Watching people shop
I've been a long time Amazon customer, but a while ago I stumbled upon The Book Depository in the UK. Not only are their prices competitive with Amazon (especially when you consider the free shipping), but I was totally sucked in by their live "Watch people shop" widget - a very cool Google maps mashup.
..although it does look a bit strange when all the book buyers in Australia seems to be based in Alice Springs;-)
Soundtrack for this post: Someone To Watch Over Me
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The #joojoo is coming (with or without the true story)
Michael Arrington hasn't been shy about arguing his position on the CrunchPad/joojoo story, and until recently that's all we've really heard.
Reading the filing, I had the distinct feeling that everything wasn't so cut and dried as Mike claimed, and there's another story to tell.
Andrew Warner's Mixergy interview with Chandra (and subsequent discussion on TWiT) finally starts to bring some balance. I'm sure it all won't come out until the dust has settled around the court case, but I reckon there's a book in this story, a lá The Accidental Billionaires
Besides, now having seen it .. I want a joojoo! Short of an injunction, the joojoo is due to ship in the US in 8-10 weeks. It will be a real sad thing if the legal wrangle scuttles the joojoo's chances to have a serious shot in the market.
Business Tips via Mixergy, home of the ambitious upstart!
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FREE: The Future of Intense Irony
@audible_com please can you do more to convince your audio book publishers that you are an internet company, and by definition operating in a global marketplace.
Does Chris Anderson (@chr1sa) know that FREE is not FREE (contrary to his intent I believe), but it is completely UNAVAILABLE in the audio form for large parts of the world. What is this crap!
As @jason says "We LOVE audible", but the love get a little tougher when we get dissed and discriminated by @audible_com based on where we live.
Free offers to people following @audible_com? Great PR you would think...
.. but that turns into real bummer for a lot of us - actively poisonous PR. Couldn't you simply check to make sure that any freebie you want to offer is one that you can do globally?
Bah humbug!
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Trending Groceries #cider
You know when your local supermarkets and shops never stock one of your favourite things?
But you search the shelves on every visit anyway (just in case).
And when you do find it (even though you weren't really expecting to) you just have to buy it.
And you hope that somewhere back in the warehouse an alarm went off, and the clerks are leaping into action..
Smithers, we're spiking on sales of X. Hurry man, there's no time to waste: Reorder! Replenish! We must never go out of stock again.Rationally, your "consumer activism" is hardly a blip on the radar/grain of sand in the Sahara. But maybe it's more like tweeting to your grocery manager, and hoping you'll kick off a "trending groceries" list to get their attention.
Well, I thought I'd start a list of my own "trending groceries". Today: cider..
#1: #cider
So rare to find in Singapore. For the past few years I've been unconsciously checking on every visit to my local NTUC Fairprice.And then one fortuitous day I found a Pipsqueak 4-pack sitting on the shelf like a poor orphan. I had to adopt it of course, and have been back every week to save more of of it's brothers and sisters.
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