Posts Tagged with ‘amazon’

Last night, when the news of Google App Engine hit the web, I was hobbled with DNS issues that left me able to watch the Twitter stream but unable to read any of the details. Waking up this morning and finding all the Twitterati still throwing confetti, I'm starting to feel that I'm a lone dissenter when I say that I don't think Google App Engine is going to be good for the Web.
Just yesterday, Hank Williams followed up his [...]

At the risk of making enemies, I'm one of the only people I've seen so far today not jumping up and down with excitement at Seesmic's purchase of Twhirl. I like the idea of Seesmic, even if I'm a videophobe myself. And I love Twhirl, and use it every second that I'm online.
Here's my issue with all these exciting mergers and buyouts and why I can't hop up and down: you have a start-up that doesn't sell anything buying another [...]

The mobile phone market is growing at an astounding rate, and there is a lot of potential in the mobile market considering how fast-paced and on-the-go our society has become. Amazon's newly launched mobile shopping experience, known as TextBuyIt, utilizes SMS text messaging to allow users to quickly find results from within Amazon's expansive product database.
By texting a product name, description or UPC/ISBN code to 262966 (AMAZON) from any cell phone, anywhere, users will be able to make use of [...]

There's been a story today that virtually every blog has been tiptoeing around but not addressing, except for Drama 2.0, but we know how much he likes to rub our noses in any possible popping of the bubble. The story, as Reuters tells it, is that venture capital into Web 2.0 start-ups is slowing down.
In the Dow Jones VentureSource report cited, they point out that VC for Web 2.0 companies only grew by 25% in 2007, from 143 to 178 [...]

A huge proportion of tech news has to do with online advertising: studies on its efficacy, technologies for serving ads, ad revenue ups and downs, and acquisitions having to do with any of those. The reality, however, is that we don't know much about how to really leverage online advertising, and we have a lot to learn.
What set me off to begin with was an opinion piece on WSJ.com by Esther Dyson, which hovered near getting it, but ultimately [...]

Still half out of it recovering from the flu, I caught a few blips crossing my Twitter stream about Jaiku being down. I yawned, assumed some server farm somewhere tanked, and haphazardly clicked a link to check it out.
Yep, Jaiku is down. Only, it's not. The site is up, which means something is working somewhere, but the reason is “two disks kicked the bucket.”
Occasionally I have to consult with people still doing web app development to see how far [...]

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer must be jealous of the media attention received by the man filling his Attorney General shoes got this week with the passage this week of the pointless E-Stop legislation. That's the only explanation I can think of for his new plan to require companies to collect New York State sales tax for online purchases if they have $10,000 or more in sales in the state, even if they don't have a brick-and-mortar store there.
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After my initial skepticism, I decided that Amazon's Kindle was going on my dream list of electronics. I never seem to have a book when I want it, and sometimes I'm just tired of reading whatever paperback I haven't removed from my bag or my news feeds. However, the Kindle's one-two punch of hardware pricing added on to book pricing ($399 for the Kindle plus, say, 50 books at an average of $10 a piece?) puts it out of my [...]

For a long time bookseller Borders has been saddled with an affiliation to Amazon. Amazon has run its web site, leaving Borders to run its offline stores. This year Borders has been given back control of its web site by Amazon, and is in the process of developing a new site, currently in beta, that will launch in alpha on February 1st of this year.
This is Borders' chance to break the mold of Amazon and introduce Web 2.0 [...]