Rise above the Crowd
Posted in eBooks on Jul 25th, 2011
Many of our clients at MetaPlume are Chinese business people or companies wanting to market their products online to a Western audience. These astute business people understand that building up a website and online profile that will speak to the US or European market, involves language (quite obviously) and messaging that needs the developer/designer/writer to [...]
At MetaPlume, we’ve been publishing eBooks on Amazon, Lulu and Smashwords that are about getting the most out of an Android powered smartphone or tablet. Titles have included: The Top Ten Free Android Apps for Weight Loss Top Ten Apps for Customizing Android Top Ten System Tools for Android … you get the idea. I [...]
Posted in General on Jul 19th, 2011
On Sunday I went to my parent’s house and we sat around an open fire for a few hours in the afternoon, filling in my and our family tree on Ancestry.com.au. Both of my parents have already spent a lot of time tracing the family history. They both have reams of paperwork tracing back several [...]
Posted in General on Jul 18th, 2011
When I was on the treadmill at the gym this morning I was listening to a podcast on my iPhone about over-population issues (Dick Smith being interviewed), but of course the wall of TVs was right in front of me and I was glancing up at the never ending stream of ads and early morning [...]
Posted in General on Jul 13th, 2011
eBay made people realize that you can sell products online without much setup time or any real overheads. Then suppliers realized that to get their products sold in as many places as possible, the easiest option is to offer to handle the goods for the online seller. Now, for a lot of online shops, they [...]
Posted in eBooks on Jul 12th, 2011
The first e-reader with native support for the Google eBookstore will be available in the US this Sunday in Target stores. Just like the Android OS for smartphones and tablet PCs, the Google eBooks platform is open source and this first device by iriver is sure to end up being one of many. As a [...]
Posted in eBooks on Jul 11th, 2011
When it comes to eBooks, the focus of discussion is most often on fiction authors and self-publishing success stories, and how this is impacting the publishing industry. When it comes to nonfiction the discussion turns to subscription models for magazines and newspapers. A far more interesting topic is the fresh options for publishing in the [...]
Posted in eBooks on Jul 6th, 2011
Having won an auction on eBay last week, my new secondhand Sansung Galaxy S arrived today, restored to factory defaults and ready for an onsalught of app downloads. My primary testing device up till now has been an ePad tablet PC, also an eBay purchase. What I’ve found, however, is that most Android apps are [...]
Posted in eBooks on Jul 5th, 2011
You know when you’ve been flitting around the Internet researching something for so long that your eyes dry out from the abuse of looking at monitors for too long and the right side of your right hand has started to ache from too much mouse work? That’s me right now. Before I face up to [...]
Posted in Android on Jul 1st, 2011
When you see a void in a service area and feel confident that you can fill it you’d be mad not to take up the opportunity. And so it was that MetaPlume decided to develop an app that presents quality book news, reviews, best seller lists, podcasts and blogs in an Android app. There are [...]
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