Al Gore Joins Ex-Apple Engineers To Reinvent The E-book [‘Climate Crisis’ e-Book ]

Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 01 May 2011 | Shane Richmond, Head of Technology

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Al Gore has teamed up with two former Apple engineers to create an app that aims to redefine the ebook.

Push Pop Press, a company set up by former Apple employees Kimon Tsinteris and Mike Matas, has published Our Choice, an app version of Gore’s 2009 book about global warming.

The app, according to Push Pop Press, “will change the way we read books”. It combines high quality photography with interactive graphics and animations. There is narration from Gore himself and more than an hour of video.

The Push Pop Press publishing platform “opens doors to telling a story with more photos, more videos and interactions,” Matas told Wired magazine.

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Al Gore's Climate Crisis’ e-Book (with video)

I just noticed Gore's new app [approximatley $5.00 so is costly compared to the majority of popular apps] via a promotional Big ad at the top of the Apple iTunes page, when I logged into the iTunes store yesterday. Reminded me of Google Earth.

Kimon Tsinteris: PushPopPress Born in Athens, Greece, graduated from Cornell University’s Engineering program with a BS in Computer Science and have developed software for two industry leaders. In 2002, joined Microsoft to ship Windows SharePoint Services v2 & v3. At Apple since 2005, I shipped Mac OS X Mail 10.5. Then as a senior engineer on the iPhone team, I shipped Maps for iPhone & iPad.

After iPad, the time was right. I left Apple to cofound Push Pop Press.

Mike Matas-23-year old designer from the United States, currently living in San Francisco. He’s best known for his design work on the original Delicious Library, and working at Apple, designing key parts of Mac OS X and iPhone OS. He’s even been listed as co-inventor on patents Apple has filed. In 2009, he left Apple. Lately, he uploads his photography skills to his website and blog, mikematas.com.
Interview:

http://blog.cocoia.com/2010/interview-mike-matas/

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[blueplum]

Gore must be finding it difficult to maintain his expansive property in California with no employment prospects. Shilling a book based on his discredited speaking tour is an act of desperation.

[Jonty30]

If Apple ever put this on my Ipad, without my permission, I’d want to know about how many times I could skip it across the nearest lake.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx for the ping AAC !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Psycho_Bunny]

Seems like no one’s told Al how destructive computer production is for the environment.

But, like every other hypocrite.........

[truthguy]

If Apple ever put this on my Ipad, without my permission,

If people here only knew how many left wing lunatic social policies Apple supports, they wouldn't get within a mile of their products. I've never purchased any Apple product of any type and never will. They may be slightly ahead in a couple of talking head technologies and they are the preferred product by the chattering classes, but there are many better alternatives to their products. There is nothing they make where you cannot get as good or better alternatives. When you support Apple, you support the Left. And I know whereof I speak. You can you say about a company that has Al Gore on it's board of directors.

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Apple has been named the “least green” technology company by Greenpeace

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Al Gore On Board Of Directors of the Least Green TEch Company: Apple!
http://thehivedaily.com/blog/2011/04/21/al-gore-on-board-of-directors-of-the-least-green-tech-company-apple/

Greenpeace’s report, How Dirty is Your Data? reveals that the company’s investment in a new North Carolina facility will triple its electricity consumption, equivalent to the electricity demand of 80,000 average US homes. The facility’s power will be supplied by Duke Energy, with a mix of 62% coal and 32% nuclear.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Mein Kampf II.

[texmexis best]

I am really impressed with the number of innovative ways Al Gore can beat...the dead horse.

[BunnySlippers]

Very cool!

[kempo]

The APP store sent me an email about this app. I replied “ Don't ever email me anything that has Al Gores name on it”

I just wonder how many replied with something similar.

[Cacique]

That’s not reading, it’s passively being fed video and pictures without allowing for imagination or critical thought. Just what they ordered for our critically illiterate students churned out by public education.

[RoadTest]

This is like TV in that the technology is great but the content is vapid.

[popdonnelly]

Electronic propaganda.

[ironborne]

Gore has peaked. This is a desperate attempt at trying to remain relevant. Of course there might be a few ostriches who have never heard about his Inconvenient Movie so they might yet be fooled via App.

[USMCPOP]

“That’s not reading, it’s passively being fed video and pictures without allowing for imagination or critical thought. Just what they ordered for our critically illiterate students churned out by public education.”

Programming at it’s finest. Mind programming, that is.

[Karliner]

E-Trash in third world countries, Owlgorelovesthis sh**

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"public education"

Students in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) have been made use of them in the classroom for an entire school year. gove.tech

Two hundred schools applied for grants that were valued at more than $20,000. Each grant includes 32 iPads, one MacBook Pro for syncing purposes, $200 in iTunes credit for applications and a storage cart for the hardware.