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		<title>Can Amazon.com&#8217;s Jeff Bezos Fix Twitter&#8217;s Scalability Problem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like Twitter got a new round of funding today, and you may be thinking &#8220;so what?&#8221;  I&#8217;m interested because one of the new investors is Amazon.com&#8217;s Jeff Bezos who as Read Write Web put it, is &#8220;Mr. Scalability.&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" style="border: 0pt none; margin: 5px; float: left;" src="http://ckwebb.com/images/bezos.jpg" alt="Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos" width="200" height="204" />Looks like Twitter got a <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2008/06/welcoming-bijan-and-jeff.html">new round of funding today</a>, and you may be thinking &#8220;so what?&#8221;  I&#8217;m interested because one of the new investors is Amazon.com&#8217;s Jeff Bezos who as <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazons_bezos_invests_in_twitt.php">Read Write Web put it</a>, is &#8220;Mr. Scalability.&#8221;</p>
<p>It seems that Bezos keeps his investing activities separate from the business of Amazon.com, so I don&#8217;t think we will see an influx of Amazon.com applications leveraging Twitter soon, but I wonder if AWS is not a viable platform for Twitter.</p>
<p>They already use S3 for serving up avatars, so I wonder if moving to EC2 and related services might be part of the plan?</p>
<p><strong>What do you think? </strong> is this just a new round of funding for Twitter and Jeff Bezos just happens to be in the mix, or is this the start of something bigger for Twitter?</p>
<p>(Photo credit <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/92366800@N00/6629223">ETech</a>)</p>
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		<title>Amazon.com as a Social Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joshua Porter over at UIE Brain Sparks has a great post about Amazon.com as a social network.  His examination of the product page for iPod found no less than 16 social features including user reviews, tell a friend, share images and many others.
But even though big sites adding many social features at a time draws [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.ckwebb.com/images/amazon.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="62" hspace="10" vspace="10" width="150" />Joshua Porter over at UIE Brain Sparks has a <a href="http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2007/03/05/amazoncoms-social-design/">great post</a> about Amazon.com as a social network.  His examination of the product page for iPod found no less than 16 social features including user reviews, tell a friend, share images and many others.</p>
<blockquote><p>But even though big sites adding many social features at a time draws lots of attention, there is one site that is way ahead of everyone else, offering a myriad of social features that eclipses the field, hands down. That site is Amazon.com.</p></blockquote>
<p>As <span class="entry-author-name"><a href="http://www.brianoberkirch.com/2007/04/23/amazon-should-get-more-props/">Brian Oberkirch points out</a>, if you factor the social networking features with the awesomeness that is Amazon Web Services, S3, and their affiliate programs, </span>Amazon should really be stealing the all the press from Google and Yahoo!</p>
<p>For authors, the rich social features at Amazon.com are perfect for getting the word out about your book, and you really need to be a part of the conversation.  Check out my earlier posting on <a href="http://www.ckwebb.com/books/crowdhacking-10-simple-ways-authors-can-help-to-increase-sales-at-amazoncom/">10 Simple Ways Authors Can Increase Sales at Amazon.com</a>, and get in there and be&#8230; social.</p>
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