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- Tools are easy now, data is hard; Background culture; Tingly is a decision I have to live with; Uniqueness Index … 5 I’m afraid you can’t put the genie back in the Amazon Prime Same Day Genie Delivery Box. Fine, I say can’t. I mean it …
- It Was Supposed To Be Different; Reading Material … I did a bunch of research and there are shitty basic no-name Chinese watches flooding Amazon, we tried them, they couldn’t even reliably keep track of …
- It’s Not 2006 Anymore; The Useful, Vernacular Institution; What Is Free Our Feeds, Anyway? … government saying “hey, if you want us to use Amazon Web Services to power government services, then we want those physical datacenters to not be in us-east …
- Decide What’s Important; Tacit Admission … Is super useful as a consumer, yeah? Is a tacit admission that Amazon is a marketplace that does carry a lot of tat? And that Amazon doesn’t …
- Fine, Social Networks; Are you in? … Used to be, the way to do that was to use Goodreads, which a) isn’t actually that great an experience to use, b) got bought by Amazon …
- Low-Hanging Fruit, Information Processing, and People Problems … Amazon has form here, because the very systems that enable this kind of piece work are inspired by one of the leaders in this space, Amazon’s Mechanical …
- Everything is Better, Except... … Edge cases have exploded Edge case exception handling remains (intentionally?) unoptimized and deprioritized (There’s an exception to this, which is probably the ease with which Amazon lets …
- What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide … The other thing that crops up is the example that the early codename for Amazon’s Kindle while it was in development was Fiona . I digress. Perhaps the …
- Personality; A Rule about Designing Games … Buying from Amazon is kind of a crapshoot even if you can see what it is you’re buying . ↩︎ What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? | IBM ( archive.is …
- Dark; Forward-Looking Barn Door Statements … a dark pattern as "when Amazon tries to stop me from doing something that's in my interest, but not in Amazon's interest", what might look like …
- The Torment Nexus Section; RFPs, man. RFPs. … 365 Group Mulls Deeper Integration with Discord Partnership [2] Seeking to Control Costs, Amazon Eyes Sale of Twitch Streamer to Google, as Workplace Struggles to Find Relevance with …
- It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful … in Netflix, and used in social feeds Automating access to human labour, like Amazon's mechanical turk, or other APIs for humans, like Uber and other gig economy …
- Tech Journalism, But Not Tech Journalism; Sounds More Like A You Problem … It's the kind of thing places like Amazon would be super excited about. It is a thing enabled by scraped datasets, in particular the CLIP model. It …
- Concept Art … Recent examples include Amazon Prime Video's adaptation of William Gibson's The Peripheral , and Apple TV+'s adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation .) Back last year, Chadeisson …
- Platform Exclusivity: Microsoft / Activision Blizzard … eBooks only get released on Amazon with DRM, whereas others get released on more platforms and even sometimes without DRM (on Amazon, too) Some podcasts are platform-exclusive …
- It was only a receipt; It's a social problem, not a technology problem; Stupid smart lights … It was one of those Alexa nightlights[^alexa], no microphone, controllable only by talking to something that does have a microphone and is backed into Amazon's billions …
- Universal Basic Compute … Even recently! Again! (Take, for example, my characterization of the current OpenStreetMaps kerfuffle with the Amazon/Linux Foundation/Meta/Microsoft initiated Overture Maps Foundation). So what internet services …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … Hell, Amazon-owned DPReview might even have one, and I think of that site because it has a robust and thriving community that has a lot to talk …
- Standards; The Bird in the Room … The adaptation of William Gibson's The Peripheral is out today on Amazon Prime Video which on some degree is laughs weakly what can you do hilarious because …
- What it means to be PlayStation with Netflix in the room; What's Simlish for Metaverse? … threatening competitor [3] , not another media streaming brand like Disney, HBO Max or Amazon Prime Video. As an aside, I don't know if Netflix will ever change …
- Form Factors; Weaponizing typos to own the libs … headset , Ina Fried, Axios, 11 October, 2022 ↩︎ The Peripheral Season 1 - Official Trailer , Amazon Prime Video ↩︎ The Peripheral , Wikipedia ↩︎ Robots Are Helping Immunocompromised Kids ‘Go to School’ ( archive …
- It's a trombone, a midi controller, and a videogame controller... … I completely missed that Alexa has been running on custom Amazon silicon since at least November 2020. I was going to say "Alexa's non-corporeal existence" but …
- Conan, What Is Worst In Life, And Why? … primary care) which is how we get situations like One Medical popping up, combining exciting new subscription business models with getting acquired by Amazon. In banking, you're …
- Domestication … Domestication Two Amazon-related things caught my attention that are kind of smushed together in my head. First, John Gruber, who has opinions about Apple and Apple products …
- iRobot haven't been involved in PackBot for at least 6 years, Dan … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention I'm tired so while I could go on and on about Amazon acquiring iRobot for $1.7 billion, which …
- Lights … Okay, so what's a shit version? A shit version is an app, or a feature inside Amazon or Phillips or GE or Target or whomever's app …
- Just Put Dr. Ian Malcolm On Our Tombstone Already … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention What is the point of OpenAI, again? Yesterday I very briefly linked to Amazon's demo of Alexa mimicking voices …
- PROMPT-LE … a standards body isn't necessarily a bad thing? Next to that in a Reuters story is Amazon apparently having a plan to do style transfer on voices …
- Exaflops Ahead; The Store with Too Much; Deceptive Design … In Amazon's case, they've decided to act as a storefront to suppliers, and (it feels to me at least) that there's minimal effort at dealing …
- Shattered … Because you order something from Amazon, say, and it's the wrong thing or you need to talk to them and, well, good luck. Good fucking goddamn luck …
- Dan Hon is Away, Still … s really not what Star Trek: Call Center is like. Or Star Trek: Amazon Fulfilment Warehouse. Or Star Trek: Knowledge Worker. (An aside: Tom and I were also …
- A Method for Efficient Exploration of Search Space … something something Neural Engine/Bionic? I do not know where Microsoft or Amazon are here, other than "buying nVidia" oh wait, let's make a note of that …
- A Short Conversation About NATO … Which led me to the interesting thought of If We Can Have A One-Click (buy) Patent from Amazon then Why Don't We Have A One Click …
- "Gestures futilely at late-stage capitalism dystopia" … How are you doing? Best, Dan Precursor on Crowd Supply ↩︎ Yes, another Young Lady's Illustrated Primer reference, you did know the original Kindle's codename at Amazon …
- Eight Short Pieces In Fifteen Minutes Or Less … SOMETIME AFTERWARDS depending on how I figure out getting stuff into Apple and Amazon. So! If you're not already a subscriber/supporter and you're interested, then …
- You Won't Believe These 10 Jira Tricks … Har Har Ars Technica says Attackers can force Amazon Echos to hack themselves with self-issued commands . I say: "Alexa, play the album Eternal Golden Braid by the …
- A short conversation with a bank … with Gmail, where you were so aggressive about mining receipt data from Amazon that when I get a receipt from Amazon now it doesn't actually include what …
- They only went and taught the sand to do maths … When someone working for Amazon, at the direction of Amazon, is the last part of a vast coordination of work resulting in the delivery of a package to …
- For want of a screenless MP3 player … Orchard (Amazon) ↩︎ Sturgeon’s Law (Wikipedia), the one about 90% of everything being crap ↩︎ I admit it ] ↩︎ A billion dollars! At least, so says Wikipedia . A billion dollars …
- New clouds; Spreadsheets; Half-lives; Snow Crashing chapters 17 and 18 … make using this guide from Vice from 2018, “ With $20 of Gear from Amazon, Nearly Anyone Can Make This IMSI-Catcher in 30 Minutes ” ↩︎ Enterprise Resource Planning , Wikipedia ↩︎
- Mist, everywhere … They recently posted about using Graviton2 , Amazon’s custom ARM-architecture processor designed by wholly-owned subsidiary Annapurna Labs . Jon Masters at RedHat replied, asking about the remaining …
- Three Things … Amazon does have engineering for Amazon Studios and know they have some custom production software they’ve built (hello to you people who know), but I don’t …
- How can I help you? … mine) work as an account on Amazon.com and also an account on Amazon.co.uk, but they are actually different accounts sometimes but not really?) How does …
- The Defensive Patent Pool … about how phones take pictures, that this is different from feeling like an Amazon Echo is always listening to you . At the very least when you open a …
- On The Precipice, supporter edition … Users can already feel the pain to some extent – every time we dismiss another GDPR pop-up or navigate to Amazon’s website (not their iOS app) to …
- On The Precipice … Users can already feel the pain to some extent – every time we dismiss another GDPR pop-up or navigate to Amazon’s website (not their iOS app) to …
- What's the EGOT for Technology and Arts? … mean, Barack Obama liked it, and is being adapted into a series for Amazon). Naomi’s also the writer behind Six to Start’s Zombie’s, Run! and …
- This Is Your Regular Reminder … really racist? , 2009] This is your regular reminder that speech recognition used by Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft on average misidentified words around 35% of the time …
- Take your time reading this one … Take that, Portal, Amazon Echo Show,e tc. A great thread from Dan Hill (and others) on how COVID-19 has been a forcing function that’s let …
- Titles, am I right? … I mean, Amazon have only just gotten around to starting to roll out different accounts on the Amazon Prime video app. — Anyway. That’s a bunch of stuff …
- The ATCR Boundary … easier, because they’re what we have now. Facebook’s feed, for sure. Amazon’s “people who bought… also bought” recommender. Netflix’s recommender. We needn’t even …
- Flint and Kindling … door view of a country where millions of Amazon customers use Amazon cameras to watch Amazon contractors deliver Amazon packages ” of which my only comment is that the …
- Software from trauma, or, fingers crossed the only blockchain episode of 2020 … I’ve had a fondness like many others for things like the Nabaztag that I feel Google and Amazon are still grasping toward with their ambient information always …
- Learning the world … Alexa Answers is a new-to-me service from Amazon that gamifies question answering to build a knowledge base for its smart assistant. It feels like it’s …
- Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me? … Because it’s not necessarily the Amazon Echo that’s tattling on you and the Amazon Echo that’s acting as a smart home IoT hub and sending …
- Little things; Snow Crashing Ch 14 part 1 … There’s a piece I read (and copied) about Amazon’s memo structure for meeting, and when I used it for a recent report and update, the response …
- What Kind of Day Has It Been … Where I am, the days are short and dark, Christmas lights and decorations are spawning all over house exteriors and there’s that consistent patter of Amazon deliveries …
- Do you have WiFi? / Liars are bad … weird Republican idea of food-in-a-box direct to the door via Amazon Prime. Sure, why not! But the act of administration itself requires some sort of …
- An extra bit … There is a whole thing about the ring light Amazon’s Echo that feels like it could be used for more context other than red (turned off because …
- Snow Crashing … a "stark naked Brandy" avatar turns up, but it's not even the default, a cheap knockoff from Taiwan, much like a contemporary knockoff Chinese toy on Amazon …
- Stop Using Nouns … 1.1 Amazon Everything OK, so Amazon announced a bunch of stuff called “Day 1” this week, which included products like Echo Buds—not little minifigs so that …
- Breaking the rules … how it FRAND might be applied to, say, search algorithms and Apple and Amazon etc not favoring their own products in search results. My undergrad law student experience …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … Instead, a whole bunch of people who don’t have IT departments are busy buying their servers from Amazon, which… makes sense, I suppose, you’ve heard that …
- Firebreak Protocol … I recently accidentally read Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette [ Wikipedia , Amazon ] (soon to be a major motion picture from Annapurna starring Cate Blanchett!), which read …
- Change your organization, or change your organization … I mention this because we should remember it every time Bezos says that Amazon relentlessly focuses on the customer and there are definitely pieces of the Amazon experience …
- You're The Mayor of Terminal B Airside at SMF Airport! … The Case of Amazon and the related concepts of digital capitalism and the creeping encroachment (not that it wasn’t obvious, in some respects?) of state functions from …
- Sherlock Holmes and the Slack Channel Names … Inexpensive Dry-erase markers. * Steven Frank discovers an attempt to out-do those Amazon reviews that say “I don’t know, why are you asking me” in response …
- As at Batman, I want a Batcomputer so that I can remain unchallenged as The World’s Greatest Detective … etc. * Someone took a look at how commerical face detection (not identification!) services (Amazon, IBM, Google, Microsoft) perform (with an admittedly small sample size of 33 images) and …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … This isn't to say that Amazon haven't done *any* work thinking about how Alexa works in a kid context (Honan's article shows that they've …
- Acquisition and ingest mode, dial for a wide spread … not, I imagine, the approved and more optimized route of Alexa working with Amazon Prime Music). An example: wanting to listen to Schubert's 8th symphony and listening …
- Division by Infinity … Trust me, it all fits together.) So why do AFGAM (Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft) - and some of these more than others - persist in pushing their vision of …
- Fully Connected, Feed Forward … Facebook, Google, Amazon), but I think orders of magnitude *easier* for it to happen to a legacy, entrenched company. Like Equifax or Experian. Maybe even Tesco or Walmart …
- A future of working … will reward it with money so it can buy more GPU capacity on Amazon to learn how to make better comics. Anyway, I digress. Forgot a gigging future …
- End of Process … because Bezos is saying that he's terrified that one day Amazon might stop being focussed on outcomes and instead become focussed on processes. Bezos says that one …
- Earl Grey, Hot (again, probably) … Tiger's Neighborhood" but if you say "Alexa, play music from Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood from Amazon Music" she'll happily do that. The old way of explaining …
- I'm OK … Of course, this could *also* be an amusing strategic fakeout to get, I dunno, Amazon or HBO to spin into trying to do interactive telvision with branching narrative …
- Not Actually A Law … But! Maybe in this case the precise nature of the affiliate/referral marketing is different? There are no sales targets from Amazon going toward The Wirecutter. Amazon is …
- Tiny Brains Mewling In All The Things … a hundredth of a bitcoin/imaginary currency/20 cents that accrue in an account until Flickr/Yahoo/Verizon feel like paying out, a bit like Amazon Associates fees …
- Something is better than nothing … After that, of course, you need a monthly subscription to an Amazon/Hasbro GPU farm pasture for your My Little Bot Pony to continue to grow and learn …
- SMALL MOVES, ELLIE … If you ever need spare parts, Amazon knows exactly what will and won't work, and will sort it for you by product review score. Amazon can do …
- The usual: nouns, adverbs, adjective here and there … As well as aforementioned smart driving stuff. [0] Cognitive Surplus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [1] Amazon USA | Amazon UK -- Anyway, that's it for today. Kind of split …
- Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it … I've also managed - somehow - to continue the trend of naming newsletter episodes after quotes from Contact[0]. [0] Contact ( Amazon US , Amazon UK ) 1.0 Google's …
- OK TO GO … only tell you to go and read Matthew de Abaitua's The Destructives ( Amazon Kindle ) so many more times, but if I haven't already persuaded you, then …
- This Generation's Commodore 64 … twelve days time. [0] Amazon Echo Is Magical. It’s Also Turning My Kid Into an Asshole. | Hunter Walk [1] s2e14: What You'll Reap; Foo Thoughts; The …
- Of Course I Still Love You … themselves into it. - I finished reading Matthew de Abaitua's The Destructives [ US Amazon affiliate ] to which I am preparing a *long thought* in response, and all I …
- Patterns in the noise … Hall (@lauraehall) | Twitter [2] Law proposed lets you cancel Comcast online with one click [3] Product Guy Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues | TechCrunch [4] The Amazon …
- Portions Of This Consciousness Are Copyright … multiple sources? A sort of "Portions of this Consciousness are (C) Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Apple; licenses are available in the EULA"[9] That's a silly question …
- Black Design … that their work has influenced and that the studio has been involved in: Amazon Dash buttons[7]. Palantir[8]. Something called ANPR[9], that I jot down in …
- Coffee; Brands; Stream, Stock and Flow; Paperless … extensions that let me quickly see if a movie I'm looking at Amazon or wherever is available on Netflix - Better reminders that let me know when movies …
- The Random Walk Strategy; The Wrong Way Round; Miscellanea … This is, I suppose, how culture works these days. [0] IF THEN - Matthew De Abaitua, Amazon [1] ELEKTROGRAD - RUSTED BLOOD - Warren Ellis, Amazon [2] THE PERIPHERAL - William Gibson …
- Recreational Capitalism (3); Miscellanea … network, and I still haven't spent the time setting up a proper Amazon EC2 GPU instance (ie: get Torch and CUDA working properly) to run it somewhere …
- Recreational Capitalism (2); ... Or The Easy Way … other than the consulting and speaking gigs that come in and the occasional Amazon affiliate link. So, you know, journalists and other "people who write" don't have …
- Hello babies; Post-Apocalyptic Duolingo; Recreational Capitalism … Things That Have Caught My Attention [4] Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace - The New York Times [5] What to Make of Amazon's Work …
- Dreaming of writing; Just some notes … I also spent the weekend wrestling with Amazon's AWS. But more on that... 1.0 Deep Writing I have a late 2013 13in Retina MacBook Pro, which …
- Battlesuits; Simulations and Puppyslugs; Scratchpad … You're bathed in it. [0] The Peripheral - Amazon [1] The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future - Matt Jones [2] Geoffrey West Finds the Physical Laws …
- What You'll Reap; Foo Thoughts; The Next Generation … one* of the points that he has to make is that unlike Siri, Amazon Echo/Alexa is designed as a servile female voice that you can be curt …
- On Advertising. Again. … a book" using a digital service, starting from the first delivery service that Amazon launched with. I don't know how many more ways there are to say …
- Bob Rife Is Real; Digital Secure Confusion … WHAT DOES CHINA KNOW? [0] Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson - Amazon [1] Snow Crash - Wikipedia [2] China is Building an Absolutely Massive Radio Telescope - io9 [3] Yuri Milner - Wikipedia …
- The Puppyslugs; Car Phishing; 24th Century Procurement … The Next Generation Technical Manual - Amazon [2] Why can’t Washington build a website? -- That's enough for today. Best, Dan
- 2015 (1); A Manifesto Walks Into A Website; Stuff About The Web And Post Capitalism Again … Techdirt [5] Brock Winstead on Twitter: "So is Amazon basically a server farm with a gift shop now?" [6] Amazon Crushes Q2 Results as AWS Growth Skyrockets | Re …
- Everything … Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. [2] Scientific Proof That Cities Are Like Nothing Else in Nature - CityLab [3] Geoffrey West Finds the Physical Laws Embedded in Human …
- Episode Two Hundred and Eight: … Please send them to me! [1] The Art of Gig / Ribbonfarm, Venkatesh Rao [2] The Art of Gig II / Ribbonfarm, Venkatesh Rao [3] The Mezzanine - Wikipedia ( Amazon ) [4 …
- The System Of The World; Hard Takeoff … DeepMind Means for A.I. - The New Yorker [3] Acadia: James Erwin: 9780978501686: Amazon.com: Books [4] Official website for James Erwin | Dad, husband, author, screenwriter [ [5] Rome …
- Noticings; Insecure; No Jobs But What We Make … but then I also similarly wouldn't be surprised - given their acquisition by Amazon - if they *did* do such a thing. As with everything, it feels a bit …
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now … You can kind of tell this from the headers because the emails originate from EC2, Amazon's cloud web service. This software crawls the web and I can …
- Our Crap Connected Future; Oh My God More Advertising; Echo … how much is this thing going to cost? What's Amazon's plan here? Is it to just embarrass themselves? [1] http://www.amazon.com/oc/echo [2 …
- The Starship Enterprise; How Do You Solve A Problem Like Digital? … s really not what Star Trek: Call Center is like. Or Star Trek: Amazon Fulfilment Warehouse. Or Star Trek: Knowledge Worker. (An aside: Tom and I were also …
- Depth, Not Breadth … It's the kind of thing that leads to weird situations like Target deciding to outsource its website to Amazon[3], a decision that they made back in …
- Small Pieces, Loosely Joined; The New Slang … billions of screws, holding a precarious structure together? The rumoured rolling-outages at Amazon point to a cloud where infrastructural complexity has been abstracted away, and you don …
- They Don't Owe You Anything; Awkwardly Specialised … But then you look at companies like Walmart and Amazon *and* Toyota together and consider them a bit like this: those successful companies do do one thing, and …
- The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy … Finding problems to change the world, right? It makes me think of Amazon. One of their major costs right now for the part of their business that is …
- The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density … Or, you know, Amazon provides the service and runs backend vision processing spun-up on its servers that will dynamically provide buy-it-now links when you view …
- "Web" "Content" "Strategy"; "Probably Not"; Firewall Earth; To Clean The House … Another one where Amazon counters with drone cleaning robots - the ideal combination of automation and cheap human labour, robots that can clean your house, humans who guide them …
- Not Doing A Nick Bilton; Counterexamples; echofuckingpraxia … everyone's so eager to keep a baseline pet on board. [1] Echopraxia - Amazon.com -- That's all for today. As ever, send me notes, and I really …
- I'm a Barista; More "Valley"; More Uber; They Create Jobs, Don't They?; Dumb Telcos … I'm pretty sure that Uber's end-goal is to be the Amazon of logistics - of moving things - not just people, from one place to another. Today …
- Relentless; Tech And Media, Not Or; 2014 … it's OK to like Amazon for certain things (they have made it very easy to buy things, for example) and OK to not like Amazon for other …
- Another Way; Bottom-Up; Oh, Is That The Time … an airline, or a government agency and the service delivered a bit like Amazon's Mayday, instead. Sure, you need to "call" from some sort of computing device …
- Belong; Snow Crashing (9); Humans As A Service … their play in the Moves Everything market in much the same way that Amazon is focussed on the Sells Everything market. Uber's transcendence to the Moves Everything …
- A Real Hunger; Will The Real Blue Ant; A Category Error … saying Netflix is a website is a bit like saying Google is a website compared to your library, or Amazon is a website compared to Best Buy or …
- The Material (4); More Ways Of Seeing … Along the same lines, Robin Sloan wrote an interesting piece about the Amazon Fire phone at the Farmer's Market[2] and, in my mind, what we choose …
- What You Want; Messiahs; The List … These are all Amazon Affiliate links too, so if you buy things, they go toward my son's nascent college fund, provided college doesn't get disrupted in …
- Meat Puppets; The Circuit … the cloud ("everything that doesn't happen on the phone takes place on Amazon Web Services and is designed for scaleability"). The second risk is again, of user …
- This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots … And then I'll bloom. [1] Amazon: http://amzn.to/1lB5X3w 3.0 Who Owns The Robots That's the sting of Alex Payne's well-written critique …
- Recurring; Better, But Not Best … I don't count DNS or hosting among these - they seem somewhat esoteric even now - but instead things like Flickr, Amazon Prime, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Dropbox, Netflix …
- Continued Disruption; Snow Crashing (7); Edge of Tomorrow … Now, the Motley Fool report says that Amazon says the robot deployment won't impact the size of its human workforce (if true, this is Amazon catching up …
- Disruption; Supply Chains; The Good Bit … the Guardianista sandal-wearing among us fret every time we use Amazon because ohmygosh it's so convenient but did you hear how they treat their workers[2 …
- Supply Chain Management For Seven Billion; Too Early; WATCH_DOGS … Utzschneider's talk was interesting not because of the advertising bits (blah blah opportunites for brands to connect with consumers) but because it illuminated Amazon's goal of …
- Day One; Google Everything … In this war, it looks like Metafilter might be wounded, and we'll know in the next year or so whether mortally so. [1] Design for Community - Amazon …
- The Next Big Thing In Drugs; As If You Needed Another NYT Opinion; Experience This; The Value Of The Thing … The logical conclusion of this, of course - and I'm not sure if something like Amazon Flow[2] does anything like this, but the idea of being able …
- Board-Level Algorithms; You Speak GIF, Right?; Intent; Odds … 5] http://deepknowledgeventures.com [6] http://www.insilicomedicine.com/#!/ [7] Everyone In Silico: Amazon: http://amzn.to/RFQMJ1 Powell's: http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781568582405 2.0 …
- Cities; Disruptive; Still Brittle … transportation is. [1] Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities: Amazon: http://amzn.to/1iZ4e0x Powell's: http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780679741954 [2] Zipf …
- The Book and The Library; More Responsive OS … So, er, a bit like Amazon, only with a little bit more walking and a lot less having to deal with crap last-mile physical fulfillment. I suspect …
- Transcendence; Broom-Shaped Objects; Odds … No biscuit for you. [1] Transcendence (Amazon Blu-Ray pre-order: http://amzn.to/1hOdc4M ) [2] Lawnmower Man (Amazon: http://amzn.to/1rCOOEq , iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com …
- Computer Says No, Snow Crashing … Daemon (Amazon: http://amzn.to/QCyg3L , Powell's: http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780525951117 , Abe Books: http://www.abebooks.co.uk/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/9555111019/bd ) Freedom TM …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … Unsurprisingly, Nike haven't broken out sales numbers for the Fuelband in roughly the same way that Amazon haven't broken out sales for the Kindle Fire. - The …
- We Have Always Been At War; Our Independence Day; Spimes, Duh … maybe I should just buy a Kindle Fire and use MayDay and hold it up to the stuff I bought on Amazon and just plead at the Real …
- Why Is This So Hard; Dependency; Chief Empathy Officer … And Amazon - even Amazon - doesn't get this right. Amazon knows what mixer I've got and can't easily show me the stuff I can buy with …
- Kill Hollywood, Still; Sandwiches; Apple and Samsung, Still; A Weak Signal … its own problems with mass audience takeup. Let me put it this way: Amazon's Pilot System has yet to automagically come up with a must-see. Of …
- Yet More VR; TV is still fucked; Vox.com; Ugh … Because Hollywood hates you. [1] http://www.pvrblog.com/2014/04/amazon-fire-tv-first-impressions.html 3.0 Vox.com So Vox.com has launched and it …
- Disintermediation & Externalisation; Housing; Odds … Would Amazon test, for example, an Amazon Express option for browsing their site where they *only* show you the highest-rated, most-recommended items against your search? Because …
- Internet of Poor People; Re-introductions; Odds … a) how easy is it to upgrade to Amazon Prime from the device and b) for what's in the box, it's curious that Amazon aren't …
- Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television … There's no sign that Amazon's newly-announced FireTV does a better job, either. And Evans makes a good point: it's the content - the shows - that …
- Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds … to go into the pile of "oh god, I should be reading this". Amazon: http://amzn.to/1mIPFWd , Powell's: http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780393244663 , Wordery: https …
- Not Yet A Phyle; Ready Player One; Fantasy Acquisitions … http://www.wired.com/2012/04/an-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic/ [5] Amazon: http://amzn.to/1gGGdiP , Powell's: http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780553380965 , Abe Books …
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift … Or a writer for Buzzfeed. [1] Some of you have objected to buying things from Amazon. So I'm going to start including regular links to Powell's …
- Wearable Reckons; Mirror Neurons; More Google … You'll be excited to know that the Amazon Affiliate links have earned my son's college fund *nearly sixty cents*. So if you've been worrying about …
- When You're Part Of A Team; The Dabbler An experiment - I'm going to start using Amazon Associates links when I link to, well, things on Amazon. There are a couple of references to books in …
- IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends … they did it with the Amazon one-click patent. Why Netflix? They have the least-shit recommendation algorithm out there, and they have one that's actually used …
- On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service … and run your own server," they said - and my options were a free Amazon Micro instance for a year? No. Notwithstanding the irritation at having asymmetric bandwidth foisted …
- Everything's Made Of Blocks; How The World Works; Advances In Quantification … Manhattan which is pretty achievable for anyone with a credit card and an Amazon account these days. But it's being done in *Minecraft* - not Unreal or Unity …
- Only Connect; They Stole Our Revolution; Policy As Code; Dance Central … Walmart and Amazon certainly are succeeding in widening access to access to low-cost goods that enhance your quality of life. But the way Walmart and Amazon treat …
- This Inexplicable Future, Where Did All The Agents Go, Brittle … It is easy, as it were, for Amazon to mine the purchasing habits of millions of shoppers and to attempt to provide meaningful and serendipitous suggestions as to …
- Some Thoughts On The Illustrated Primer, Fax Your GP … Honestly, in a world where Amazon can practically give away tablets that are just about good enough, and you can tap a button and instantly be connected to …
- The Auto Show, Learning to Code and Niggling Thoughts … In contrast, my anecdata of one-comment-from-a-friend is pointing me in the suspicious direction of Amazon not really knowing what they're doing with their …
- Rate All The Things … So we have Amazon book review star ratings, of which XKCD's cartoon[1] is probably the best at explaining the problem with the five-star-rating-system …