Another couple o’ awesome things happened while I wasn’t blogging - Google launched AppEngine and Amazon released the word that they had rolled out persistent storage to a select few and this would become a regular feature. These are both big noise in the world of cloud computing.
An interesting thing about these two services [...]

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It is no surprise to readers that I think that Amazon is one of the few tech companies in the world that consistently gets it. As long as I can remember I think they’ve been doing new and interesting things that were unsung by the media - their big problems with patents taking up most [...]

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I’ve been seeing these reports this morning, but didn’t really want to say much about it. It sucks, but it happens. Places get the downtime. But I came across this particularly silly reporting from TechCrunch… Let’s just see:
It’s a short piece - 2 [...]

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So Amazon’s dropping its DVD rental experiment after a few years of working it in Europe. I’ve read no shortage of pieces suggesting that this is Amazon losing the war v. Netflix. Which is probably true - I mean, it’s getting out of the DVD rental business before ever making it into the US.
I’ve [...]

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So there’s no shortage of the dumb American posts. I admit, despite being the greatest country ever, we’re also kinda dumb - wait, should that be a despite… or perhaps it’s because! Big whoop. But here’s a great post on dumb Brits! That’s right… 23% of British people thought that Winston Churchill was a myth, [...]

Categories: amazon · breakfast links

Amazon announced earnings and it turns out they kicked everyone’s butt. I suspected as much - that all the brick and mortar retailers showing their suffering was not because people weren’t shopping, but because people were shopping online. It’s easier and often cheaper to find what you want online - I pretty much did nearly [...]

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So the world is coming to grips with digital distribution - it’s easier for companies than distributing physical products, like cd’s, dvd’s or books and for many people it’s getting easier also. Broadband penetration in the States is low compared to other places, but there’s still a hell of a lot of people that have [...]

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You know, I just realized that Amazon Prime not only gets you free 2 day shipping it gets you $1.99 next day delivery. Could I love Amazon any more than I currently do? Possibly, but not likely. I’m just saying.

Categories: amazon · the love

Ok, I think I went like a whole week without posting anything about the Kindle. I break that silence with a stunning revelation - I now have scientific… SCIENTIFIC! evidence that the Kindle’s won the war and is just waiting for the world to catch up. I was perusing the most recent user reviews (yes… [...]

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DRM free music as well as free of cost… It seems to me that Apple is forcing everyone’s hand to try new and interesting tactics like dropping DRM and not because of no open letter but because of the iTunes Music Stores’ utter dominance of the market. Companies have tried and tried and tried to [...]

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