If you haven't heard, Amazon.com went down today and stayed down for over an hour. It was something that nobody expected so it caused quite a stir online.

What does a website outage cost a retail giant when it happens? Did Barnes and Noble see an increase in sales and benefit from Amazon's troubles?

Will the publicity

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I had a few surprising things happen when I created an Amazon Ebay mashup site for Christmas. I posted earlier about Mark’s script to create these sites.

Holiday sites can often do quite well, so I had the idea to make one of these sites for Christmas.

The next day, it only got 3 visitors, but imagine my surprise when, the day after th

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How would you like to be a published author on Amazon.com? I did it!

Amazon has come out with a new book reader electronic device, called the Kindle. I got my book published in the Kindle program. It took less than 24 hours for it to be live.

The help they give you is confusing, to say the least. So I’m going to give you some tips on ho

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As I recently joined Amazon as an associate I was looking for ways to include their products in blogs and websites. As a newcomer I found their associate pages a little confusing! I wanted an easy way to put an RSS feed of their products on a page of my website and while I was using rssfeedreader I noticed they had launched a n

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Ever wondered what Google's, Yahoo's or Skype's offices look like? Taking a peek behind the world's most successful Internet companies... and they all seem to have one thing in common: their office facilities are anything BUT boring!
Could the workspace environment have anything to do with the huge success some of those companies experi

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Previously it was reported, much to the chagrin of Battlestar Galactica fans everywhere, that the DVDs for season 3 wouldn't be released until March 25th, which was only a week or so before season 4 starts.

Well for some reason, they've upped the release date. Now Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 will be released on Ma

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Thats right! With little work you can be rollin in the dough at amazon dot com. “Tell me what I have to do, mcangeli!” you say? Well, its simple. Make comments on my posts. Respond to something I’ve or someone on my site has said. The contributor wi

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It took me a long time to leap off the end of the high definition DVD player diving board, but I finally did it. Up until now, I was wary of making a purchase since it’s so completely up in the air as far as who will win the race: BluRay or HD-DVD.

I ended up choosing HD_DVD for four reasons:

1. I had run out of patience in waiting t

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This is one of the things that I have always had trouble with, getting my tracks out to the public and at the same time starting to receive some sort of income from any sales I make. I managed just that recently and thought that my story and experience so far should be shared with other musicians who want to do the same without the need for a

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Amazon Customers Vote is back for 2007. Each round of Customers Vote lets you and your site visitors vote for the deal you’d most like to have. Voting begins on Thursday, November 15th and continues through Monday, November 26th. There will be six rounds of voting this year with three products in each round. Beginning Thursday, November 22nd,

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Squidoo.com also uses modules to promote lens pages. Modules are nothing more than information boxes with content in them you add to your lens page. Typically you include modules after your introduction.

There are many customized modules you can add, including those offered by Amazon and eBay, promoting products listed on t

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The World's Most Innovative Companies

Fastcompany.com's list of The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies. It is interesting that Nike is the only one listed that was also on the list last year. I am surprised LG wasn’t higher.

Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, GE, google, Ideo, Innovative Companies, Nike, Nintendo, Nok

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I worked at a retail store for 2-3 years while going to college, doing sales. Few important things I learned about retail business. What drives these retail stores like Walmart, Bestbuy, Staples and such is that 4th quarter sales will make or break them and not just on company stock prices. Just recent news: most retail stores released weak s

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People are actually buying Ubuntu CD's on Amazon! That isn't the funny part though, one user that had a "bad" experience with Ubuntu decided to warn others by writing a review.

I think it is ridiculous that people are actually able to sell Ubuntu on Amazon, let alone that people are actually dumb enough to buy it! When I

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Here's a quick list of RSS feeds offered by Amazon.com. For each shopping category, e.g., books, cds, dvds, Amazon appears to offer 5 different feeds which emphasize different aspects of the shopping category. For example, the RSS feed for "Bestsellers" is not the same as the feed for "Most Gifted." Bestsellers doesn't ap

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