Webcartoonist Ryan North’s Kickstarter campaign has broken the all-time record for being the most funded publishing project ever. His reinvention of Shakespeare’s classic, Hamlet — To Be Or Not To Be: That Is the Adventure — is a choose-your-own-adventure style story. The illustrated book is described as “80,000 words of comedy and mayhem,” with jokes,
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Isis, the national mobile commerce network, will kick off next week with consumer trials and support for three Samsung Galaxy-branded Android smartphones: The Samsung Galaxy S III, Galaxy S II and Galaxy S Relay 4G. “The time is finally here as T-Mobile and the ISIS team prepares to officially launch their pilot Mobile Wallet application
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By Gab Goldenberg, author of The Advanced SEO Book – read it free, pay if you like it in six weeks. You can get a free chapter here. Google’s acquisition of Frommer’s was recently in the news, but most of the news coverage missed the point about Google’s evolution from a search company to a
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On Tuesday between sessions at SMX, I had an opportunity to sit down with Ric Dragon and discuss his book, Social Marketology. Many of you are professionally involved in SEO, SEM, or SMM and are probably familiar with Ric and the work done by his company, DragonSearch. For those of you not directly involved in
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Look up the definition of irony in next year’s edition of the dictionary, and you’re bound to read about Crowdfunding: A Guide to What Works and Why. According to author Glenn Fleishman, it’s a book that “distills hard-won lessons of successful projects into well-documented advice alongside case studies.” The problem? Fleishman turned to Kickstarter to
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Image courtesy of Crossett Library Click here to view this gallery. Famed pop art icon Andy Warhol is perhaps best remembered for soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, but before the eccentric artist gained fame for his paintings, he worked as an commercial illustrator. To celebrate what would have been Warhol’s 84th birthday on August 6th,
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In a development that would make even Comic Book Guy proud, digital comic book platform comiXology is teaming up with Matt Groening’s Bongo Comics to bring America’s favorite family to the iPad. The partners announced the Simpsons Comics app for iOS, available today, at a panel at this week’s San Diego Comic-Con. The iOS app
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Come fall, the glossy book jackets of every new Simon & Schuster hardcover and trade paperback will feature a QR code in an effort to bolster newsletter signups. Scanning a code will send consumers to an author’s mobile page on S&S’s website. There, they are encouraged to sign up for email alerts, browse the author’s
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