I’m a little worried about these recommendations that appeared after adding a very dull (but worthy) Plone book to my shopping basket. Quite what they’re trying to say about me I don’t know.
If you have 8 minutes with some speakers this is well worth a watch. From 2004, but some of its predictions are remarkably prescient. (Link for those of you without embedding).
Found at waxy.org – Items on Amazon you probably shouldn’t buy.
Following on sharply from the post a few days ago about iSearchBetter comes the news that Amazon are opening up a pay per click network within their own pages. To me this is just another step down an already very slippery slope. They are a shop, not a portal. I go there to buy things. If it becomes difficult (by which I mean either hard or unpleasant) to fulfil that task I will stop going. Cannibalism of your own market is a very dangerous game. I’m starting to look for another store, which after 9 years of dedicated custom should probably be taken as a very bad sign…
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