Who knew Jennifer had such an advanced gadget sense? Or, and I think this the more likely situation, she’s secretly dating a blogger and he turned her on to...
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Jennifer Aniston brandishes a Kindle in US Weekly
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Where Does A Carbon Footprint Calculation Best Let The Customer Make A Postive Choice? While Online Purchasing
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We recently wrote about how difficult is for consumers to know which is better: saving gas by purchasing items online; or, reducing one's greenhouse gas "footprint" by...
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Twitter Down Again, This Time It's Their Fault
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This is getting a bit boring, but here we go again... Twitter is down. Unlike last night, tonight they are saying that today's service interruption is their fault. On the...
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Analyst Predicts $750 Million Worth of Kindle Sales by 2010 [Cash Dollaz]
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It looks like Amazon's foray into the world of gadget making is going to be a profitable one indeed: CitiGroup analyst Mark Mahaney claims that in less than two years,...
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Last Best Gifts: Retaliation and the market for human blood and organs
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I’m reading an interesting book, Eye For An Eye, by William Ian Miller [amazon]. (I don’t know anything about him. I just grabbed this off the shelf.)...
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Murder training for cheap at Amazon
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Filed under: Sales Remember all the controversy over Manhunt 2? Now it might be time to see what all the fuss was about, as Amazon has it marked down to $19.99 (for today...
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Packaging for retail
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Item 1: My Logitech cordless remote (which I like a lot) came in plastic, non-recyclable packaging that weighed twice as much as the remote itself.* The plastic was so...
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Amazon Funds Animoto Music Video Creator
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Amazon has taken a special interest in one of its web service customers: Animoto, the machine-driven music video creator that launched last August and now has over...
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Bill Scott: Everything Good You Needed to Know About Javascript*
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(*and even the bad parts)At Yahoo! I had the privilege of working directly with Doug Crockford and got to review a book he was writing at the time, Javascript The Good...
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Amazon Kindle a $750 Million iPod-Like Business By 2010 (AMZN) [Silicon Alley Insider]
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The Kindle could contribute 3% of Amazon's overall revenue in two years, argues Citi analyst Mark Mahaney, who has a born-again relationship with the device. Combining...
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summer fiction plans
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Lest you think I plan to spend my summer immersed entirely in professional reading, here’s my fiction reading list at the moment: Daemon, by Leinad Zeraus (read...
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Deal alert: Amazon offers Ratchet and Clank: Size matter for below US 20
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When Sony announced last month that High Impact Games' Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters was now part of their Greatest Hits series, we imagine it made quite a lot of PSP...
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Get the Lowdown on Cloud Computing at GigaOM’s Structure 08
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Next month GigaOM will hold Structure 08, a conference centered on the changing face of computing infrastructure. The event will discuss the wave of cloud computing...
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Cyberduck 3 adds WebDAV, Amazon S3, more
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Developer David V. Kocher today unveiled Cyberduck 3, a major update to his FTP client software, offering users a number of new protocols and several other enhanced...
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Amazon Funds Animoto Music Video Creator
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Amazon has taken a special interest in one of its web service customers: Animoto, the machine-driven music video creator that launched last August and now has over...
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My word! You can coach your vocabulary for $10
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Filed under: SalesHave you tried the demo for My Word Coach (available via the Wii's Nintendo Channel) and enjoyed it? If so, you might be looking to pick it up cheaply,...
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Smoking hot Sarah Lacy has a smoking hot book ranked #1 on Amazon
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See here. Sarah's book about Web 2.0 is ranked #1 among "company profile" books and #289 among all books on Amazon. Pretty incredible, though Katie informs me that the...
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I noticed the Gossip Girl DVD artwork and so I thought I’d go onto
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I noticed the Gossip Girl DVD artwork and so I thought I’d go onto Amazon.com and search for other some other shows, but I only had luck with shows on ABC (which...
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Video Interview With The Founders of Drop.io
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This morning I headed down to DUMBO (a neighborhood in Brooklyn) to check out the new Drop.io office. It's a great loft-style space that looks like the team can easily...
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Amazon May Sell $750 Million In Kindles by 2010 (That’s A Lot Of Kindles)
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The Kindle, Amazon’s ugly but useful ebook reader that launched in November 2007, may be a burgeoning hit, says Citigroup Analyst Mark Mahaney. Citi expects Amazon...