Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications. Scribd turns page from document sharing to selling Scribd’s biggest advantage is a system that will allow any document bought from its store to be read on different gadgets – a personal computer, an electronic book reader like Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle or a sophisticated mobile phone. […]

Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications. Has Google killed the riddle? (by Abraham Veghese) Which is why when I offered a new riddle to my students last week while we were rounding, I emphatically added, “Don’t Google!” Nothing at all against Google–we’re proud of Google at Stanford, and indeed my kid brother works there. But […]

Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications. Does Hunch Have All The Answers? Flickr Founder’s New Startup The site revolves around helping users make decisions spanning a wide array of topics. To help users make their decisions, Hunch presents them with a brief series of questions that have been submitted by other members, […]