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0 Amazon to Acquire ‘AbeBooks’, the market place for rare digital books

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Amazon has recently acquired a Canada based company, AbeBooks. Being an online book marketplace, AbeBooks sells more than 110 million primarily...

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3 Amazon Goes Down

Users trying to get on Amazon's website this morning get a "service unavailable" message. What's up?

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0 Comment of the Day: All We Are Saying is Give Twine a Chance...

Today Marshall Kirkpatrick posted a less than favorable review of Twine, the semantic web knowledge management system that is currently in private...

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5 TeachStreet Gains $2.25M

Seattle-based TeachStreet, an online site focused on connecting teachers and instructors, has raised $2.25M in a Series A venture round led by Madrona...

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0 Clips from cult movie Rat Pfink a(nd) Boo Boo

Here are a couple of clips from a 1966 movie called The Adventures of Rat Pfink a(nd) Boo Boo, made by Ray Dennis Steckler, perhaps best known for his...

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0 Comment of the Day: iPhone No Match For Windows Mobile on Exchange Features

Alex Iskold's post from last night, Why Apple Will Dominate Next Gen Computing, has generated over 70 comments as of writing. Many of them challenged...

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0 3 Comment of the Day Winners

Due to the Ed traveling end of last week, we didn't announce any Comment of the Day winners. To catch up, we've selected 3 random commenters to win:...

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3 Why Apple Will Dominate Next Gen Computing

Last week Steve Jobs took the stage at the Apple Town hall meeting and announced
two major things for the iPhone: 1) support for Microsoft Exchange...

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0 Amazon Seeks Wine Buyer

The retailer may be getting into online wine sales as the position is for Amazon.com's specialty foods group.

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0 Apple's Walled Garden Will Hurt iPhone Innovation

The release of Apple iPhone SDK got a ton of attention on the blogosphere. Personally, I found the announcement to be a huge disappointment, because...

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0 Transparency Isn't A Substitute For Privacy

Slashdot points to a great Bruce Schneier article debunking the idea that "transparency" is better than privacy. People like David Brin argue that...

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0 Amazon Wine-Buyer Hints at Expansion

Amazon may be adding wine as another product it sells as the Internet retailer looks to recruit a wine buyer and enter a market complicated by...

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  • Date: Mar 7, 2008
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0 Comment of the Day: IE8 As Much About Google as Firefox

The comment of the day for yesterday was from our post Internet Explorer 8 Has Arrived. Sarah Perez noted that IE8 "showcases many new features and...

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0 You Succeed By Executing Well, Not By Gathering Patents

Patent attorney Joe Root sent us a link to an interesting essay on how companies became way too focused on intellectual property over executing sound...

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0 Amazon to Sell Wine: Good for Niche Networks?

Amazon is looking to get heavy into another market: selling wine. The large online retailer already has a pretty vast product selection in its...

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0 Cheers: Amazon To Enter Wine Business

Amazon is to starting selling wine from its site to US customers.
According to FT.com, Amazon is currently looking to recruit a senior wine buyer who...

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0 The Coming Death of Paper as an Information Storage Medium

The other day I was sitting in the bank watching a clerk copy information off a paper bank transfer to initiate a new wire transfer. Being a busy...

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0 Health 2.0 Conference Review

Editor's note: this week the Health 2.0 Conference was held in San Diego, CA. The following is a review of the event, by Bill Allman from...

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0 Comment of the Day: GoogleLookUp is "Wow"

Today's winning comment comes from our feature-by-feature comparison of Office Live Workspace and Google Docs. In the post Sarah Perez concluded that...

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0 Google Offers Secondary Search Boxes

Google has started offering search boxes within their search results. In the example above, a search box is offered for Amazon. The new service seems...

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