04-29-2010, 05:48 PM | #1 |
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Dear Sony, have you heard of Facebook and Twitter?
So, news has it that the Kindle will be sporting a new feature that will allow you to share book passages on Facebook and Twitter. Seems like this is something that can be added to the Sony Daily Edition as well...
Any one in the know think Sony will be releasing this type of feature any time soon? How about we make some noise... |
04-29-2010, 06:25 PM | #2 |
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Interesting especially since I think the 900 won't even let you export entire passages out of it due to possible copyright issues.
Disclaimer: I don't know this for a fact since I don't own a 900. Just thought I saw it mentioned in the forums. |
04-29-2010, 07:17 PM | #3 |
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Well, if you highlight text in the 900, you can use Sony's software to export the highlighted text to an RTF document. I don't think there are copyright violations, unless you are claiming to have written the text. Sony could make it so that the author and title tags are automatically uploaded to Facebook along with the text you want to share. Just thinking outloud here...
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05-12-2010, 05:56 PM | #4 |
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Thanks for the correction. At first, I thought Sony only allowed you to export portions of hightlighted text, not entire passages. Since, what would stop somone from highlighting an entiring DRMed book and then exporting it into RTF and then reconverting and making it DRM free?
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05-15-2010, 12:46 AM | #5 |
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How about we do not turn every of our devices TWITTERed, or FACEBOOKed?
It seems every digial handset is trying to embed twitter/facebook? Is that necessary? We really need to share and share all the time? Should everything be connected to internet entirely? Also ,definitely, internet functions always drain battery out more quickly, if you prefer your readers like your smartphones to carry 2 batteries everyday and charge it everyday? We might need some quiet and secluded applications, like reading those books. And it might be joyful to temporarily disconnect from internet for a while. |
05-15-2010, 01:38 AM | #6 |
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I think Sony ought to do it if only for the sake of jumping on the bandwagon.
But Sony has always been setting its own trends, for better or worse. I wouldn't be holding my breath waiting for these features to come out ... |
05-15-2010, 03:57 PM | #7 | |
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I joined Facebook to keep up with some family and friends and find some old friends I haven't seen in 20+ years. But it turns out that Facebook is little more than a personal data miner and that it purposely makes it extremely difficult for users to curtail what data is being shared. Not only does Facebook share your data, but it has the nasty habit of sharing your Facebook friends' data too. I would not be surprised to see a Congressional investigation or even a criminal investigation by the US AG in the next few weeks. I chose for the moment to stop all postings to my Facebook wall and stop all sharing of info except with personal friends, but who knows if Facebook is sharing the info anyway? I'll probably cancel my account eventually. |
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05-15-2010, 09:33 PM | #8 |
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I share your concern about Facebook. You have to tweak privacy, application, and account settings. Many default settings are alarming.
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05-15-2010, 11:06 PM | #9 |
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I personally don't care about it, but I am an older guy and don't really see the need to do this. I do go to Facebook, but I have never found sections of a book I wanted to share on a web site.
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05-16-2010, 12:42 AM | #10 | |
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05-16-2010, 01:44 AM | #11 |
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so...all the new readers and iPads and alike out or soon to be out and the latest and greatest coming for the Kindle is to share passages on Twitter?
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05-16-2010, 05:22 AM | #13 |
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No need for Facebook or Twitter on ANY Sony reader.
Do you really trust any of them ? Heard of the latest Google joke in Germany ? They collected part of private emails and other informations while scanning WLANs as part of the StreetView project. Although they told everybody since years they will never ever do so. Just take pictures capture SSIDs but no more. If so what's the use for FB or Twitter of your PRS ? Switch on your PC or laptop or netbook or iPad or iPhone or whatever. Now, lets read some eBooks.... |
05-16-2010, 06:52 AM | #14 | |
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Everything just like drug to get people addicted. Internet/ Email / Car, you can not get rid of them for merely a number of days. Sometimes I just doubt how much information one ought to share with others, if you do not share, anything will change? Any sense that we need to know each other's action always in a real-time manner? Those produce too much waste of our languages and energy. And make us feel fearful when we are alone, and disconnect from the outer world for a while. Blog/ Twitter/ Facebook will go to their opposite extreme, when people get really tired, they will find, reading quietly oneself is perhaps the most enjoyable matter of life. Let's hope Sony will not get lost, and keep their products in a right direction. |
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