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- Interview with Adam Lashinsky — [VIDEO]
- Why some people are more innovative — [VIDEO]
- Forbes editor deciphers Steve Jobs’s Apple. — [VIDEO]
- Jason Ruspini rebuts Eric Zitzewitz on the regulation of political prediction markets. — [COMMENT]
- Eric Zitzewitz petitions the CFTC in favor of real-money prediction markets about politics. — [TEXT]
- Global warming is a big scam. — [LINK]
- A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors — [VIDEO]
- The Tragedy of the Commons — [VIDEO]
- Guy Kawasaki on Steve Jobs — [VIDEO]
- Inside Apple — [VIDEO]
- Mitt Romney’s taxes — [LINKS]
- A critique of Apple’s multimedia iBooks. — [LINK]
- Does Apple lack “generosity”? — [LINKS]
- Apple Education Push — [LINKS]
- Water Crystals — [DOCUMENT]
- Apple’s e-book software will allow publishers to make textbooks more interactive. — [LINKS + VIDEO]
- Alain Soral is France’s most dangerous intellectual… (dangerous for the French plutocrats, that is). — [VIDEO]
- Computers thru time — [CHART]
- NASA has finally understood the theorical basis of LENR (low-energy nuclear reactions). — [VIDEO]
Tag Archives: Amazon
I am very impressed by Amazon’s Kindles. — [VIDEO]
You should watch: Analysis.
Posted in Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Amazon, audio, books, e-books, Information Technology, Jeff Bezos, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Media, media consumption, medias, readers, reading, tablet computers, tablets, texts, video, videos
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The Belo Monte dam project in the Amazon rainforest has been OK’ed. — [VIDEO]
NYT. BBC. Wikipedia: The Belo Monte Dam (formerly known as Kararaô) is a proposed hydroelectric dam complex on the Xingu River in the state of Pará, Brazil. The planned installed capacity of the dam complex would be 11,233 megawatts (MW), … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Ethics, Inventions & Innovations, News
Tagged Amazon, Amazon rainforest, Belo Monte Dam, Brazil, dam, dams, electricity, electricity plant, electricity plants, electricity production, energy, energy plants, energy production, enery plant, Latin America, power, power plant, power plants, power production, South America, Xingu River
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Apple vs. Amazon – [BUSINESS MODELS]
- Amazon sells books. It sells the Kindle as a means of selling more books. – Apple sells devices. It sells music/books/movies/apps as a means of selling more devices. Excellent.
US Patent Office patents Amazon’s one-click shopping cart. — Will it impact our Web-based prediction exchanges?
US Patent Office patents Amazon’s one-click shopping cart. Mike Masnick disproves. Any impact for the prediction market / betting market industry?
HarperCollins is preventing bloggers to criticize Super Freakonomics by cutting off free access to excerpts of the book via Amazon.com.
Brad DeLong has the damning story. I like Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner very much, and I wish the polemique will end well for them. Previously: Super Freakonomics — Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner — The Follow-Up On Freakonomics Super … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Ethics
Tagged Amazon, Amazon.com, Economics, Freakonomics, HarperCollins, Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt, Super Freakonomics, SuperFreakonomics
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How I make at least $1,000 a month working on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
“How I make at least $1,000 a month working on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.” Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Via the 2 NYC research scientists.
Some thougths about Amazon.com
- They are testing Twitter. I would look at the Twitter presences of Tim O’Reilly, StarBucks and NakedPizza for ideas on how to use Twitter. In my view, the StarBucks idea to have one Twitter journalist/blogger inside StarBucks reporting from … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Economic Models, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, The Internet
Tagged Amazon, Amazon.com, Business & Economic Models, content, inbound links, Internet Marketing, Internet Strategy, NakedPizza, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Starbucks, Tim O'Reilly, Twitter
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Tim Harford is a paperback writer.
US edition (paperback): Tim Harford, The Logic Of Life – UK edition (paperback): Tim Harford, The Logic Of Life -
Posted in Economics, Resources - References
Tagged Amazon, books, Economics, economists, paperback, The Logic Of Life, Tim Harford
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Could a statistical reputation system built on top of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk be of any help to the prediction market firms?
- I leave the mic to David Pennock so that he’ll explain to you what this is all about. (Be sure to check Panos Ipeirotis‘ comment on Lukas Biewald‘ blog post.) [UPDATE: Panos has just made it into Read & … Continue reading