what was that speculative video from a few years back that imagined google merging with amazon "to become googlezon, the indisputable leader in delivering your world."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 September 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT9ho2G0N_Y
p sure googlzon was defeated by the japanese navy some years back
― hipstery nayme (darraghmac), Friday, 9 September 2011 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 9 September 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
For instance, imagine an analog to Amazon’s self-publishing services: Why not make an independent movie or television show and release it through Amazon?
ooh, let's see, maybe bc writing something costs c. nothing, making a movie "a shit tonne"? idk, spitballing
i mean sure '- a guy who hasn't embraced web 2.0'. but honestly.
― a hurrrr hurrrr (history mayne), Friday, 9 September 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
have you heard of "the youtube"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 9 September 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
Amphibology is a Barthesism, n'est-ce pas?
― Stevie T, Friday, 9 September 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
Wrong thread :(
have i heard of it? dogg i spend 5-10 hours a day watching all the amazing user-generated content that users generate and put on youtube. it is an absolute goldmine for original art filmmaking. if hans richter or michael snow were getting started today... not to speak of all the many great actors and dramatists who got their first breaks on youtube.
xpost
― a hurrrr hurrrr (history mayne), Friday, 9 September 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
sooooo why not make some amazing user generated content and sell it through amazon, upping yr sales through their recommendation algorithims rather than keeping your fingers crossed and hoping on "related videos" clickthroughs and whatever social media intern you've got on promo?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 9 September 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
read that post as 100% sarcasm tbh
― hipstery nayme (darraghmac), Friday, 9 September 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
ha i didn't even read all the way to the end tbh
^ endemic of the youtube culture
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 9 September 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
but seriously--there are plenty of people doing interesting orig work on yt, and i suspect they'd be interested in a legit revenue model. there are whole networks out there like indy mogul or impressive standalone shorts like fede alvarez's 'panic attack' that, if given a push, could produce even more impressive things.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 9 September 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
i may be 100% wrong tbh
^ also the youtube culture thing etc
― hipstery nayme (darraghmac), Friday, 9 September 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
not to speak of all the many great actors and dramatists who got their first breaks on youtube.
p claro imo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 9 September 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
what's the advantage of filmmakers going through amazon versus doing stuff like this?
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2010/10/open-five.html
http://www.nobudgefilms.com/
― Mr. Que, Friday, 9 September 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
This page seems to be somewhat hidden (in Canada at least) so I'm throwing it up here
Free ebooks collectionhttp://www.amazon.com/b?node=2245146011
Includes the kindle daily deal on the top left.
― anorange (abanana), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
Also I have found mobileread.com to be a good source of free ebooks.
― anorange (abanana), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
just DL'd 'american book of the dead' free on amazon and lovin it so far
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
I have one of these now! And have thrown my collection of OCR'd PDFs onto it, which I now realise I should probably organise better (e.g. why indeed I want to read 2499371 tonight). I do have a question though: one of the PDFs I tried to view has the bottom line on each page obscured by the page number bar - is there anything I can do about this? Besides changing the zoom, which is a bit of a pain because it means I have to move lots to get around the page. I couldn't find anything looking it up, and I appreciate that perhaps DIY-scanned and uploaded PDFs aren't necessarily going to be compatible, but I'd quite like a fix.
― known for melding an outrageous stage presence with tenacious hooks (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
what's an OCR'd PDF? i run my pdf's through calibre and they generally come out completely readable. good for converting other formats into kindle friendly, iphone friendly etc formats
― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:39 (twelve years ago) link
anyone else quite regularly notice spelling mistakes in the ebooks they download on the kindle? or is it just me reading trashy books
― seasoning sauce all over me (tpp), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 08:27 (twelve years ago) link
quite a few ocr issues (i.e. once every few pages) in the ONE BILLION BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU DIE t0rr3nt i found.
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 08:30 (twelve years ago) link
what's up
http://www.kindlepost.com/2011/09/kindle-books-now-available-at-local-libraries.html
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
tpp anything i've d/l'd legit has had errors and words bre aki ng up li ke th is but anything i've ahem acquired or that was free has been ok
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
Just checked out some kindle books from the Seattle library. Easiest if your Kindle has wifi; mine's 3g only so have to copy the files via usb. Still an easy process.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
You can get them from the NYPL too. Books were in a weird grayed out limbo when I tried to download over 3G until I realized about the WiFi. So a need for Wifi or USB but no need for http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/libraryken.jpg
― When I Stop Meming (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 September 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
because i'm a nerd, i'm watching a livestream of the kindle announcement today. so far they've announced a $99 kindle touch - basically the e-ink kindle with a touchscreen to turn pages, etc.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
$99 for wi-fi, $149 for 3G
or $79 for a new smaller, lighter, non-touchscreen kindle
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
79 is the right price, bare bones the right features. Don't need the other crap. Bought.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
i think it's a smart move and they're going to sell a billion of them but i don't really see anything to inspire me to trade up from my kindle 3
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
don't care about touchscreen, don't really feel like the kindle 3 is unwieldy or heavy, only reason i might upgrade is if the e-ink display is significantly clearer/darker
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, September 28, 2011 2:24 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
the new Portable Cash Register, from amazon
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
announcing the kindle fire tablet now, looks tiny (like kindle-sized)
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
with their own browser too!
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
"Kindle FIre's Silk browser will do part of the work on the tablet itself, and farm the rest out to cloud computing"
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
phwoah
Silk learns your behavior patterns and pre-loads pages. Read the NY Times frequently? Silk will load the Biz section ahead of time.
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
$199 - suck it, Apple
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
amazon seems like the only company serious abt competing w/apple tabletwise
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
in that theyre doing their own thing not just putting out shitty ipad knockoffs no one will ever buy
hardware wise a lotta this was bought up from RIM iirc tho, which is why a lotta ppl were like "meh" before specifics came out
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
well its all abt the specifics isnt it
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
i don't really care about tablets so much but this seems really small? i guess that would be nice for commuters but if i'm mainly going to use it at home the ipad still seems way nicer.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
ipad is def nicer/more versatile, also costs 2.5x
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
can def see fire 3G down the way and maybe some kinda fire deluxe that's closer to the ipad in size & feature set on the horizon tho
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
feel like prob the most interesting thing abt this is on the app sales end, amazon is a company who knows how to sell things on the internet unlike google rim et al their app store w/prob be the first real competitor to apple
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
It's a Blackberry Playbook underneath, but what really sells it is the Amazon cloud backend. If they come out with a larger iPad sized model, it'll be the first serious competitor to Apple's tablet.
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait to get groceries through my fire
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link