derek abdinor » Amazon http://derek.abdinor.co.za online disclosure Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:45:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Amazon’s social network http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2008/01/07/amazons-social-network/ http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2008/01/07/amazons-social-network/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:34:42 +0000 derek http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2008/01/07/amazons-social-network/ Following on the heels (or should that be the leap that wasn’t pre-looked) of Facebook’s consumer advertising platform Beacon, Amazon has allowed its users to build up records of what they’ve bought and share it with people (friends) on Amazon. Obviously the big prize here is not accumulating friends like other social networks, but actual consumer items. Ca-swipe!

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Amazon is one of the companies that deploys simple business ideas and are probably a step behind the early adopters. Their user reviews and comparison purchases model was peer-production and user generated content (UGC) before they became buzzwords. Now this. Their efforts in cloud computing also brand them as a player in the post W2 world.

]]> http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2008/01/07/amazons-social-network/feed/ 0 Epic 2014: Googlezon, the merger of Google and Amazon http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2007/06/11/epic-2014-googlezon-the-merger-of-google-and-amazon/ http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2007/06/11/epic-2014-googlezon-the-merger-of-google-and-amazon/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:21:06 +0000 derek http://derek.abdinor.co.za/wordpress/?p=14 Brilliant video of the foreseen merger of Google and Amazon by 2014, and the way that “news” will be created. I actually think we are almost there, after all, if you can dream it you can build it. And if you build it, they will come.

All my mates in online media, heed,

http://idorosen.com/mirrors/robinsloan.com/epic/

 

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