The announcement that Amazon is opening a Digital Media Center in London is further evidence that the company is keen to move deeper into the media content space. The center is going to focus on the development of user focused applications to stream content. This development will be drawing upon...
Nick Carr has a great response to the buzz and attention surrounding Amazon’s new e-reader launches and points out a fact about the changed reading experience they want to bring about. “The video is something of a Rorschach test. A person of the web may see X-Ray as a glorious advance....
Here's another good example of a huge brand creating an experience that fits the iPad. Amazon is clearly keen to push itself into a number of channels and has already had massive success with mobile. With its new iPad application, it demonstrates an understanding of "the lean back" experience by...
The likes of the Gilt Group seem to have shaken up the retail space and brought something different to the marketplace. There seems no shortage of funding and deals with one of the latest being Amazon's rumored $3 billion purchase of the French company, Vente- Privee.Flash sales sites seem to have...
This month's Inc Magazine has an interesting story about Zappos and Amazon that makes it very clear why Amazon acquired them. Here are some of the key points:1. Always imagined Zappos as selling more than shoes- used Virgin as a model, but instead of being all about being "hip and cool",...
If the continuing financial crisis has told us one thing, it’s that you can’t trust the experts. Everywhere you look supposed experts and authority figures seem to have been clueless; from the ratings agencies, to governments and senior officers and large financial corporations. It...
In those long past heady days of 2006, there was talk amongst some analysts and bloggers that the creators of user-generated content would be getting paid lots of real cash for their hard work and effort. There was a school of thought that said some of the billions should and might be shared...
Doubleclick did an interesting piece of research last year, they asked consumers what forms of advertising (media) they thought worthwhile and what they would eliminate. The results are somewhat suprising- despite living in a DVR world, only 7% would prefer to eliminate them, less than 2%...