Tablet PC

A very shrewd point. Unfortunately, my experience with my beloved Tablet PC was more to the effect that it ran anti-social software. No matter how cool it was, no one particularly wanted to receive the “ink” data type. The ultimate social software: ASCII text?

Gartner sees “Hype Cycle” for Social Software « Shepherd’s Pi
I really like this report for a number of reasons - among other things, it makes clear the social aspect of a number of more mature technologies (Tablet PC, Electronic Paper) which I favor, and which too often are recognized only for their technical aspects, not the socially enabling and disruptive benefits within and across organizations.

Official Google Blog: Google Mobile App: faster, easier search on iPhone & iPod Touch

Our first downloadable iPhone application is here. It’s free, and it makes searching faster and easier. It’s never as easy to type on a mobile phone
as on a full keyboard and the mobile network is rarely as fast as a desktop connection. So Google Mobile App starts working as soon as you type.

This would be a lot cooler (and more useful) on an iPhone Tablet.

MacDailyNews - The only thing really wrong with Apple’s iPhone is its name

Back to the naming issue: Apple’s “iPhone” isn’t really a phone at all. It’s really a small touchscreen Mac OS X computer, a Mac nano tablet, it you will. Here’s how misnamed the iPhone is: some people are complaining that Jobs didn’t spend enough time on the Mac in his keynote! Folks, iPhone is not only a Mac, it’s the most radical new Mac in years! What’s to stop Apple from making a 12-inch (and larger, and smaller) one of these (use the headset for the phone, please) and calling it a Mac tablet?

I don’t want an iPhone. I don’t want to be stuck with AT&T’s pokey EDGE network and I don’t want a 3.5″ browser.

But I’d love an 8 1/2 x 11 iPhone with a hard disk and about a thousand PDF books on it… wouldn’t that make a terrific complement for Google Books? I’ve read rumors that Google and Apple are thinking about working much more closely … an iReader with iBookstore would make a lot of sense. Maybe this is where Google Book Search is going with its long-delayed “online access” option. (I submitted my pricing info for online access more than 18 months ago, and no sign of the feature yet…)

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wfzimmerman's review: "A refreshing focus on personal productivity from a fellow self-publisher."
New Academy Publishers (2004), Paperback, 551 pages

Here’s an interesting historical comparison of books about Microsoft OneNote, including mine:

Google bringing search to historical manuscripts | InfoWorld | News | 2006-02-10 | By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service

History buffs can search George Washington’s manuscripts online today for terms like “revolution,” but only thanks to the tireless workers who transcribed the hand-written documents into digital form.

Soon, many other hand-written historical documents could be made available for the public to search — and through considerably less effort — if a research project funded by Google (Profile, Products, Articles) and being executed by three universities works out as planned.

The project, announced by Dublin City University (DCU) on Thursday …

… is an unfortunate piece of credulous puffery. Microsoft has patiently invested tens of millions of dollars in handwriting recogntion over a period of many years. It’s still tough. Google is very late to the game.