Archive for 'Amazon'
Streamload Lands Major Deal With EMBARQ
The online storage pioneer Streamload–or Media Max Powered by Streamboat, as it prefers being called these days–has just landed a major distribution deal with EMBARQ Corp., the telecommunications giant that was spunoff from Sprint Nextel in June.
EMBARQ is basically private labeling MediaMax as the EMBARQ Media Safe and offering 25 gigabytes of secure online storage at no additional charge for […]
Posted: September 18th, 2006 under Web 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Computing, Amazon, Storage.
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Amazon Makes Preemptive Strike on Apple
Amazon.com made a preemptive strike on Apple today by unveiling Amazon Unbox, a new service for selling downloadable movies and TV shows online. Apple has been expected to announce plans to sell downloadable films on iTunes from Disney (whose biggest shareholder is a certain Steve Jobs) at its highly-hyped “It’s Showtime” event next week.
Amazon Unbox features thousands of […]
Posted: September 8th, 2006 under Companies, Web 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Amazon, Apple.
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Labor Day Thoughts: Amazon is the New Sears Catalog
In the high lonesome county in West Virginia where I grew up in the 50s and early 60s, the arrival by mail of the Sears-Roebuck catalog always made for an exciting day. The “wish book,” as everybody called it, arrived in big fat Fall and Spring editions as well as the always over-stimulating Christmas version. For those of us who lived 15-20 […]
Posted: September 4th, 2006 under Companies, Web 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Search, Amazon, Marketing.
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: WTF of the Year
Okay, I give up. What exactly is Amazon up to with its Mechanical Turk platform?
You don’t know about the Mechanical Turk? Where have you been? It’s been getting all kinds of press lately, including a big splash in Salon. The Mechanical Turk (let’s call it the Turk, for short) is a web-services platform that uses an […]
Posted: July 27th, 2006 under Web 2.0, Collaboration, Enterprise Web 2.0, Computing, Amazon, Web Services.
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EW2 Links (7/25/06)
Amazon Reports Steep Drop in Income
Amazon.com reported a 58% drop in second-quarter net income as a severed partnership with Toysrus.com and higher technology investment spending cut into profits.
Jeep Tries Viral Marketing With Karaoke Avatar Site
Jeep is trying to spread the word about its Compass vehicle by creating a web site (powered by Oddcast) that allows users to […]
Posted: July 25th, 2006 under Companies, Web 2.0, Social Media, Enterprise Web 2.0, Amazon, Viral Marketing.
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S3 Makes Amazon a Major BtoB Player
One of the solid business stories that seems to have gotten a bit lost in the flurry of tech media attention to the latest GooGoo and GaGa and Rumedumdum 2.0 has been good old boring Amazon’s sudden transformation into a major BtoB web services and storage player.
Launched in March, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) has turned […]
Posted: July 19th, 2006 under Companies, Computing, Amazon, Storage, Web Services.
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