Category Archives: Gadgets

What If Amazon Could Care Less About the Apple Tablet

By Kit | Published: January 21, 2010
The last two days, Amazon has made a couple of announcements regarding the Kindle. The first is that they have raised the royalty that will be received by publishers to 70% and the second is that they will be making an SDK available. The spin on the street is that they are doing so because [...]
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I Learned Everything I Know from Bento Porn

By Kit | Published: August 27, 2008
Something strange happened today, and it seemed noteworthy so I relate it here. I have begun bringing my lunch to work (save money, eat better, blah bitty blah blah) and my vessel of choice is Mr. Bento. Mr. Bento is a tremendous modern (and Japanese!) replacement for the lunchbox: a bullet shaped container with four [...]
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The Academic eBook Reader

By Kit | Published: August 26, 2008
Rumor has it that Amazon may be releasing their Kindle eBook reader in a modified format for the academic market. Having been employed by a number of text book publishers, my initial reaction was a gasp and shudder. Upon further reflection, this may just be the innovation that the text book market needs. For a [...]
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Drool Worthy Sites

By Kit | Published: August 25, 2008
The culinary industry seems to have been slow to embrace the web. While there are a number of notable food bloggers and loads of great recipe sites (a handful of great technique driven sites have been cropping of late as well thanks to the proliferation of video tools), the retail side of things seems to [...]
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What to do About this New Generation

By Kit | Published: July 9, 2008
I know all of the reasoning behind it, but I finally have to come out and say that it is driving me f’ing nuts that the second generation iPhone is being called “iPhone 3G“. This is is especially true in light of the fact that they openly named each successive generation of iPod after it’s [...]
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    This is the weblog of Kit Kemper. It is generally about marketing. Marketing in the sense that pretty much everything you do as a company and more often as a person these days devolves into marketing of some sort or another. It is also about tech in much the same way as it is about marketing, technology touches more of our lives every day and where people, marketing, and technology converge there are some pretty interesting things happening.