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• Still awesome, still works: Request library books from Amazon pages

  Published: July 10, 2007, 9:44 am

  Tags: Life Hacks, Tips, Productivity, Amazon, Bookmarklets, Jon Udell, Libraries, San Francisco

  library book based on the Amazon page you're currently viewing. It's clearly a flawless lifehack. You just need to know your library's URL and which system your own city uses (which Jon makes simple by providing preview links to see which style your system seems to follow). San Francisco folks, use http://sflib1.sfpl.org/ and leave

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• In Brief: Free 2GB memory cards when you pick up ...

  Published: July 27, 2007, 5:41 pm

  Tags: Amazon, Canon, Dealzmodo, Digital Cameras, Fuji, Fujifilm, Kodak, Memory Cards, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung

  Free 2GB memory cards when you pick up any of these cameras. [Amazon]

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• Shelter from the storm: AAPL; AMZN & BIDU

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Aapl, Amazon, Amazon Com, Amzn, Apple, Baidu, Bidu, Inthenews, Joseph Hargett, Josephhargett, Relative Strength Stocks, Schaeffer S Investment Research, Steven Halpern, Tech Stocks, Thestockadvisors Com

  under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), iPhoneIn the declining market, the tech sector has stood out for its relative performance, according to Jospeh Hargett, an analyst with Schaeffer's Investment Research. He explains, "Within the tech sector, there are several pockets of opportunity that could provide some nice cover for your

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• Technophilia: Get productive with the best Facebook Apps

  Published: July 30, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Amazon, Calendar, Del Icio Us, Digg, Document Sharing, Documents, Facebook, Feature, Feeds, File Sharing, File Storage, Files, Getting Things Done, Getting To Done, Google, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Gtd, Image Editing, Last Fm, Lists, Media, Media Player, Netflix, Photos

  Web search Search Google, Amazon, and Wikipedia from within Facebook with Search. Of course, there are many more Facebook apps that are productive, unlike this one, or this one, or maybe even this one; so tell us your favorite Facebook applications in the comments. Wendy Boswell, Lifehacker's Weekend Editor, has become a wee bit addicted

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• Six Data Visualizations That Rock!

  Published: June 19, 2007, 3:42 am

  Tags: Analytics, Marketing Tips, Web Analytics, Web Metrics, Advanced Analytics, Web Insights, Amazon Com, Clicktracks, Feedburner, Google Analytics, Heat Map Tables, Lifetime Rank, Tag Clouds, Titlez, Web Analytics Data Visualization

  obsess about my book’s amazon ranking. But Amazon’s ranking changes too fast (here today, gone tomorrow!). Willem turned me on to TitleZ, a wonderful site that allows me to track history. Now I can track the trend over time and measure real success. (Click on the image for a higher resolution version.) But that is not all, notice

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• iTunes Store sells three billion songs, keeps on truckin'

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:45 am

  Tags: Amazon, Apple, Itunes, Itunes Store, Itunesstore, Sales, Target

  the iTunes Store past Amazon and even Target to become the third largest music retailer in the US.While this is great news and all, I'm getting a bit bothered by the fact that music is gaining more and more of the bragging rights from Apple lately. TV shows seem to be selling pretty well, but just seeing '500 movies' printed in this press

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• Apple's 5.5G iPods receive stealthy price cuts

  Published: July 31, 2007, 2:23 pm

  Tags: 5 5g, Amazon, Apple, Best Buy, Bestbuy, Circuit City, Circuitcity, Ipod, Ipod Video, Ipod With Video, Ipodvideo, Ipodwithvideo, J And R, Jandr

  video) for about $20 off at Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City and J&R online stores. Notable exceptions include Target's online store, and Wal-mart, which doesn't sell iPods online. It's anyone's guess as to what actually sparked these price drops. It could be a way for traditional retailers to compete with Apple's aggressive back to school

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• Amazon To Launch Payments Services; Will Compete With PayPal and Google Checkout

  Published: August 1, 2007, 5:49 am

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Amazon

  for a launch announcement by Amazon this week or next of a new web service around payments, adding to their S3 (storage), EC2 (virtual server) and other services. They’ve been quietly testing the service, which will compete with PayPal and Google Checkout, for a few weeks. It is an extension of the existing Amazon Payments, which allows

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• Xbox 360 HD DVD Player Sales On The Rise

  Published: August 2, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: Microsoft, Amazon, Best Buy, Blu Ray, Conclusion, Economics, Favorite System, Free Movies, Hd Dvd Player, Movers Shakers, My Favorite, Sweet Deal, S Sales, Upswing, Xbox 360 Hd Dvd Player

  did before. Looking through Amazon.com’s sales rank movers and shakers, the Xbox 360 HD DVD player’s sales increased over 1,000% since the $20 price drop. Who needs economics 101 when you’ve got Amazon.com. And if you’re looking to cash in on this super sweet deal, give your local Best Buy a try, some stores are offering

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• Amazon Flexible Payments Service Launches

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:14 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Amazon

  predicted, Amazon launched a new payments web service today called Amazon Flexible Payments Service, or FPS. It will compete with Paypal and Google Checkout. FPS, Amazon says, “is the first payments service designed from the ground up specifically for developers” and “unmatched flexibility in how they can structure payment

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• Amazon Payments API Launches

  Published: August 3, 2007, 11:23 am

  Tags: Amazon, Shopping

  API launches in awhile, Amazon just officially released their Flexible Payment Service, FPS. It’s a powerful payment service that supports credit cards, bank account debits, and Amazon Payments balance transfers. The service, in limited beta now, competes directly with the PayPal API, the Google Checkout API, and other payment APIs.

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• Amazon invests in Apple-fighting start-up

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:15 am

  Tags: Aapl, Amazon, Amzn, Apple

  strategy, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN)Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is investing in a new company called AmieStreet which prices music downloads based on their popularity on the service. According to Reuters "executives at Warner Music Group and other music labels have complained that songs should not all be sold at one price" Apple (NASDAQ:

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• Amazon begins selling fresh food

  Published: August 6, 2007, 6:50 am

  Tags: Amazon, Amazon Com, Amazonfresh, Mercer Island, Mercerisland, Seattle

  Stores & ShoppingAmazon.com, the Seattle-based juggernaut, that revolutionized the way America buys everything from books and CDs to Le Creuset cookware is at it again. This time around it's set its sights on fresh foods. Last week it announced that it will begin selling farm-fresh produce and meat online. True to form, one of the

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• Make Money Reselling Amazon EC2 AMIs

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:20 am

  Tags: Money, Amazon

  monetize their mashups, Amazon is giving EC2 API developers a new way to make money. How? With their new Paid AMI support program. It lets creators of EC2 AMIs, or Amazon Machine Images, a means for reselling their AMIs and earn an ongoing commission. This means customers of the EC2 virtual computing service can become resellers of their own

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• Performance tips for web applications

  Published: August 1, 2007, 12:27 pm

  Tags: Apache, Amazon Ecs, Performance, Php, Javascript, Css

  network (CDN) like akamai or Amazon S3. The benefit of using popular CDNs is that these CDNs are scaled and distributed and really knows how to serve your content faster than ever. Add an Expiry Header Expiry tags helps your browser to understand when to invalidate cache for a cached content. So you can ask how to add expiry header to your

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