TagsTagsThe rumors were accurate; today Amazon announced version 2 of their revolutionary e-book reader, the Kindle. You can pre-order the device now at this page; it begins shipping February 24th: Amazon.com: Kindle 2: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation).
Coming tomorrow: Kindle 2. (For sale February 24th.) I absolutely love my version 1 Kindle, and it’s going to be really hard to resist splurging on the new one. This is one of the most-used electronic toys I own. UPDATE at 2/8/09 9:17:40 pm: More details at the NYT’s Bits Blog: Amazon’s Kindle ...
Glenn points out a cool Christmas Day deal at Amazon: some movies for $0.99 (and a lot more for $5.99).
Every once in a great while we point out particularly good deals at Amazon or other sites; it has to be exceptional or we don’t bother mentioning it. Amazon’s Black Friday 2008 is one of those exceptional deals, lots of cool gadgets, camera gear, DVDs and other stuff at 40-50% ...
I just glanced in my Amazon email folder and discovered that they’re offering a free trial of their Amazon Prime service: for $79 a year you get unlimited free 2-day delivery on anything with no minimum order, or next-day delivery for $3.99 if you need it right away. One of ...
After evaluating the impact of our new live updating code for the “Now Playing” section of the left sidebar, I’ve decided to limit the live updates to registered, logged in users. At our normal peak traffic times, with thousands of browsers checking the server at 30 second intervals via Ajax, ...
LGF, Tech Note, Javascript, Now Playing, Music, Amazon, Optimization
The “Now Playing” section of our left sidebar, which is set up to show the music or other weird sounds that are currently playing in iTunes on my machine, now updates in an “almost live” fashion. With Ajax and a Javascript timer, it checks the server every 20 seconds to ...
If you have a Blu-ray disc player, Amazon has a great deal on Blu-ray titles right now: Buy Two Blu-ray Discs, Get One Free. And the discs themselves are discounted by about 30%. It’s good through April 18th.
I’ve been buying quite a bit of music through iTunes because it’s so easy, and relatively inexpensive, but I just became aware of Amazon.com MP3 Downloads—and in some ways it’s a better deal than iTunes. First, Amazon’s even cheaper than iTunes Store, about a dollar less for an entire album. Second, Amazon’s ...
LGF, Tech Review, Amazon, Music, MP3
We have an update on the story of Martin Strel, who’s swimming the length of Amazon, braving the piranha and the candiru (shudder) for world peace. He’s been at it for a little less than two weeks, has 8 weeks to go, and he’s got a major sunburn: Blistering sun ...
Martin Strel plans to swim the length of the Amazon River for world peace. But this peace mission is different than most; it requires buckets of blood. Ironic enough? LIMA (Reuters) - Few would even dare swim the Amazon river bank to bank but Slovenian Martin Strel plans to swim 3,375 miles ...
The LGF playlist generator is now integrated with the LGF Blog Engine, and if everything works correctly, you should see an MP3 player below with album covers fetched (and cached locally) from Amazon, and a list of all the tracks with links to the Amazon pages where you can purchase ...
I’ve been experimenting with a beta feature of Amazon’s associate program, that pops up a little window with extended information when your mouse pointer hovers over a link to an Amazon product, like the album covers in our “Now Playing” section. The window shows a link to the product page ...