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Turns out the Amazon River has a wider, slower, subterranean twin.
Brazilian scientists discovered the river about two and a half miles (4 kilometers) beneath the mighty Amazon in the South American Amazon Basin. It flows west to east, just like the Amazon, and is about the same length (3,728 miles/6,000 kilometers). But that’s where the rivers’ twinularities end.
Are you finding it easier to get work done today? Are you plagued by fewer distractions? Perhaps you should thank Amazon. It turns out Amazon had a little hiccup this morning with its cloud services that some pretty big customers use. Those customers include Foursquare, Reddit and Quora, among others. I have to thank Chanel Lee of FanStuff for alerting me to the story. I read up on it over at The Next Web. I’m sure some users have felt a moment of panic — I’m one of them. How can I hope to maintain my status as Foursquare mayor of HowStuffWorks.com if I can’t check in?
Everyone has computers. Most everyone has used Amazon or a service like it to buy products with a computer. But buying something from Amazon is NOTHING like buying something from a knowledgeable salesperson in a store. How to fix this? By applying the Stuff of Genius to the online sales process and completely rethinking how [...]
Amazon started selling groceries and mailing them to your home back in 2006. This is a commercial of that era advertising this development: Amazon also came up with a subscription service, which is a novel way to think about groceries and staple items: Amazon is not the only one doing this kind of get-your-groceries-mailed-to-you approach. [...]
There’s a lot going on in tech news this week. Among the items I thought interesting include a report in The Wall Street Journal that Google is looking to introduce its own social networking service. I mean besides Orkut, Friend Connect and Buzz. Amir Efrati wrote that Google has been talking to social gaming giants Playfish, Playdom and Zynga about the possibility of bringing their wares to a Google-based service.
This article breaks down the cost of a book into its component parts and, in the process, provides some interesting facts about book publishing: Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book To print a $26 hardcover book the costs include: 1) The actual cost of printing and warehousing physical books: $3.25 2) Marketing: $1 3) The [...]
Imagine you are sitting someplace with some time to kill, and you would like to read a book. The place might be an airport, but it might also be a place much less likely to have a bookstore, like a train station, a cruise ship or a park. If you have a Kindle you are [...]
Vampire Bats Will Bite You — In the Amazon
by Sarah Dowdey | October 30, 2009
One of my favorite tabloid headlines from the now-defunct Weekly World News was this: “Vegan Vampires Attack Trees.” I can just see it — a particularly menacing vegan vampire, perhaps draped in an organic cotton cloak (wool would be inappropriate, right?), lurching toward a helpless tree, preferably maple.
But I’m here to discuss something nonvegan and decidedly bloody: the vampire bat.
There’s been a lot of talk in the news media about e-books lately, and it’s obvious that electronics manufacturers believe the public is finally coming around to the idea of electronic readers. Sales seem to be doing well. There are new models from established players Amazon and Sony. And there are new entries coming to market…
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