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I am very impressed by Amazon’s Kindles. — [VIDEO]

You should watch: Analysis.

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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

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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.

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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?

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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

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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.

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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

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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 -

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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

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Apple now sells more music than Amazon. + Yootopia & Yootles

(Via Kottke.) That would have made a great (real-money or play-money) prediction market. How come we don’t have more technology business prediction markets??? CDA, please. And I want actual, real-world outcomes —not Yahoo! search outcomes, of which I don’t give … Continue reading

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