Friday, March 2, 2007
SharedBook, and more on Open APIs
I should point out that a company called SharedBook is developing a similar system to the Open API I wrote about earlier. They have developed a: unique, on demand reverse publishing platform to help businesses and consumers extract, manipulate and...
API to Print
A concept that I have been thinking about as I work on my thesis is the use of an "Open" Application Programming Interface (API) to a print production system. The API concept in itself is not a new method of...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Wiki-enabled Print Publishing System
Wiki and other web-based collaboration platforms have been on the rise over the past few years. Wiki platforms have proved to be a successful tool in socially driven open content environments. The best known wiki, Wikipedia has accumulated over 1.6...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Consumer Print Product Market
I haven't seen any hard numbers, but the on-demand print product market seems to be a pretty sweet place to have a service offering. Innovation in web-enabled workflow systems have made the creation high quality print products (especially photo book...
Friday, October 6, 2006
EMRT Lecture Series
I sat through Frank Cost's The Book as Child of the Internet lecture at EMRT this morning. Frank was invited by a EMRT, local consultanting firm to speak to a group scientists and engineers for their monthly internal lecture series....
Monday, October 2, 2006
Testing Web-enabled Print
A part of my thesis involves analyzing current implementations of web-enabled print. The analysis will provide the basis as I attempt to create a model and taxonomy that describes the current state of the state-of-the-art. I have created a standardized...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Colorful Lightning
Lighting Source announced back in May that were adding full-color book capabilities to their service offerings. They are now starting to vamp up these capabilities: Beginning September 6, 2006, Lightning Source publishers may begin to set up and send...
