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June 8, 2010

Geo-aware ebook demo

We’re making the geo demo featured in the Interactivity in EPUB talk available for download under the MIT License.
About the demo
In the demo, the geolocation capability of the web browser transmits your latitude/longitude. The code then queries the Geonames database to get an English placename.
After that, the code will continually poll for [...]

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June 8, 2010

On digital distractions: quote in New York Times blog

Only indirectly related to ebooks, but a familiar problem for those who now juggle multiple ereaders and mobile devices:

I’ve got a quote further down the page:

Read the complete quote and also try some of the associated distraction tests.

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