Kindle has recently released update 2.5.4 which gives users social media enhancements. Facebook and Twitter capabilities are available now. Although not easily found and extra steps are necessary to access it is still a cool feature to have.

Taking tweets one step further with the Kindle you can highlight passages or quotes from the current book you are reading and tweet that to your followers. You are able to tweet a passage of any size due to Twitter taking the information and creates a link to the passage and subsequent Amazon page which in turn features the book cover image and title for you. Along next to Twitter there is also the Facebook sharing option.

Today, Google called attention to Josef Frank's 125th birthday.  Josef Frank was an Austrian architect who is most known for his textile designs.


He was apart of the "Vienna Circle" a group of philosophers who were tied to a schola from the Vienne University in 1922.  The main tenets of the group are that experience in the only knowledge and that the way to solve philosophical problems is by using logical analysis through symbolic logic.