Amazon Kindle to be made available to US and UK on August 27

The battle of eReader has officially started and Amazon Kindle has challenged other existing eReaders around by launching two new designs that fit every need and budget. Amazon is expected to make the reading device available by August 27 in the US and the UK. Two options are available for the enthusiasts: $139 WiF- only version and the $189 3G version with AT&T as provider.

Although the screen size remains the same, some of the improvements include speed which makes the pages turn faster, and color and light contrast. The device’s storage system was also lauded at 4GB even though others have predicted it to be higher than that. If used with wireless connectivity, the battery life can now last 10 days but impressively one month if used plainly for reading. UK plans to sell a local-version at £109 and £149 respectively.

If you’ve come to scrutinize the new Amazon Kindle model, you’ll see quite small changes in the keyboard and the five-way controls. You’ll probably get to experience the Webkit-based browser but not to the point of appreciating it more than the above more-important enhancements. It might be facing stiff competition with Apple’s iPad and Dell’s Streak and Sony Reader and is criticized for not following iPad’s touch-screen concept but Amazon is still resolved to keeping the device as simple as possible and solely intended to ‘reading’. Taking from Jeff Bezos words of wisdom about the product, he said,

“For the vast majority of books, adding video and animation is not going to be helpful. It is distracting rather than enhancing. You are not going to improve Hemingway by adding video snippets,” adding later, “there are going to be 100 companies making LCD [screen] tablets… why would we want to be 101? I like building a purpose-built reading device. I think that is where we can make a real contribution.”

I can’t agree more to that. But if you’ll check to see how the new Amazon Kindle works, you’ll notice that the device has become sleeker and more sensitive to commands. See you in-stores this August!

If you are a religious follower of microblogging giant Twitter you may start seeing a new feature under the Find People link that will allow you to follow Twitter account user/s. These users form part of the ‘personalized recommendations’ which are generated based on the people you follow including the people they follow as well. If you’ll click on the Find People, you can find the suggested users under the “Suggestions for You” tab. It may also show up when you visit other people’s Twitter account or profile.

The company will soon make such feature available for developers to use. By doing so, the functionality will soon be included in third-party applications as used in mobile phones and other electronic devices. Early this year, you’ve probably seen your Twitter display people results every time people use the search results. Suggested User List was also used to new Twitter users before along with the follow by area options but soon was withdrawn in favour of the latter.

The also brought another issue that’s been circulating around the social media environment about the rumoured Twitter feature where the company will require payment should a Twitter user wanted to have more followers and therefore gain more web presence on the Internet.

Social media indeed knows no boundaries as proven by the coolest 104-year old person in the planet, Ms. Ivy Bean who died just recently. But even after her demise, her more than 60,000 followers at Twitter are still buzzing about how Ms. Bean had been so active with more than 1,000 tweets. It was quite impressive how this sensational lady was able to have so many people following her account when it was only a year ago that she joined the renowned world of Twitter.com! And now, she has popular celebrities like Chris Evans following her tweets which are mostly about everyday lives of friends and of her own.

She joined the world of virtual reality through Facebook a couple of years ago where she gained almost 5,000 friends before leveling up to Twitter. This sensational lady made quite a stir in the cybernetwork but one might wonder – who was Ivy Bean, really?  Well, she was a British retiree who lived in a care facility after her husband died. This is where she first accessed the Internet and became hooked ever since.

She recounted her days at the care home, tweeting when she was sick and tweeting when she gained back her health. This kept on until she acquired an illness in her liver where her tweets became less frequent. Her condition worsened and she died at the ripe age of 104 yesterday. Your followers will surely miss your tweets Ms. Ivy Bean!

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