What Is Good To Read Now On Amazon

As Goodreads gets acquired by Amazon, its becoming clearer what people are reading. Amazon is the king of online booksellers and, by most accounts, the most feared player in publishing. Yet last week it shelled out a reported $150 million to buy up Goodreads, a social network for book nerds with a devoted but far [...]

Expatriates in Mexico! | Vallarta Escapes

George P

A friend of mine asked me to fill out a form about why I moved to Mexico. I filled out the form and returned it to m friend. He then sent me the following message: I decided not to wait on other submissions so I went ahead and published yours in the current book at, [...]

New Pinterest-Like Service To Curate Your Own Online Fashion Store: Wisemarkit

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards Robin Good: Wisemarkit is a new web service which allows anyone to create a personal online boutique and to stock it with his/her favorite items while earning a commission on those actually sold. These items need not be from you, though they can, but can be brought in from Amazon [...]

Mobile 3.0 arrives: How Qualcomm just showed us the future of the cell phone (and why iPhone sucks for this new contextual age)

The world just changed yesterday. You probably didn’t notice. But I guarantee strategists at Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google did. What happened? Qualcomm shipped a new contextual awareness platform for cell phones. Yesterday the Mobile 3.0 world arrived. First mobile was the standard old cell phone. You talked into it. The second mobile era [...]

How Companies Like Amazon Use Big Data To Make You Love Them

See on Scoop.it – Enterprise Social Media “Last month, I talked to Amazon customer service about my malfunctioning Kindle, and it was great.”   When’s the last time you hear the word great used in connection with a service call?   This article has great ideas about how to make your customer service not suck. [...]

Amazon Shouldn’t Try to Follow Apple into the Real World

Via Scoop.it – Enterprise Social Media “It is very likely that Amazon Fire may end up having the similar fate that RIM’s PlayBook had–a lot of expectations, lot of sell-ins but very weak sell-through.”   Could Amazon be contemplating a bricks and mortar retail strategy?    Via @careers_advisor Via www.forbes.com

Platform Platform Platform

Via Scoop.it – Enterprise Social Media “Chris B strikes again, and again, and again. Would also recommend Phil Simon’s new book Age of the Platform. Marty”   Amazon is a plaform. Is has 600 million indexed pages on Google. No other retailer is even close. Why? It’s a platform that enables User Generated Content, not [...]

Infographic Of The Day: The Mega Companies Behind 90% Of Media

“Funny” to see that the fear has now moved to an new medium and big Internet Companies such as Apple, Amazon, Google or Facebook…. Nobody seems to care as much as 10 years ago when I was hearing everywhere the “danger for pluralism of information” on big networks and newspapers… Via www.fastcodesign.com

Amazon Launches Christmas Attack on Local Shops

Apparently concerned that it’s not already doing enough to undermine local physical retailers across the country, Amazon.com announced it will pay customers up to $5 to go into a local store, scan an item, walk out, and buy the same item on Amazon. Please don’t do this cheap, sad thing. To get 5 percent off, [...]

The Great Tech War Of 2012

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards The four American companies that have come to define 21st-century information technology and entertainment are on the verge of war. Over the next two years, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google will increasingly collide in the markets for mobile phones and tablets, mobile apps, social networking, and more. This competition will be [...]

Congressman lobs bombshell at Amazon’s new Silk browser, claims shades of Orwell’s 1984 – GeekWire

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards There may be a new “big brother” in town, and it might just go by the name of Amazon.com. That’s the worry of Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) who today sent a letter to Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos expressing concern over the online retailer’s new Silk browser for the Kindle Fire. In [...]

Can a $35 Tablet Be as Effective a Learning Tool as an iPad?

Via Scoop.it – Contentmarketing When Amazon unveiled its new Android tablet, the Kindle Fire last month, analysts said that its price could well make it a viable competitor to the wildly successful iPad. Indeed, while the iPad has ignited great interest in tablet computing, particularly in schools, that interest has really just been interest in [...]