Amazon Amazon: Widgetizing Recommendations We have written here extensively about emerging Amazon Web Services, as well as the latest consumer facing innovations at the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has consistently delivered exciting technologies, particularly in the last few years. The Web Services play, for example, first caused some puzzlement on Wall Street - but they've… Alex Iskold View comments
News CoRank Relaunches: Create Your Own Digg When CoRank launched in March it was a social news ranking site (like Digg) that filtered news based on your sources -- people whose opinion you value. Or, as CoRank founder Rogelio Bernal Andreo told us, it was "yet another boring bookmarking site." Today, the site relaunched with a new focus: allowing users to create their own, branded… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Vendor Relationship Management Last week, I attended the Internet Identity Workshop. Doc Searls, one of the organizers of the conference, ran multiple sessions on a concept he has been developing with others in his role as a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center, called Vendor Relation Management (or VRM.) The concept behind VRM is to "provide customers with tools for engaging… Sean Ammirati View comments
Analysis Facebook Grows Up - An Analysis of Today's News Today in San Francisco social networking site Facebook officially announced their much talked about open platform, for companies wanting to hook into the Facebook network. There's plenty of blog coverage of this event, so in this post I hope to synthesize it all and explore what it means... What has Facebook announced? Today Facebook launched… Social Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis What Google News and Techmeme Could Learn from Each Other Google News and Techmeme are two services that I use extensively every day. They are also two services whose technology is way over my head and are both eminently impressive. But Google News could, in my opinion, learn a lot from Techmeme, which has no rival when it comes to tech buzz aggregation. And Techmeme could learn a few things from… Josh Catone View comments