The Kindle is the logical evolution of a 500-year-old analog technology that terrifies the $24 billion book-publishing industry already faint from Amazon’s growing dominance. On June 12th, Gizmodo announced that the Kindle DX,  just started shipping on Amazon to extend it’s e-book reach to include textbooks and periodicals, which it will test-market to college students.The DX was sold out before the end of the week Read the original: Amazon’s Kindle: Will It Do to Books What Apple’s [...]

Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out Today, the Google-Facebook rivalry isn’t just going strong, it has evolved into a full-blown battle over the future of the Internet—its structure, design, and utility. For the last decade or so, the Web has been defined by Google’s algorithms—rigorous and efficient equations that parse practically every byte of online activity to build a dispassionate atlas of the online world. [...]