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The Overlooked Benefits of the Amazon Kindle
Posted by: | CommentsAmazon revolutionized the electronic book industry when it introduced the Kindle in 2007. The Kindle gets abundant praise for its near instantaneous wireless downloading of books, fast growing library of more than 350,000 books and ability to hold over 1,500 books on a device a little larger than a paperback. Besides these well known attributes, the Kindle offers many more benefits that make it a joy to own.
Amazon advertises that most books on the New York Times best sellers list are priced at $9.99 for the electronic Kindle version. Compared to the price of a newly released hardcover, the Kindle version is usually significantly cheaper. The economic benefit of owning a Kindle does not stop there. Amazon has made literally thousands of public domain titles available for free. Classics such… Continue reading the rest of this article...
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Shopping on the iPhone
Posted by: | CommentsThe Apple iPhone is more than just a phone. It’s a mobile computing platform and an Internet gateway that allows its user to do things on the go with an ease that has historically been relegated to the desktop computer. We can use social media sites like Facebook, or participate in microblogging on Twitter; we can use it as a tool to find restaurants and read reviews, find directions to those restaurants, and get recommendations on what to order there. These are all commonly discussed capabilities of the device – but people often don’t think about shopping as a mobile activity.
The darling of the internet shopping crowd, Amazon, provides a free application in the App store for shopping on their site. It’s fast, full-featured, and dangerous – it supports one-click… Continue reading the rest of this article...
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Creating viral video is a fine art, and one that does not really have any stone walls or clear cut definitions. From silly videos to smart advertising, the science of what spreads and what doesn’t is incredibly imprecise, and the ability of anyone to predict viral marketing success is incredibly suspect. Viral marketing is so effective because it’s difficult to predict, and with hundreds of people out there competing for attention, creating that ‘tipping point’ video is growing more and more difficult.















