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Apple has approved for sale my first children’s book app, a joint venture with acclaimed illustrator and children’s book author Craig Frazier, titled Stanley Mows the Lawn. Without spoiling the story, Frazier’s well-loved Stanley character appears in this title to perform the rather unpleasant chore of mowing his overgrown lawn, [...]

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Presented for your consideration today, a brief examination of what makes an app an app, and distinctly not a desktop application, nor a mobile website for that matter (and this is by far a more compelling examination).

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Where Books End & Apps Begin

On November 2, 2010 By admin

The New York Times is running an interesting article today discussing the thoughts and concerns of some Brooklyn based developers who are publishing their work as applications for Apple’s iOS.

Adderall Diaries Blurs Books-Apps Line draws attention to a number of issues, including, most interestingly to me, that of the editorial over-sight posed by [...]

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Which way do we turn?

On June 9, 2010 By admin

Greetings from Chicago. After two days and fifteen hundred miles, I’ve confirmed a few long-held assumptions about the quality of food served alongside American highways, but, to date, no revelations about the broader state of technology in America.

Revelations aside, the role of technology in a life-on-the-road has been interesting, and sometimes frustrating, to observe. [...]

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