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I use Slicehost and typically provision Debian Lenny. But, after trying to install Beanstalkd, I found out that Lenny doesn't support the required package, libevent-dev (1.4+). Time to upgrade my slice to Squeeze.
Here's how to do it:
Edit sources.list
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Change any word Lenny to Squeeze, (or from stable to testing) and save it. Backup [...]
…In effect, Macmillan is trying to do exactly the same thing that many other media companies are desperate to do — from newspapers to music labels to movie companies — which is to replicate the pricing model of an analog, real-world business in digital form.
In other words, (windowing) tries to artificially reproduce the kind [...]
Looking to turn its e-publishing expertise into a new business, O’Reilly Media is launching O’Reilly Digital Distribution, a new division offering publishers a complete e-book publishing service. Starting with text conversion, O’Reilly Digital Distribution can output files in any format for any device or e-reader and market and distribute the e-titles though [...]
KiwiTech is a mobile app services firm and was established in January 2009 in Washington DC by the founders of Aptara (formerly TechBooks).
We are now starting up our offices in Noida (Sector 4) and are working with a variety of European clients, including Spanish publishers. Our services include developing mobile (iPhone) apps for our [...]
Elizabeth Weiss: “Look, this is nothing less than a revolution. This is going from an analogue world to a digital world. To think that we will reinvent ourselves once and that will be that would be an illusion, this is going to happen many, many times and the only thing that’s constant is rapid change.”
Stephen [...]
PubFactory is a digital publishing platform that emerges from iFactory’s many years of solving their clients’ pressing Web publishing demands, alongside iFactory’s habit of throwing in a few extra-demanding capabilities of their own. They’ve taken what they’ve figured out and rationalized the process into a platform, and the platform is impressive.
PubFactory is content online [...]
Gilbane-Beacon-DigitalMarketing-Nstein-11-09.pdf (573 KB)View this on posterous
From the introduction:
". . . Internet marketing will increase at the expense of traditional advertising, which is predicted to decline. This means that digital marketers will clearly be challenged to bring in the lion’s share of new customers and revenues. . . .
"Gilbane believes that digital marketing managers can [...]
Gilbane-Beyond-eBook-May-09.pdf (2412 KB)View this on posterous
By Steve Paxhia & Bill TrippeSource: http://gilbane.com
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