Entries Tagged ‘Amazon’

Death of a Medium

Imagine yourself reading a book.  Imagine the feel of the paper in your hands, the ease with which you turn the page, the thrill of wondering what comes next. Now imagine yourself reading a newspaper.  Imagine the paper as it resists your every attempt to keep it straight, the woman next to you on the [...]

Big Brother

Amazon just went nuclear on the public API front, making over a terrabyte worth of information available to developers through a searchable API rivaling Google. Everything from US census information and labour statistics to the entire English section of Wikipedia in machine readable format.