 Amazon’s Latest Product Launch is a Couple of Facebook Apps - 13-3-2008 0:30:45
Amazon has now officially joined the Facebook craze. It has launched two of its own Facebook applications: Amazon Giver and Amazon Grapevine.
Amazon Giver shows your Amazon wishlist on your Facebook page. Of course, there are more than a dozen apps on Facebook that already let you do that, but only Amazon [...] more »
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Amazon: screw the simplicity, stick to what sells - 20-2-2007 5:21:46
I was reading a presentation by Ronny Kohavi and Matt Round from Amazon.com on Amazon using analytics for deciding on what the site looks like, what the top-level navigation looks like, and what the front page of Amazon.com looks like. Hat tip to Greg Linden for linking to it.
Amazon has been widely known for throwing [...] more »
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Amazon Launches SMS Buying Service - 2-4-2008 10:21:03
Amazon has launched Amazon TextBuyIt, a service that allows Amazon customers to purchase items via mobile phone text message.
To use the service, customers text the name of a product, its description, or its UPC or ISBN number to Amazon (262966). If Amazon stocks the item, the user will get the first two results sent to [...] more »
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Amazon bombing - Getting your book to No. 1 on Amazon sales rank - 29-10-2006 14:47:00
Worldchanging, the really good enviro-blog has a new book out. They want people to Amazon bomb the book so that it becomes the best selling book that day on Amazon. As a result of a No. 1 listing on Amazon a lot more doors and shelves of bookstores will open for them. Funny how [...] more »
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Amazon aStore - 30-8-2006 15:19:47
Amazon is now offering a method to Amazon Associates allowing one to build a standalone store that one can embed or link to rather than just embedding individual Amazon items on a Web page. This concept is called Amazon aStore. It’s still in beta, but here’s the Amazon’s aStore beta demo.
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Amazon Shorts Restricted To USA - 23-5-2007 1:31:09
Loyal hackoff.com reader Allan tried to download “The Interpreter’s Tale” from Amazon and promptly ran into and commented on a restriction I didn’t know about: you have to have a US shipping address to purchase Amazon Shorts even though all fulfillment is online! I asked my contact at Amazon about this and it’s true. The reason is that Amazon thinks... more »
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Find Amazon Prime eligible items - 7-10-2006 1:19:43
We've blogged about Amazon Prime here at the Lifehacker mansion, but here's another twist on an already useful service: a search engine for Amazon Prime eligible items.
Just enter in what you're looking for and the Amazon Prime search engine will tell you if it's ready for Amazon Prime time. A great way to get even more out of your shipping discount. — Wendy Boswell
Search Amazon.com for Amazon Prime Eligible Items [ via Amazon Web Services Blog]
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Amazon Hunter - 1-11-2007 23:34:17
I just came across an amazing tool called Amazon Hunter.
If you have read Day Job Killer there is a section that covers direct linking campaigns using Google Adwords and Amazon.com.
Amazon Hunter allows you to quickly search through thousands of Amazon products to find a profitable niche. It also allows you to choose the min and [...] more »
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An unusual email from Amazon - 11-7-2007 21:31:56
I got an unusual email from Amazon today:
I’m sure that Domino is a fine magazine, but I told Amazon not to send me anything promotional. So I checked my communication preferences on Amazon. Yup, they’re not supposed to send me any emails like this:
What’s up, Amazon? Ian, tell Amazon folks that they burnt a teeny [...] more »
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Amazon.com launches independent Endless.com - 5-1-2007 15:30:53
In a quirky move, Amazon.com has launched their own independent shoe and handbag niche website, Endless.com. Shoes and handbags will still be available on Amazon.
Endless really hides the fact that Amazon owns them — you have to dig into their ‘About Us‘ page, and even then you won’t see Amazon.com’s logo. Amazon.com offers an API [...] more »
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) - 24-8-2006 19:39:38
Amazon web services has launched Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
“Amazon EC2 presents a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to requisition machines for use, load them with your custom application environment, manage your [...]
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Amazon Gets Widget With It - 17-9-2007 14:18:29
I think I’ve made it fairly clear by now that Amazon.com’s search engine makes my skull hurt, but I’m really digging almost everything else they’re doing. Today Amazon launched new “Amazon Widgets,” an interface for building — yes! Widgets that have to do with Amazon! You can start building and implementing widgets at http://widgets.amazon.com/ . [...] more »
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Unboxing Amazon - 8-9-2006 18:37:20
I have to hand it Amazon, they are becoming one of my favorite companies up there with Apple and Google. This new service from Amazon, Amazon Unbox, comes out a mere few days before Apple’s “It’s Showtime” event, thus trumping them on a video download service.
Let me first say that it is PC only…boo Amazon.
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New Amazon Widgets Released - 21-9-2007 12:19:05
The Amazon associates program just launched Amazon Widgets, small, visually dynamic, easily configurable tools that allow you to feature products from Amazon on your website or blog. You can populate... more »
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New Amazon Widgets Released - 21-9-2007 12:19:05
The Amazon associates program just launched Amazon Widgets, small, visually dynamic, easily configurable tools that allow you to feature products from Amazon on your website or blog. You can populate... more »
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Amazon Widgets for Amazon Associates - 23-9-2007 18:42:55
Amazon.com has released Amazon Widgets for its Amazon Associates.
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Amazon Taking DRM-Free MP3s International in 2008 - 27-1-2008 19:27:08
Amazon announced today that they would be rolling out their Amazon MP3 store internationally in 2008.
“We have received thousands of e-mails from Amazon customers around the world asking us when we will make Amazon MP3 available outs…
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Why I Love Amazon - 13-1-2008 4:09:10
I love amazon.com. I know I am a pawn in their evil consumerist schemes, but I find myself using amazon.com more and more. Here are some of the things I like about amazon.com.
Great prices on new books and if you spend more than $25 the shipping is free.
Excellent inventory and a [...] more »
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Ja, Amazon, Ja!: This Volvo Amazon Will Shut Your Supra Ass Down, Boyee! - 27-6-2007 20:30:12
There's just something extra-sweet about watching a mid-12-second Volvo Amazon do its thing, particularly when it's a stock-looking Amazon on skinny tires beating a fast Toyota with a huge wing.... more »
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Short book reviews - 14-5-2008 16:40:09
Readers may be interested to note that short-book reviews can be inserted into amazon urls. I have taken off the catalogue numbers for the purposes of display within the column of this blog, but clicking through to amazon will show the effect in your address bar.
For example:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ben_Goldacre_is_everywhere_like_God
http://www.amazon.co.uk/how-to-exploit-the-sick-for-profit
http://www.amazon.co.uk/most_alternative_medicine_is_a_pile_of_crap
http://www.amazon.co.uk/an-attempt-to-kill-children-with-pseudoscience
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boris_Johnson_blunders_again
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