Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’
Amazon Terminates Affiliate Program in California-Just Sit Back and Watch the Money Roll In, CA!
As a totally inactive Amazon affiliate and a Californian, I got two emails from Amazon yesterday. One said this: “For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of California residents. Unfortunately, a potential new law that may be signed by Governor Brown compels us to terminate this program for California-based [...]
Everybody’s a Rock Star Somewhere, Part 2
(If you want, go back and catch up on what led into this story from yesterday. If you don’t, it’s ok. You’ll still get it.) Here’s a little story I want to share from two start-ups that I’ve been a part of. The first, which I won’t name, but those of you who know me [...]
Plan Your Garden; Don’t Just Complain about Weeds
In the future (or if somehow people from the past traveled to the present), “paywall” is one of those words that would probably puzzle them. Just like when we sing the “Star Spangled Banner,” most people probably don’t have a perfectly clear idea of what a “rampart” is*, in the future “paywall” is one of [...]
Why Yelp Needs $50 Million
There’s a story on techcrunch today that Yelp is raising $50 million, on top of the $30 million or so that they’ve already raised. Part of it, apparently, is to give current employees some liquidity from their long-held stock. Fair enough. They’ve done a great job building a product that people really like. But assume [...]
Twitter: The Most Successful Website Ever that Only Kinda Works
If you use Twitter today, you know what I mean. It goes down frequently, often in the middle of a session for just a few seconds. Today, it’s up, but tweets are in a time warp, stuck 3 or 4 hours ago and not updating properly. Often, you click on a button and the progress [...]
Live 2.0 Now Available on Your Kindle
I know, I know, you can’t wait to read Live 2.0 on your Kindle…when you get one…when they’re not $350. I admit I have a Kindle. In fact, I ditched my Kindle for a Kindle 2. It’s one of the few things in a world where flying cars and meals in an easily digested capsule [...]
Stubhub on the Selling Block?
Here’s a mostly unsubstantiated rumor that suggests eBay may be considering spinning off Stubhub. The key snippet is here: “With parent company eBay announcing Tuesday that it was spinning off its Skype internet telephone company, speculation is beginning to mount that the online auctions giant might also shed its StubHub division.” This is highly speculative, [...]
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