Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’
Stuff I Like
April 22nd, 2007 • Reviews + Recommendations
Tags: Amazon, shopping
People often ask me about my opinions on random products that I’ve either used or bought. But a lot of the products that I absolutely love, people would never know to ask about. So I’ve put together a little Amazon store made up of products that I love. Feel free to peruse the store and see if there is anything that might help you out. If you have questions on any of the products in the store, feel free to leave me a comment. I’ll try to post reviews on some of these products in the near future.
Why the USBCell Isn’t That Great
September 22nd, 2006 • Business, Rants, Reviews + Recommendations, The Press
Tags: Amazon, Energizer, Engadget, gadgets, Georgia-Institute-of-Technology, Gizmodo, USBCell
This is an interesting story about how hype happens on the Internet yet fails to go beneath the surface of the story. So many people are talking about the USBCell product which is currently only available in the UK. Heck, the folks at Buzz Out Loud even talked about it during one of their podcasts (I’ve forgotten which one now).
The product sounds great. A NiMH rechargeable AA battery with an integrated USB port. Whenever you need to recharge the battery, you flip open the top and connect it to a powered USB port which will then recharge the battery. Great! We all have USB ports a plenty and when you travel, you can recharge batteries from your computer without having to worry about bringing a separate recharging station.
Online Price Comparisons in the Offline World
August 31st, 2006 • Business, Reviews + Recommendations, Technology
Tags: Amazon, Frucall, price-comparison, Scanbuy-Shopper, shopping
I’m a huge fan of online shopping. The convenience of being able to instant price comparisons is a huge benefit. I usually buy stuff on Amazon for a few reasons. First, I have an Amazon Visa card which gives me 3% back on everything I buy on Amazon. Second, I use A9.com (they’re an Amazon property) as my search engine and as a result I get 1.57% (pi [3.14] divided by 2 – they’re sharing the advertising pie!) off of everything I buy on Amazon (even stuff not sold by Amazon). Third, Amazon recently extended me an offer to try Amazon Prime free for three months. The service normally costs $79 a year and upgrades all of your shipments to second day delivery for free with no minimum purchase orders. I really like this benefit, although I’m not sure that I would pay for it. I’m also not sure why Amazon extended this courtesy to me but I’ve definitely taken advantage of it.
Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Part 2
August 24th, 2006 • Entrepreneurship + Startups, Technology
Tags: Amazon, EC2, Elastic-Compute-Cloud, S3, simple-storage-service
Okay, so the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service isn’t as great as I thought. It is still quite interesting for bursty computing tasks though. It appears that you have to manually request an instance of your application to run. This instance (the examples they talk about are instances of a full Linux OS) can then be logged into to do work (I think through an SSH session).
Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
August 24th, 2006 • Entrepreneurship + Startups, Technology
Tags: Amazon, EC2, Elastic-Compute-Cloud, S3, simple-storage-service
Wow! Amazon released a beta service allowing for shared computing time this morning. The service, dubbed the Elastic Compute Cloud, works in conjunction with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). I’ve signed up for an account and I’ll provide more details once I get a chance. At first blush though, this is great for people wanting to build computing intensive startups without having to spend money for infrastructure on the front end.
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