Two Updates: Amazon Buys to Build a SuperKindle, Google Parries Aardvark

Things happen quickly these days! Thanks to comments from David Crotty with nice embedded links, two updates emerged last night I think people will be interested in. I wanted to use this post to highlight them beyond the comment threads:

Amazon has acquired a company that makes multitouch flexible screens, and speculation is that they’re making a full-color e-reader to rival Apple’s iPad

Google has launched social functionality into what one observer is calling it’s “two-way search.” While I tried it, and it didn’t work well, they are clearly countering moves like yesterday’s by start-up Aardvark. (That didn’t last long.)

Kent Anderson

Kent Anderson is the CEO of RedLink and RedLink Network, a past-President of SSP, and the founder of the Scholarly Kitchen. He has worked as Publisher at AAAS/Science, CEO/Publisher of JBJS, Inc., a publishing executive at the Massachusetts Medical Society, Publishing Director of the New England Journal of Medicine, and Director of Medical Journals at the American Academy of Pediatrics. Opinions on social media or blogs are his own.

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