E-Books Why Book Highlights Are Anti-Social Continuing our Social Books series, today I'm looking at book highlights. The increasing popularity of e-readers, in particular the Kindle, has made it common practice to highlight passages and quotes within books. There have been various efforts to make those highlights social and today I'll look at the two leading services. One is from Amazon… Richard MacManus View comments
Television How Shazam Plans To Make Money On TV's Second Screen No longer content to just help you confirm that, yes, the song you're hearing is the new Justin Bieber single, Shazam is branching out. The music identification and discovery app is expanding its social TV capabilities and solidifying its role in the second-screen space. Unlike many new-media initiatives, it might even have a viable business… Play John Paul Titlow View comments
Apple Does Apple's New Lightning Connector Skirt EU Environmental Agreement? Apple seems to be following the letter of the law of a 2009 European Union agreement designed to reduce environmental waste by standardizing its iPhone connectors to Micro-USB. But does the iPhone 5's new Lightning connector comply with the spirit of the agreement? Mobile Brian Proffitt View comments
Google Google+ Buys A Photo Editor, Still Playing The Long Game On Monday, Google SVP of Engineering Vic Gundotra posted a quietly confident Google+ message. Google+'s user numbers are well into the hundreds of millions, and Google bought photo app company. As Twitter and Facebook work hurriedly to reinvent their businesses, Google plugs along, stuffing Google+ into its dominant properties and adding more and… Jon Mitchell View comments
Web Culture Smart Traveling Without A Smartphone My friend Matteo thinks I'm crazy for what I'm not carrying. "Deficiente," the 31-year-old engineer from Parma, Italy, says. Adam Popescu View comments