Posts Tagged with ‘amazon’

Today news comes to us that Amazon has finally acquired the social network for bibliophiles Shelfari. Amazon has been a long-time supporter of the Seattle-based startup with its investment of September 2007 but the relationships now move to the higher level with the acquisition.
Shelfari developers do not disclose either the acquisition amount or what exactly the plans are for after the acquisition is completed - just mentioning that “there are a lot of new opportunities in the future that will [...]

Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks reports that Amazon has published an announcement regarding last weekend's outage of Amazon S3 services. For those of you who were neither affected, nor cared, I'd want to remind that S3 is Amazon's service that provides hosting and storage for web applications - to a certain extent for free. And last weekend the service experienced an outage of the whole 8 hours - and that with very poor communication on behalf of the [...]

Google, this is Amazon. I was wondering if you could show Amazon what an algorithm is and how to properly use one.
You see, Google, I've been an Amazon customer since 1996. I realize that due to my constant changing of ISPs in the late 90s, I lost my first account, but still, you'd think that 10 years of ordering history in this account would give Amazon an idea of what I might want to buy.
Instead, Amazon here is relying on [...]

I am in love.
I realize that most of the apps that I absolutely go nuts over tend to have nice visuals. Use those nice visuals as an overlay on something I'm already loving and you just may have yourselves a hit. I'm a big Amazon fan, but I never browse there; I visit the site for specific things and then buy them. I may look at the suggestions they give once I've added an item to my cart, but even [...]

In the ongoing Internet war, we have Gen X/Web 1.0 refugees on one side, and Gen Y/Web 2.0 upstarts on the other. No matter where I turn, there is always some new debate about which one has done more; which one is a true bubble. The typical Web 2.0 defense goes something like this:
The big difference "this time around" is that there is some really exciting technology coming out of the web interactivity boom, and regardless of the fate of [...]

Apparently, Viewzi had its private beta launch when I was in San Francisco for Web 2.0 Expo, because how I missed it, I have no idea. I've never been a big fan of visual search, but I'm always willing to give it a try, going in with the expectation that I'll be doing a lot of eye-rolling. Viewzi was a pleasant surprise.
Viewzi is a new way of looking at visual search: it realizes that not all searches are the same. [...]

Pretty much everyone who uses the internet has visited (or at least heard of) eBay, which has long been the top online auction marketplace. There are now thousands of business-minded people around the globe whose livelihood now depends solely on eBay and for good reason. Buyers can find the most rare of items, and sellers can find a buyer for the most obscure merchandise. But, eBay has been struggling since the explosion of the web 2.0 era, and other marketplace's [...]

By now everyone is familiar with the RIAA and their collective belief that everyone online is a thief, stealing music every which way we can. The recording industry has been fighting to prove that even the premise of “making available,” putting music out there to share with no proof it's ever been downloaded, is still a violation of copyright laws, and that all the digital sharing results in nothing but losses for the music industry.
The Web 2.0 music sites beg [...]

If it wasn't for Carla Thompson's Tweet this morning, the announcement that Piggly Wiggly had selected MyWebGrocer to provide an interactive weekly circular, online shopping list, personalized marketing, advertising, social networking, and full-sale online grocery shopping for 10 stores would have completely escaped my notice. And when it comes to press releases, I can see why; instead of touting full-sale online shopping (as it should have), it showcases the buzzwords of "online shopping list" and "social networking." Welcome to the [...]