Archive for the 'amazon' Category
The Price of Happiness: 10¢
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a self-described “marketplace for work.” The service lets you outsource tasks to a decentralized, on-demand, scalable workforce made up of thousands of Mechanical Turk Workers. The tasks are appropriately named Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) because the service is designed for repetitive tasks that can’t be done by a computer because they [...]
Want to know who’s really ahead in the election?! Forget Intrade and Trend Tracking…
The real truth can be found via Amazon.com’s Meters which are tracking the sales of presidential face masks!
Obama is ahead right now, 56% to 44%.
Store Shopping Is Dead.
Offline shopping is dead. Amazon.com killed it.
I’m a diehard Amazon fan, as friends can attest. The lovefest started in late 2005 with a free trial of the (then) brand new Amazon Prime service (tip via slickdeals.net). Whereas previously only orders exceeding $25 received free UPS Ground shipping, becoming an Amazon Prime costumer gave free two [...]
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Jonathan Wegener is a technology & marketing enthusiast living in Brooklyn. Jonathan was once told in an interview that he "thinks too much." He didn't get the job. But it was the greatest compliment he's ever received.
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