A great book to kick-start breakthrough thinking.

This had to be the first entry in the “Things to read” category.

Here are a couple of Flash page flipping commercial tools that could be useful:

• FlippingBook

• Flash Page Flip

And the O’Reilly page on The Page Turn Effect in Flash MX

The primary Open Source option at this point is Apache’s Solr which grew on top of Lucene

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I mentionned IDEO to a few people already as an example of product design firm. Many product design firms have the concept of un-learning as part of their methodology. I think for us the opportunity is to un-learn what we know about libraries and the broader world of books, authors, publishers, information asssets, etc.

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With the emergence of large scale multi-touch screens we may be able to create a life-size digital bookshelf. See the following pointers:

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In keeping with Technical traditions, we’ll have our first post titled “Hello World!”. I used the “Mandigo” theme, but we can decide to change this along with many other configuration options on the blog… Blog away!…