Posts Tagged with ‘amazon’

On a very slow day I finally found a very interesting story about the lawsuit against Statsaholic by Alexa. Alexa is suing Ron Hornbaker the developer of Statsaholic over the domain name Alexaholic, which was Hornbaker's original domain for the feature filled ranking site.
The depth of the story was reported by TechCrunch back in March, but essentially Statsaholic began to gain popularity because of their features, but changed their name and stopped using the conflicting Alexaholic domain to appease Amazon. Amazon got [...]

ThinkFree is formally launching Viewer API's at the Web 2.0 Expo which will allow Web Services to integrate and mashup viewer and editor applications on their Web pages. Visitors will be able to open MS Office files from their browser without the need for MS Office or other plugins.
The biggest news for yesterday was ThinkFree's partnerships with Jive Software, NHN Naver, Coilm Livestart and Amazon live at the Expo.
These partnerships represent a significant acceptance of the company's offerings and the NHN in [...]

A month ago, I took a look at PowerReviews, which at the time was still in private beta. Since then, they've made a lot of changes to the site, changed the name to Buzzillions , and done a soft beta launch, with the big push coming next Tuesday.
In an email to private beta users, Jim Morris, VP of Customer Experience explained many of the changes:

"too busy, too many links" - We streamlined the home page, reorganized the categories, [...]

A few weeks ago, I started noticing a trend in some of the latest community site releases from some heavy hitters. iVillage was rolling out a new community feature. Even the usually hyper-paranoid-about-image Disney was launching a user-created content site. There definitely seems to be a trend with companies to attracting women, particularly mothers, to Web 2.0 sites.
However, as I started looking at these sites, and others I would have assumed were also being helmed by women, I noticed [...]

High overhead and falling revenues are causing many traditional businesses to refocus their targeted sales platforms. Another example, the Borders Group is discontinuing its arrangement with Amazon.com for the sale of their books. Borders plans to close half of its Waldenbooks stores and sell off most of its 73 overseas stores.
Borders reportedly lost $73.6 last year compared to a profit of $119.1 million the year before. Borders had developed a strategy of allowing Amazon to sell their wares while maintaining [...]

Amazon and TiVo running to grab some of the Internet video download market.
Today Amazon.com announced the launch of a new service that allows users to watch video purchased online via their TiVo set-top boxes. Announced last month as "Amazon Unbox in Tivo", this service provides the Unbox downloads to 1.5 million TiVo subscribers. Just the other day I was wondering what all the TiVo owners were going to do with worthless TiVo's and now we have the answer!
TiVo [...]

Rumors are floating around that Amazon may have invested approximately $1 million in Web 2.0 site Shelfari , scooping the site from other the noses of venture capital firms who were interested. If the rumors are true, this is Amazon 's first real dip of it's monstrous toes into the social shopping area.
The Seattle-based company is competing in an arena already populated by LibraryThing, and gives a nod to the competition by allowing you to input your book lists to [...]

There are many ways to shop online. Thousands of specialty stores hawk all types of goods and services. There we see Amazon as king. Then there are smaller operations, like TigerDirect, Newegg, Musicians Friend. The long tail is at the bottom. It’s where mom-and-pop shops are vying for the attention that either don’t want to look for stuff sold by the big retailers or get stuff they can’t find any place else. They are the storefronts where you’re most [...]

We believe in the web. We believe in blogs and how they can influence their audience.
This credo is the first thing you see on the home page of the new Web 2.0 project named booBox that is launched today. Based on this belief creators of booBox have developed a tool intended for bloggers to monetize their blogs further - "monetize your influence". But it is not about some third-party advertising: a blogger should be able to earn by expressing [...]