Posts Tagged with ‘amazon’

Amazon today announced that its completely DRM-free catalog of MP3 downloads was expanded through the addition of Sony BMG music, which should be available to consumers by the end of the month.
With all four major music labels now on board, it looks like AmazonMP3 can now be considered a real threat to iTunes and its more limited variety of DRM-free music (over 3 million at AmazonMP3 compared to just 2 million at iTunes). “All four major labels will [...]

I've heard dribs and drabs of news about Spokeo over the past year, but it took a push from Guy Kawasaki's blog over the holidays to actually get me to log in and check it out.
Spokeo, if you haven't heard about it, is an all-in-one aggregator for all your social networking sites, from Amazon wishlists to YouTube videos. In all, 33 sites are currently supported in Spokeo, allowing you to keep tabs on every site in one place.
Here's what's [...]

Unlike many retail giants of mostly brick-and-mortar, chain-linked proportions headquartered in the US, Amazon has shown a nice finish to 2007. The company, one of the largest of all online retail outlets, displayed a record number of sales this month – 5.4 million for the day of December 10th alone - effectively pushing the marketplace to a 13-year high, reported the London Times yesterday.
And there’s more. The mega-success, in tandem with the Warner Music Group, also revealed earlier this [...]

Yesterday, Amazon let known its establishment of a partnership between itself and the European startup SellABand. The association it will have with SellABand is simple: it will sell music released by artists developed through the independent service.
Why do we share this piece of information with you? Well, as many already know, Amazon several months ago unveiled its long-awaited music download service, appropriately named AmazonMP3. It was generally hailed by the blogosphere as welcome competition to Apple’s dominant iTunes [...]

Within the past two years, Web 2.0 has gone completely mainstream. Much as the World Wide Web was once the near-exclusive playground for college students and early adopters, everything from social networking to Ajax apps are familiar to just about everyone online.
With no signs of slowing down, however, each and every user-driven site, from Web 1.0 online shopping to nifty 2.0 apps like Geni, collects data on its users. Amazon has your credit card information, your purchase history, and your [...]

Today's launch of Hulu (and its partnership with Comcast) reminded me of Fancast, which is a hybrid entertainment portal from the cable service provider.
Back in August when I reviewed Fancast, I admired it and described it as “web 2.0 meets IMDB meets TV Guide” for its comprehensive database of movies and television shows that also provided viewers with TV listings in an effort to help visitors decide what to watch each day on television.
Just as expected, my visit to [...]

AdaptiveBlue, the smart browsing company, just announced that SmartLinks for blogs and websites now provide more relevant information from the best sites on the Web. SmartLinks are inserted next to links of supported sites like Yahoo! , CitySearch , Amazon and others. These automatic additions are intelligent contextual shortcuts to related sites and services that allow users to browse and discover more efficiently.
Smartlinks add value and discoverability for visitors to Web sites by intuitively analyzing each link and [...]

I’ve heard continuously over the past few months of growing friction between Apple, its iTunes marketplace, and the major record companies. Yes, the one’s that have been selling their content through iTunes. And at quite a fast pace, as of late. (What is the count of tracks sold now? 3 billion? 3.5? 4? Somewhere in that area, I presume.)
And quite honestly, I’ve never really understood why they haven’t being playing very well together. I mean, sure, they’ve got their [...]

There’s Amazon and its copycats for the online retail of physical goods (leaving aside the fact that Amazon is now working the intangible side of the digital retail world as well). Why not erect something similarly multifaceted (in the way that Amazon sells different types of goods and not only books) without involving so much as a cardboard box or a pint of diesel between seller and buyer?
That’s what the folks being Zipidee (I’m not fond of the [...]