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POPSAmazon FPS System Lame? Whilst reading Hacker News at ycombinator dot com I came across the following piece from an experience Amazon FPS user. I have to say I'm not surprised, and mentioned briefly in a previous blog posting about how Amazon's success is still in limbo (at least in this category dominated by Auth.net and others) The requirement of an Amazon account is crazy, talk about a hurdle pre-checkout!
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POPSShopify Marketplace; All Your Products Are Belong to Us I've always like Shopify's business model, and their product (although I've never used it). Mashable has the info on their new marketplace which I think is genius. Genius mostly because it's a similar idea I've had for one of the projects I'm currently working on. It's not a shopping cart product but a similar model with a hosted application that I think is perfect for a marketplace add on.
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POPSMy Point Exactly; Amazon Gets No Love Whilst reading the posts of CenterNetworks I came across this little diddy by Matt Harwood talking about media companies investing in web applications/services. His point was that these types of buyouts are needed as there are only a few large Internet properties that "do" this sort of thing. My previous post on Amazon and how nobody mentions them when talking about "serious online' players is distinctly demonstrated in Mat''s article below as he lists ... well I'll let you read it. I'm not picking on Matt, and his point is very valid. I think we all applaud investment in online business's by every industry. In fact that's pretty much what I do for a living now ;)
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POPSAmazon Wants some Music Action with Amie Street Amazon is the sleeper of the second generation tech weapons race. Most conversations about buyouts and investment in the tech industry have Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! mentioned but you rarely hear much buzz around what Amazon is plotting. 'undisclosed amount' is how much they're putting into Amie ST. The news via VentureBeat is typical Amazon... "close to the vest'