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Daily Archives: July 13th, 2002
The Incredible Shrinking Palm
Saturday, July 13, 2002
PalmInfocenter still has a picture of the Oslo prototype leaked by Pocket PC Thoughts (who was later asked by Palm, Inc. to remove the image). This is an OS5 device with a Graffiti area that can be hidden by sliding the case up over it. Given that Palm jumped quickly to get Pocket PC Thoughts [...]
How NOT to Run a Media Business
Saturday, July 13, 2002
Salon is running out of money fast, and probably won’t survive much longer despite taking in a big of cash via subscriptions. What did they do wrong?
Well, for one thing, the subscriptions ticked off more people than they signed up. Rather than adding value (like, ahem, the subscription service here at Writing On Your Palm), [...]
Just the Text, Ma’am…
Saturday, July 13, 2002
The folks over at The Gadgeteer have posted a review of MegaMemo for Palm OS. We’ve all seen a ton of memo pad replacements, but this one is free, comes with a desktop conduit, and allows memos up to 32k. Not as powerful as pedit, perhaps, but cheaper. If you’re only concerned about writing text [...]
Token Anti-eBook Article
Saturday, July 13, 2002
Linton Weeks wrote an article in the Washington Post last weekend that poses the now tired and too-often-asked question: why didn’t ebooks work?
Frankly, I expected better of The Post. Weeks trots out some pretty tired arguments, including the following:
But maybe e-books never really caught fire because there was never a deep desire for them in [...]