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  • App for Our Cause – CSA Awareness App for iPad 

    CSA App By Fliplog



    Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Month – CSAAM – is an annual awareness program organized by a voluntary collective of bloggers and social networks. It aims to break the deafening silence that surrounds this taboo topic. It targets parents, teachers and caregivers of children of both sexes and all ages, offering vital information on CSA, including an online collection of CSA-related resources.

    Fliplog is proud to be associated with the CSA initiative. Our contribution is an app for the iPhone and iPad devices. You can read survivor stories, expert talks, view Twitter updates, news, find videos and many more activities.

    To explore how mobile devices will impact cause based activism, we added feature where readers can participate via doodles. Express-via-doodle is a new way for users to come to terms with uncomfortable subject and still be able to express their feelings.

    But most importantly, please spread the word and participate in whichever form feasible. This is the worst kind of abuse imaginable and it scars our kids for their lives.

    Download from App Store

     

  • Anticipated Amazon Tablet to Take Aim at Apple iPad 

    Drumbeat for Amazon tablet is getting louder by the day. Both Amazon and Apple have completely changed the content consumption game:

    A competition between Amazon and Apple tablets will be a battle that pits the company that created the first popular e-reader (and set off a still-unfolding revolution in how books are consumed) against the company that created the first popular tablet (and set off a revolution in progress about how entertainment and other media are consumed).

     

  • Google Announces Books App in Honeycomb Build 

     

  • Maine School Buys 285 iPad 2s for Pilot Project with Kindergartner Kids 

    Maine school is embarking on an interesting initiative. They are buying 285 iPad 2s and give it to kindergartner kids. In terms of overall cost involved in kindergartner stage, spend on iPad 2 is a small overhead.

    The idea began when teachers who owned iPad noticed a significant improvement in kindergartners — who had previously had trouble learning the alphabet — who were exposed to educational software on the iPad. The device is seen as more portable and less expensive than laptop computers, and more appropriate for the age group’s hands-on use. Officials hope to raise the literacy rates in the district from 62 to 90 percent within two years.

    This is exactly the kind of project we at Fliplog dream about. Download numbers and feedback we have received from users of Hindi app tells us that kids get tremendous amount of learning support from iPad apps. Parents were loving it and now schools are jumping into this adoption game.

     

  • iPad Culture Spreads as BBC Comedy Team Explores iPaditis 

    It’s funny and tells how fast iPad has come into our consciousness.

     

  • Hindi Consonants iPad app on App Store 

    The Hindi consonants app is our latest addition to the Fliplog Learning Series. This is an iPad app to help kids familiarize with Hindi consonants and their sounds. Kids can listen to the sound of the alphabet along with familiar words with the same beginning sound. The app features multi colored doodling to practice writing. The best feature of the app is the fun quiz and the puzzles option. One to recognize the beginning sound of a word and another puzzle to familiarize with the order of the alphabets. The app is free to download. As always, we would love to hear from you and your kids.

     

  • Recommended Read: eBook Buying Guide 

    Mike Cane has a very useful post on eBook buying. Perfect guide to help you out in Christmas season. It’s a must reason if you are planning on buying one.

    [H/T @lizcastro]

     

  • WSJ: eBooks, Next Frontier For Advertising Agencies 

    Now here is something traditionalists won’t like. Idea is gaining traction where advertising agencies and few eBook vendors are planning to test ad units inside an eBook experience:

    The marketing world is drawing up plans to invade one of the last bastions of media that is largely advertising-free: books.
    As e-books proliferate, advertisers are experimenting with ways to pitch to consumers while they read, a trend that could change the publishing business but faces opposition from some traditionalists.

    Marketers are exploring a variety of formats, including sponsorships that give readers free books. Videos, graphics or text with an advertiser’s message that appear when a person first starts a book or along the border of the digital pages are also in the works. Ads can be targeted based on the book’s content and the demographic and profile information of the reader.

    Like everything else on internet nowadays, polarizing people across taste leads to new behavior and hopefully monetization. I am all for it if it leads to more revenue to authors/publishers and lower cost for readers.

     

  • Google Editions is Now Google eBooks. Launched Cloud Based eBook Program 

    After long anticipation, Google today launched it’s ebook service – Google eBooks. Previously this service was branded under Google Editions. Like everything else Google does, this launch is full of scale and ambition. Launch offers 3 million ebooks. That makes Google biggest player in a fast growing eBook market.

    Google eBooks will let reader access ebooks from any device – be it browser, desktop, mobile apps, netbooks and maybe Google TV. There are apps for Android and iPad/iPhone devices as well. Sign up and use of this service will be as familiar an experience as using Gmail or Google Docs. Which means Google is going into this battle with a huge advantage. They are also planning to extend web reader to competing platforms like Sony and Nook.

    Google is also bringing another weapon to the battle – indies! Small booksellers who suffered in the elephant fight between Apple and Amazon can now find some level playing field. Google is allowing these independent booksellers (for now US only – so much for globalization!) to host ebooks for sale. It will be interesting to see how far Google goes to empower Independent booksellers. Can an average joe running book review blog convert that community into bookselling service? Going by Google’s investment in Adsense and Blogger, this should be obvious but we will have to see how this evolves.

    All in all exciting development. We will be test driving this service and wherever possible pushing Fliplog eBooks to Google eBook platform. Exciting time for book lovers!

    Demo video:

    More information:

    Google eBook overview
    Google eBookStore

     

  • Plenty of action in tablet world. Here are few links for your weekend reading

    Financial Times – Old media tackle the challenge of the tablet. Heard for the first time about ‘finishability’ of content on iPad. Apple sold 7.5 million iPads so far.

    Joe Pompeo – Three tablet-based media ventures preparing for take-off. Mentions Nomad Editions, Murdoch’s Daily and Richard Branson’s iPad magazine initiative.

     

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