For the most part, I’ve been impressed with Amazon’s e-commerce capabilities: reviews, book recommendations and very often, their algorithmic book bundling system. However, I have now witnessed one that has gone terribly wrong. My wife bought the book on tape, The Lady and The Panda.
In this particular case, Amazon’s algorithm went terribly ary:
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Was reading the essay “You Don’t Understand Our Audience,” by John Hockenberry in the latest edition of the MIT Technology Review. Very interesting piece about the shift in the views of the audience from his time at NBC and discusses the nature of realizing that the shift is occurring. A piece of the [...]
Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 are getting lots of coverage as of late. The former allows you to store/retrieve data out of the Amazon cloud “paying by the drink” while the latter allows you to computer in the Amazon “cloud”.
At Web 2.0 Expo, Jeff Bezos made an interesting statement about a recent and early-stage [...]
