2010년 5월 4일 화요일

아마존 킨들의 SNS 껴안기.

 

아마존닷컴의 전자책(e북) ‘킨들’이 소셜네트워크사이트(SNS) 이용 기능을 지원한다.

 

AP는 3일 아마존이 킨들 2.5 소프트웨어 갱신(업데이트)을 통해 킨들에서 트위터, 페이스북 등 SNS를 사용할 수 있도록 업그레이드할 계획이라고 보도했다.

 

오는 5월 말까지 킨들 사용자는 누구나 자동으로 새 소프트웨어를 다운로드 받을 수 있으며 자동실행과정을 통해 업그레이드된 서비스를 즐길 수 있다.

 

킨들 2.5 소프트웨어는 킨들 사용자가 자신이 읽은 e북 본문을 트위터와 페이스북을 통해 공유할 수 있도록 설계됐다. 또 책이나 문서파일을 카테고리화 할 수 있어 ‘나만의 디지털 도서관’을 만들 수 있다. 킨들 커뮤니티를 통해 다른 사용자들이 자주 다운로드 받는 책이나 감명깊게 읽은 도서 등 정보를 공유할 수 있다.

 

이와 함께 비밀번호 설정기능을 추가해 개인 정보 관리를 한층 강화했다. 고령의 사용자를 위해 2종류의 크고 읽기 쉬운 폰트를 추가했으며 도서나 문서에 들어있는 사진이나 표 등을 확대할 수도 있다.

 

제프 베르톨루시 PC월드 칼럼니스트는 “이번 업데이트는 다양한 기능을 가진 ‘아이패드’ 등을 의식해 이뤄진 것으로 보인다”며 “킨들 특유의 기능을 소셜 미디어와 결합해 독특할 뿐 아니라 사용하기도 편리하다”고 말했다.

 

> 출처: 이티뉴스

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Did Amazon's Social Networking Injection Just Kill the Kindle's Killer Feature?

BY Kit EatonToday


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So Amazon revealed the details of its Kindle firmware update for May--a doozy if you're into reading e-books and social networking simultaneously. But with the Kindle's main charm being its status as a single purpose device, did Amazon just screw the pooch?

The Kindle firmware 2.5 has two new bigger-size fonts and better font "sharpness" which is a boost to its readability and accessibility, but the big take-away is the social networking hooks dotted throughout the code. This means you can easily share your highlighted passages or quotes with your digitally connected friends (though only up to 140 characters on the Twitter feed, folks. Keep 'em pithy!). It's far more than a tweak to the device, and it'll transform the platform into much less of a lonely user experience.

The Kindle's (2 or DX) main strengths are the e-ink display, the battery life, the Amazon ecosystem, and the massive simplicity of the single purpose device. Over time, most of these pluses have been seriously eroded. There's debate about the benefits of e-ink screens, and it's largely a matter of personal taste--the irritating slow wipe/refresh effect is annoying to some, and it precludes any serious attempts at having dynamic imagery (for smart textbook uses, for example). Apple's ecosystem for the iPad is almost as strong as Amazon's is, in e-books, has even forced Amazon to rethink its business model, and offers a huge array of extras. Even Barnes and Noble's Nook ecosystem is impressive. The battery life of the iPad roars in at around 10 hours, and that's if you're using Wi-Fi a lot, running video, and surfing the Web, all of which you can't do on the Kindle.

In fact, possibly the most saleable quality of the Kindle (and its horde of cheaper, and some may say better, cloned single-purpose e-readers) is its simplicity. If you're seriously into books, and like tech, this is the device for you. You don't want the expense and sophistication of the iPad, with its distracting social networking powers and alluring games--you just want a reliable, one-task machine. Forget all these social hooks, and the potential future horrors of push email over Whispernet.

And yet Amazon, in a desperate bid to keep up with the glamorous temptations of the tablet PC, has just sunk this one big advantage of its e-reader. Sure, you'll be able to turn these extras off...but Amazon will be bolting more facilities into the Kindle as time goes by, and they haven't even optimized the core tech of the thing yet. This is the lesson Amazon should be learning from Apple, with its initially pure-purpose iPods, and its slowness in adding in video to the iPhone: Get the killer core features first, and then add in the fancy stuff.

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