MagCloud.com
    HP is trying to reinvent the world of magazine publishing with wholly-owned 
  
MagCloud.com, a Web site and system that 
  makes it almost as easy to publish a magazine as it is for an amateur (to be 
  kind) writer to blog. 
That's pretty cool, but what's cooler is that the site is testing 
  out Azure, Microsoft's new cloud platform. 
MagCloud.com uses HP printing technology to print these rags on the fly. I've 
  long had what I think is a better idea: Have home printers built to print magazines 
  and Web sites formatted as magazines. 
Here's what I wrote 
  in April 2007: "I think the computer industry can and should save print, 
  and here's how. We get HP, Lexmark and all the other printer companies to make 
  inexpensive printers that can take a digital publication, print it in all its 
  four-color glory, staple it and let you take it to where the real learning takes 
  place -- the bathroom." 
 
	
Posted by Doug Barney on November 04, 2008