Content tagged amazon
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High-resolution images of that (previously-uncontacted?) Amazonia tribe shot who shot at a plane flying overhead with arrows. gulfstream/2448
Lone Star Statements: One star Amazon reviews of notable books. gulfstream/1919
Amazon's top free Indie Music downloads. This is actually worthwhile. I used to have a link to the top Rap & Hip-Hop downloads but I can't find … gulfstream/742
Gardner Botsford collects unusually-titled books. (Amazon reviewer Henry Raddick (interview) has an eye for the off-beat too.) gulfstream/824
Andrew Sullivan and Kurt Andersen talk about weblogs! Andersen once wrote a sublime piece on the irrational exuberance that drove “new economy” … gulfstream/910
Fun puff piece on the recommendation engines of TiVo, Amazon, etc. running amok. “After Mr. Meyer ordered a documentary about New York from … gulfstream/976
With great power comes great responsibility: on all political and social issues, Google’s policy is Don’t be evil, where evil is whatever Google … gulfstream/981
Chirac’s preuves indiscutables: undisputed proof or indisputed proof? Dump of translation-related stuff: A few months ago news … gulfstream/1032
The Authors Guild (what, no apostrophe?) doesn’t like Amazon’s full text search. “Whether your works should be in the program is hard … gulfstream/1325
Extracts from jwz’s diary leading up to the Netscape 0.9 release. Kurt Andersen on why Netscape matters: “Paradox No. 2: Christopher Columbus … gulfstream/1578
The Long Tail: in an Internet economy, you can make money by selling stuff most people don’t want (e.g. Bollywood films)—because you can find … gulfstream/1594
Amazon’s best-selling artists. This doesn’t match up terribly well with the RIAA’s list of top-selling artists (not the same time period, … gulfstream/1799
Spell-correction algorithms plus customer behaviour data-mining led Amazon to suggest “adoption” to customers who searched for “abortion” until … gulfstream/2027
Spike Lee’s “Inside Man” (decent movie) uses this track—“Chaiyya Chaiyya”, from the Bollywood movie “Bombay Dreams”—to incredible (and … gulfstream/2055
Long Tail doubters: Slate says Anderson is overreaching; the WSJ says his data is bogus. I’m still pretty skeptical of this (previously); whatever the … gulfstream/2127
Amazon on why they encourage the use of real names: “In general, we believe that a community in which people use their Real Name™ attributions will … gulfstream/2220
Bruce Schneier answers some questions on security. Not as paranoid as you might think: he uses the same password for low security sites, buys stuff from … gulfstream/2359
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Paradox No. 2: Christopher Columbus Was a Failure. His business model did not pan out: no western route to Asia, hardly any gold, abandonment by his investors, … quotes/236
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ELASTRA - The Infinite Database
hosted databases in amazon's cloud--if you don't want to set them up yourself
EveryDeal.com - Browse Amazon.com Sorted by Discount & Low Price
aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south.: Everything that's wrong with publishing
this is pretty bogus; saving for when i have enough examples (and enough time) to write an article about it
Amazon.com: Help > Enhancing Your Shopping Experience > Your Community > Your Real Name Attribution
amazon's explanation of why they encourage the use of your real name. why is ebay essentially anti realname, to the point that user names barely reflect them?
Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing
