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Jennifer Aniston's Sweater: Part Deux

By Adam | Published: July 22, 2008
Filed under the “Too important not to blog but kind of meh news” department comes word that TiVo has hooked up their TV service to Amazon’s eCommerce services. In what appears to be a move towards t-commerce, real-time merchandising is now a reality. Let’s start with some history: Jennifer Aniston’s Sweater refers to a concept [...]
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NYTimes: Cloud Computing: So You Don’t Have to Stand Still

By Adam | Published: May 25, 2008
NY Times today has a great article explaining the concept of Cloud Computing. Have a look: Prototype – Cloud Computing – So You Don’t Have to Stand Still – NYTimes.com
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Netflix to Sell a Device for Instantly Watching Movies on TV Sets – New York Times

By Adam | Published: May 20, 2008
IPTV’s slow march takes another step, and then yawns… Given that the blog title tells the whole story, I’m not sure that this is really ‘news.’ The one bit of interest here? Long tail darling Netflix is fighting back against Apple & Amazon, to be sure. But… can they beat Blockbuster/Circuit City? We’re years away [...]
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In Play… New Media Consolidates (again)

By Adam | Published: May 6, 2008
Yahoo is still in play, according to Jerry Yang, Cringely has suggested that Adobe is in the cross hairs of Apple’s sights, Adobe has opened up Flash (and Air) as a service-based platform, Amazon & Apple both have rich-media pervasive devices, Microsoft is ‘meshing’ up Live, and Google is holding Verizon’s feet to the fire. [...]
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Amazon's Open Letter To Shareholders

By Adam | Published: April 29, 2008
Today, Amazon.com posted an open letter to shareholders extolling the virtues of the Kindle. More than that, he goes into a long conversation about where Amazon has come from, and where it’s going… “We started by setting ourselves the admittedly audacious goal of improving upon the physical book. We did not choose that goal lightly. [...]
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