This is a video review of Amazon's newest 6" eReader, the Kindle 3. It features a high contrast Pearl e-Ink display that's much more readable under low light. The 3rd gen Kindle is also smaller and lighter than the Kindle 2. It now has a web-kit web browser, improved PDF handling.

In the last 48hrs Facebook has launched ‘Facebook Places’.

I have done some quick research on what has been said, there are mixed reviews but largely due to the privacy issues & Facebooks’s aggressive approach of always making these features ‘active by default’. However there is no doubt that this could become a massive game changer if even a ¼ of the 500 million Facebook users begin to utilize it.

I have included links and snippets of relevant articles below – failing that just Google ‘Facebook places’

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The Diesel eBook Team has put together a timeline featuring the important milestones in the brief history of eBooks.

On Tuesday, Penguin released the first electronic book with a video tie-in, opening up a new chapter for ebooks. Penguin Books’ CEO, John Makinson gave an overview of how publishers might approach the iPad as a publishing platform.  They hope that this deal will serve as a model for other cross-media partnerships.