I’ve always been an Amazon/Bezos fan and this article doesn’t change it.
My wife still claims to still like me. I don’t question her aggressively on that.
The vision for Kindle is every book, every imprint, in any language, all available in 60 seconds.
Read the whole thing or watch the video.
Regular readers have seen links to great Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic strips. He has an RSS feed, you should use it.
When the Wall Street Journal notices the totally facetious conference founded by the author, Zach Weinersmith, you know it’s hit the big time…
If you are interested, check out You Tube for videos from the conference.
I just discovered that Google+ will not only automatically backup your phone photos, but it will try to enhance them and put them together into Stories. In a burst of modesty, Google calls this “Auto-Awesome”.
It is pretty interesting. Everything below was 100% produced automatically from my phone photos.
Our recent trip to Italy for a wedding produced this story:
It took a Cape Cod sunset and produced this:
This was from an apple picking trip:
And it created this GIF automatically:
With a subtitle of “Galileo was right”
317 million miles away. Seriously, this is an insanely cool accomplishment. We landed a robot on a comet the size of Central Park (a big park, a very small space object)
Enjoy the moment. Science is cool.
As a tech guy, this is obviously a big deal to me. So with apologies, another posting on the topic, this time from Fred Wilson.
Tech folks totally know who Fred Wilson is. He is one of, if not the most prominent VC guys in the industry. Some of the obscure firms he did early investments in include Twitter, Foursquare, Tumbler, Zynga and Kickstarter.
He obviously knows something about innovation. He’s been betting his personal fortune on it for quite a while.
And when you think about the net neutrality debate, ask yourself what innovation Comcast, Time Warner or Verizon has developed.
A lot of people are saying this debate is about innovation. It is. Pick your side.
And read his blog. As quoted by the most prominent Apple blogger, Daring Fireball:
This is about something more simple and more important. It is about making sure that the Internet remains open and free for innovation. It is about recognizing that the last mile of the wired and wireless internet is a natural monopoly/duopoly where scale creates massive advantages, just like the electrical grid and the water system. It is about making sure that the massive companies that operate these last mile monopolies don’t use their market power to extract rents from the entrepreneurs, developers, and companies that must go through those networks to reach their customers.
Remember Felix Baumgartner’s record free fall from virtually outer space? Promoted by Red Bull, live streamed, tons of publicity?
A Google exec, quietly and with his own money, just broke the record.
Hopefully there will be videos…
Look at the chart below. At a glance, what would you conclude? Amazon is kicking butt? Damn, I wish I bought their stock 10 years ago?
Or would your headline be, “Amazon’s Growth is Waning”?
If you didn’t pick the latter, you don’t understand how to drive online clicks to produce ad revenue.
Though you might be smart…
Here’s an amusing and obviously one side article. It starts with:
Here’s a little real talk about the book publishing industry — it adds almost no value, it is going to be wiped off the face of the earth soon, and writers and readers will be better off for it.
And ends with:
Amazon’s view is that since “printing” an extra copy of an e-book is really cheap, e-books should be really cheap. Publishers’ view is that since “printing” an extra copy of an e-book is really cheap, e-books should offer enormous profit margins to book publishers. If you care about reading or ideas or literature, the choice between these visions is not a difficult one
In between, it’s somewhat critical of publishers…
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