Last week I made a flip remark about 10k forms in linking to Tim O’Reilly’s comments on Amazon.com competing with publishers. I wanted to link to his post again and urge you to skip down and read Tim’s responses to commenters to get a better idea of exactly what he’s talking about.
Tim points out that [...]
Tags: · Amazon.com, publishing
Michael Coté: Getting “Love” (and Attention) for Your Whizbang 2.0 Application - Fast, Frequent Features. Thoughtful musings on development models, community-related features, and social marketing. O’Reilly Radar: Publishers Beware: Amazon has you in their sights. I think you have to take what you see in 10K filings with a grain of salt. Financial Times: Google faces loss [...]
Tags: · Amazon.com, Apple, blogs, books, business, cloud computing, Google, links, politics, The Media, Web 2.0
Datawocky: The story behind Google’s crawler upgrade. How Google is crawling data accessible only through forms. Ars Technica: Red light camera monkey business may be a national trend. More on short yellow lights designed to result in red light camera tickets. Wide Awake Developers: Amazon Blows Away Objections. How Amazon is expanding the capabilities of its [...]
Tags: · Amazon.com, cloud computing, economics, Google, hosting, links, programming, search, security
It seems that the recent trend in the music industry has been to make tracks available without DRM but to snub Apple by refusing to allow them to sell the DRM-free tracks through the iTunes Music Store. I suspect that this is a sort of vigilante antitrust action by the record companies that they [...]
Tags: · Amazon.com, Apple, DRM, music