Archive for the ‘Magazines’ Category
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
This is a subset of my list that has all titles as of November, 2009, when Google announced that they would provide their own list. The titles below are my subjective picks, based on generality of interest and/or length of availability.
American Motorcyclist, Feb 1955 – July 2005
Backpacker, Spring 1973 – ...
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
John C. Abell, in his recent Wired article Steve Jobs’ Legacy Is the Missing Clue to the Apple Tablet, suggests that in the same way that he invigorated animated film with Pixar, the music industry with iTunes, and the mobile phone market with the iPhone, Jobs' next mission is to ...
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
The recently announced addition of thumbnail navigation to Google Book Search is, unfortunately, only available for full-view. But all magazines in GBS are full-view, so thumbnails are especially useful for them, since [because] they have so many pictures. To use thumnails, go to Read this Magazine (or Book), and click ...
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
In Dec, 2008, Google announced that they had begun adding recent popular magazines to Google Book Search. Because Google, inexplicably, chose not to provide a list of titles that were included, I made a list of about 40 titles, and until recently I hadn't added to it, assuming that Google ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Adam Hodgkin, in Google Pictures and Google Books, wonders why Google has chosen to put Prado paintings in Google Earth rather than in Google Images. In December I asked a similar question about Google's putting Life Magazine pictures in Google Images, but putting other picture-laden magazines in Google Books. And, ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
A month ago, Google announced that it has begun putting magazines in Google Books. In one way, this is a new direction for Google. But looked at broadly, it’s really not so new — Google has been putting old journals in Google Books for a long time. The basic ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Until now, books with pictures, especially color pictures, have been a relatively small part of Google Books. But the addition of highly visual, popular magazines changes this -- The titles added so far are filled with pictures!
On one level, more pictures in Google Books is gratifying -- a theme ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
When I started this list in Dec, 2008, Google did not provide a list of their own -- Thankfully, they provided one in Nov, 2009 (their announcement is Here, their list is Here). Assuming they keep up their list, I will probably not add to the list provided here. Comparing ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Maps and newspapers, because they're rich in graphic information, benefit greatly from a zooming and panning interface. Text-only books, because they're more linear and because text is easily searchable, don't benefit from this sort of interface as much, but books with pictures certainly do.
zKimmer.com has recently implemented Google Maps technology ...
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