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Rex Hammock’s RexBlog.com
The blog of Rex Hammock, founder/ceo of Hammock Inc., the content marketing, strategy and media company founded in 1991 in Nashville, Tenn. Rex is also founder/helper-in-chief of the wiki, SmallBusiness.com.
RexBlog.com was created in August, 2000.
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Category Archives: iPad
Perfectionism Schmerfectionism
One of the things we were led to believe in 2011 was a myth about Steve Jobs being a perfectionist. This myth was given a free pass by everyone from The New Yorker on down. In reality, his perfectionism, while … Continue reading
Posted in apple, iPad, iphone, ipod
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The Kindle Fire vs. the Apple iPad isn’t really a vs.
Starting this week, customers start receiving the new 7″ touch-screen Android device from Amazon called the Kindle Fire. As with anything that suggests a company could challenge Apple in a market it dominates, I predict you will be subjected to … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, apple, iPad, kindle
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These Kindle Fire children’s books are not just ebooks, they’re apps
When the Hammock children, both now over two-decades old, were brand new, they were never more than a few inches away from an Eric Carle book. (The Very Hungry Caterpillar* is likely the book I have read out-loud more times … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, books, iPad, kindle, publishing
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Competition is good: Bring back the iRex
This post is for those among the 12 people who read this blog who heard about the new Kindle Fire* by reading it in your local daily newspaper and who are likely seeing this about a week after it was written, … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, apple, iPad, kindle
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It’s the words and photos, not bells and whistles, that make reading-media work
If I had time, I’d write a post that would reflect on what Patricio Robles says here and what Khoi Vinh said here. Short version (and, with apologies, some inside baseball): Condé Nast’s most successful magazine iPad app is the … Continue reading
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