Friday, September 14, 2007
How does everyone know it's my Birthday?
No, this isn't a plea for gifts, but heck, if you're so inclined, please opt for my Amazon Wish List, and not Facebook Virtual Gifts ;-)
Purpose for this post is yet another observation that Social Networking has arrived. In the past, I was always the guy who remembered everyone's birthday, by keeping track of the information in my calendar. Those days are over! Today I've been inundated with e-cards, email birthday greetings, phone calls, and even text-message/IM good tidings! Somewhere in the last 365 days, the world's changed in a massive way, and everyone's starting to hop on the social train.
I almost feel like there's been this incredibly slow traction graph working for the last 9+ years, with websites collecting our information, and actually making very little use of it. But now, a 'perfect storm of social networking' is upon us, and with the mashup abilities and information/profile sharing, we're starting to see the very beginnings of the benefits of the enter once/appear everywhere phenomenon.
I really look forward to the next few years, and seeing how it unfolds in unexpected ways. Of course, I can't believe that I only have 365 more days until I enter my 40's -- acck!
Purpose for this post is yet another observation that Social Networking has arrived. In the past, I was always the guy who remembered everyone's birthday, by keeping track of the information in my calendar. Those days are over! Today I've been inundated with e-cards, email birthday greetings, phone calls, and even text-message/IM good tidings! Somewhere in the last 365 days, the world's changed in a massive way, and everyone's starting to hop on the social train.
I almost feel like there's been this incredibly slow traction graph working for the last 9+ years, with websites collecting our information, and actually making very little use of it. But now, a 'perfect storm of social networking' is upon us, and with the mashup abilities and information/profile sharing, we're starting to see the very beginnings of the benefits of the enter once/appear everywhere phenomenon.
I really look forward to the next few years, and seeing how it unfolds in unexpected ways. Of course, I can't believe that I only have 365 more days until I enter my 40's -- acck!
Labels: amazon, birthday, facebook, social networking
Friday, April 20, 2007
Amazon.com Should have RSS Feeds on Product Detail Pages
I was recently checking out some pages on Amazon.com and realized that it would be really useful if I could subscribe to an RSS Feed for one of their product/detail pages.
This would allow me to be notified (via my RSS Reader, or email, actually), regarding changes such as:
- price
- reviews
- in-stock
- pictures/videos
- discussions
Come on Amazon -- why not give this to customers? They'd love it!
This would allow me to be notified (via my RSS Reader, or email, actually), regarding changes such as:
- price
- reviews
- in-stock
- pictures/videos
- discussions
Come on Amazon -- why not give this to customers? They'd love it!
Labels: amazon, amazon.com, rss
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Amazon Hack -- hit 'tt' on any Product Page to add tags on the fly
Damon just showed me a new Amazon Hack -- from any Amazon.com Product Page, just hit 'tt' on your keyboard, and up pops an 'Add a Tag' box -- cool!
Anyone know of some other hidden javascript hacks for Amazon?
Popup looks like this:
Anyone know of some other hidden javascript hacks for Amazon?
Popup looks like this:
Labels: amazon, amazon.com, hack, tags, tt
