Drop.io, one of the simplest online file sharing services out there, has a new product: drop.io manager. It’s a hosted white label solution for companies that need to share files online and slap their own branding on it. Significant features include private sharing of documents, file, images, audio or any other files, with the possibility [...]
Are ebooks going to go mainstream with Amazon becoming a de facto distribution monopoly? Or is a marketplace characterized by many different players and options looming still on the horizon? Should book publishers think carefully before jumping on the Kindle bandwagon about who should be in control of their distribution mechanism? Are there real opportunities [...]
Shelfari, the Amazon-backed community networked around books, has introduced editable author profiles in hopes that it can become a destination for not only biographical information but interactions between authors and their fans as well. Each author’s page will feature an open wiki in addition to a message board and a list of written books. Shelfari [...]
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 [...]
Amazon has quietly entered the video hosting and monetization game with Your Video Widget. Your Video Widget allows any registered Amazon Affiliate to upload a video and then select products that can be displayed as the video progresses (demo above). Video content can be anything from a product review through to a holiday video, but [...]
The just released Amazon Q4 2007 earnings report, besides showing that the company doubled profits this quarter, had a couple very interesting notes related to their growing suite of web services. The first is that bandwidth usage from their web services exceeds that of their web sites: Adoption of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and [...]
Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud. These services are designed to make [...]
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