Spent an interesting couple of hours with an online bookseller yesterday researching an upcoming column about selling over the Internet. Ian Bruce works out of a disused British Telecom phone exchange, a long narrow building with only one window nestled between the sandstone houses favoured by Britain’s new ruralized yuppies in the quaint English countryside. … Read more
The folks at Bloglines, a very popular web-based RSS reader and publisher, will today launch an international version with support for six languages, which they hope “may mark a shift in the expansion of blog/RSS reach and usage, heading down the global internet service road paved by eBay and Amazon, etc.” The new internationalized web … Read more
I bought a second-hand book off Amazon the other day and was boasting about it to a friend. He wasn’t impressed. “We never buy anything new anymore,” he said. Clothes? Thrift shops. Toys? Yard sales. Books, CDs and whatnot? Amazon or eBay. Only food seemed to be something he bought new, and even then I … Read more
If you want to, I mean if you really want to, you can add some weird sound effects to your incoming email. Chapura, better known for its KeySuite Outlook synchronization software, today launched Email Sound FX, “an Outlook add-in for customizable sound notification of Outlook email on a Windows-compatible PC”. Users can then assign sender-specific … Read more
What is a plog? Seems the term is currently being claimed by at least five groups: Project blogs, suggested by MIT’s Michael Schrage in this May article on CIO Amazon’s personalized blog idea, which ClickZ’ Pamela Parker quotes Amazon as saying is a beta-testing “diary of events that will enhance your shopping experience, helping you … Read more