Amazon Archives - The Connected World

Amazon and the Decline of the E-Reader

May 14, 2013 Posted by - David Jacobs

It's no surprise traditional black and white eReaders like the Amazon Kindle are starting to take a serious hit as the popularity of full function tablets rise. Amazon's Kindle application runs on all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Mobile Computing, Technology Tagged With: Amazon, apple, eBooks, eReader, Facebook, Google, Kindle

Amazon.com Is Not Awesome

August 1, 2012 Posted by - David Jacobs

I am reading this book by Scott Stratten The Book of Business Awesome/The Book of Business UnAwesome which is about the things companies can do to be awesome. It includes ideas about customer service … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Marketing, Mobile Computing, Technology Tagged With: Amazon, Kindle, Scott Stratten, The Book of Business Awesome

Social Business Report – July 9

July 10, 2012 Posted by - David Jacobs

On this weeks show: Tablet Wars: The new battle at 7 inches is on Cloud Dependency - Amazon cloud goes down taking several prominent websites with it. Twitter cracks down on their API. Will they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Marketing, Mobile Computing, Social Media Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Cloud, apple, British Airways, Google, Kindle, Lady Gaga, Little Monsters, nexus 7, Twitter

Social Business Report – June 29

June 30, 2012 Posted by - David Jacobs

Welcome to the new Social Business Report show. This video show is available on YouTube and Vimeo as well as the website here. The show is a weekly roundup of social business news. On this weeks … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Marketing, Mobile Computing, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: Amazon, apple, Facebook, Google, Kindle, kindle fire, LinkedIn, nexus 7, Social Business, Twitter

The State of Change in Television

June 23, 2012 Posted by - David Jacobs

Earlier I brought you the story of Dish Network's battle with the television industry over commercial skipping and Dish chief Charlie Ergan's contention that "television needs to change." Well, here … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Marketing, Technology, Video/Social TV Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Prime, netflix, Soap Opera, Streaming TV, Television

Data is King in the Connected World

October 26, 2010 Posted by - David Jacobs

I love my Amazon Kindle and so do a lot of other people. Amazon just announced for their top 10 books, Kindle versions are outselling print editions by more than 2 to 1. One of the reasons I love … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Mobile Computing Tagged With: Amazon, Android, Cloud Computing, Connected World, Data, iPad, iphone, Kindle, Sync

A Connected World TV From Vizio

July 8, 2009 Posted by - David Jacobs

No, it's not my new video podcast, but an actual hdtv from Vizio with build in wifi networking. The so-called digital convergence has been talked about for years, but here is the first product I have … [Read more...]