanted to offer a few highlights here about how public libraries have used games over the years.

Read the full story: Gaming and Play in the Library: A Brief History | Information Space.

Top Tech Gear of 2013 [Infographic] | Finances Online™

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Top Tech Gear of 2013

Facebook Is Finally Letting You Search for Old Posts | Gizmodo

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Now that Graph Search has finally rolled out to the entire Facebook world, the newest covetable feature has been bestowed onto a small subset of users. Starting today, Facebook is rolling out Graph Search for posts.

Read: Facebook Is Finally Letting You Search for Old Posts | Gizmodo

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GitHub For Beginners: Don’t Get Scared, Get Started [PART 1 of 2] | ReadWrite

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It’s 2013, and there’s no way around it: you need to learn how to use GitHub. 

Why? Because it’s a social network that has completely changed the way we work. Having started as a developer’s collaborative platform, GitHub is now the largest online storage space of collaborative works that exists in the world. Whether you’re interested in participating in this global mind meld or in researching this massive file dump of human knowledge, you need to be here.

Read: GitHub For Beginners: Don’t Get Scared, Get Started  [PART 1 of 2] | ReadWrite.

Why Women Leave Tech Companies, And What To Do About It | Co.Exist

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[T]oday, women still leave tech companies at double the rate of men. Even the women who make it past all the hurdles of being a female in the field–the lack of role models, sexism, and so on–don’t stay very long.

Women Technologists Count, a new report from the Anita Borg Institute (ABI), examines the reasons why women in mid-level roles tend to leave technical career paths to become managers–or decide to leave the industry altogether. ABI offers up pages upon pages of recommendations on how to keep women in technology, but they boil it down to this:

Why Women Leave Tech Companies, And What To Do About It | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

Read the full story: Why Women Leave Tech Companies, And What To Do About It | Co.Exist | ideas + impact.

Google Launches Web Designer, A Visual Tool For Building Interactive HTML5 Sites And Ads | TechCrunch

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Google today announced the launch of Web Designer, a new tool for building interactive HTML5 sites and ads. The company first hinted at this launch in June, but had been quiet about it ever since. Web Designer, which Google calls a “professional-quality design tool,” is now officially in public beta and available for download for Mac and Windows.

Read: Google Launches Web Designer, A Visual Tool For Building Interactive HTML5 Sites And Ads | TechCrunch.

Principal sues students over parody Facebook, Twitter accounts | CNET News

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An Oregon middle school educator tries to paint his mocking students as hackers in order to bring an action against them under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Read: Principal sues students over parody Facebook, Twitter accounts | CNET News.