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- Alfdog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41The only bad trend I see is the increasing number of 3rd party sellers. Give me my free super saver shipping. kthxbye
- totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Tags are worth it just for this:
http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Fire-Kevin-Federline/dp/tags-on-product/B000IU3YLY - pype, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15More likely it will help in mass adoption if 'Web 2.0' as a crappy, meaningless catchphrase.
- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Yea like holy *****.
That first comment came off like he was being paid. - ersnyder, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16Web 2.0 didn't help me get one of those XBox 360's for $100.
- Uberdork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I just upgraded my Mac to Amazon Web 2.0, and it really feels snappier.
- dcbebop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'm just waiting for the "Web 2.0 Inside!" graphics to appear everywhere. And then for intel to sue them for trademark infringement.
- wush, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I still think Amazon has one of the worst designs among big name sites. The page is scattered with so many disjointed regions of text, all in different sizes and fonts.
- JJBagoose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6My only real problem with amazon is their Amazon Prime Shipping scam.
If I am going to pay for the free shipping of products it should be all products they offer. I have ended up paying a bunch of money in shipping because they are only the middle man and not the real seller of a product. PRIME SHOULD INCLUDE ALL ITEMS!!!!! - ..eD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think Amazon is loosing their focus a bit. I think the reviews are cool but the tags, plogs, wikis are just cluttering the page. Plus, if I want a web site that showed me three different vendors that want to sell me something, then I would go to Yahoo shopping or shopping.com. I go to a single site to by multiple items to save on shipping. Amazon, if you are going to show me items from different vendors, then how about analyzing my shopping cart contents and suggest a different combination of vendors that would save me on shipping.
One time I searched for an item on Amazon, found what I thought was the best deal, checked out and there on the "thanks for shopping page" was a suggested bundle containing the item I just bought. The bundle was a good deal and I would have bought the bundle had I known about it in the first place.
I say quit worrying about fancy web 2.0 crap and focus on providing me with the best shopping experience. - Crosshare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@qwickone
My favorite review of the bunch...
Virtual Scarecrow, November 1, 2006
Reviewer: A fan from the beginning "Dan" (Fargo, ND United States) - See all my reviews
The neighborhood kids have been using my backyard as a place to do whatever kids today do when no one is watching. I got tired of of them trampling my garden and leaving trash. I took an old pair of wireless speakers from the "future garage sale" pile and put them 15 feet up in a nicely trimmed pine tree (no way to climb it).
After some advice from my kids in college, I bought this album. Amazing! Nothing, and I mean nothing, makes the kids scatter faster than Kevin Federline! - qwickone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2read some on the comments on it. I organized by most helpful. Hysterical!
- VeganBob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@dcbebop
Ask and you shall receive:
http://www.veganbob.com/photos/web2.0-inside.jpg
/bored - 0firefly0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Holy crap... someone should seriously submit that page as a digg story.
- qwickone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Profits are not alwasy related to stock price. Remember when amazon started and their stock price went up every single quarter as they reported record losses?? Stock price is purely a perception thing. When people finally take notice, that's when the stock price will go up. then again, no one might ever notice.
- joenewbreed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My favorites are "AKA Vogon Poetry" and "Hopi Indian"
- spartanfox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I give props to Amazon for the strides they've made adopting "Web 2.0" technologies. The fact users can label a Kevin Federline album as "laughable" (see totorototoro's comment) is a good symbol of user interaction that most major sites should strive for.
But, the end of the article talks about why these advances haven't affected their stock price. I think it just has to do with the fact that eye candy does not equal profit. Maybe in the long term it does, but not immediately. Unless they make money as a result of the 2.0 stuff, the stock price won't go up anytime soon. - Kur0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Amazon.co.UK still looks like crap compared to .com...diod they forget about the UK or something?
- se7en11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tags? Check out the user-submitted images on that product --> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/B000IU3YLY/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_2/102-2723367-0014541?ie=UTF8&s=music&index=2#gallery
What's even more frightening is 6 out of 7 people found it helpful... - jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To give people an Idea of what people have tagged that album with one of the tags (used twice already) is "makes baby jesus cry".
- rsshilli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The only thing they're missing now is that this new technology called "usability".
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Amazon makes it a pain in the ass to search for "Super Saver" products. It is annoying to find the product you're looking for, only to find out it is being sold by some no-name third party. There are now better places to buy almost every category of product that they have. All the innovation and price-cutting is in specialty stores now. Amazon has just felt stagnant for a long time now.
- hookem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0odd that the article doesn't mention Amazon's newest site (ONLY Amazon products and FREE next day shipping). Pretty slick site, all Ajax driven: www.endless.com (and your amazon login works since it's an amazon owned company).
- asnow, on 12/05/2007, -0/+0I think it is great that Amazon is evolving in the Web 2.0 wave. Change can bring growth and failure. The stock price will move in the future according to what this change brings. Give it time.
- jbond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too right. This happens way too often where the UK or EU version of the site is permanently out of date compared with the US version. Then there's the US location based startups that don't appear to believe that the rest of the world exists.
- theotherlight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Off topic, and I expect to get dugg down, but I am henceforth marking every digg article I see with the phrase "web 2.0" in the title or description as "lame". I hope you are willing to follow along.
Thanks. - jbond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wish Amazon would have a few more RSS/Atom feeds. There's a lot of information on the site that really doesn't need a custom API and XML schema, it just needs plain old RSS.
- dcbebop, on 10/12/2007, -10/+8Kiss some more ass fanboy, please, kiss some more ass. Wait, is this Jeff Bezos?
- Nozavroni, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2I dugg pype's comment... web 2.0 has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. There are no "versions" of the internet. I work at a marketing company, so I have to sit and listen to web 2.0 this and that all day long... lame!
- Nailhead, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1"Web 2.0" is for noobs. Where's "Web 3.0"?
- ThePDW, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Web 2.0 = more crap for me to wade through.
- sysadmin88, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0whats with this Web 2.0 B.S.???
- ALoserIsYou, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Sexy.
- aroundtheblock, on 11/06/2008, -26/+20Amazon is truly the premier store for online shopping. They have a wealth of customer reviews, pictures, detailed specifications, shipping types and specials, and the price is right too! They are great. I did the vast majority of my holiday shopping last year sitting on my ass at Amazon.com!
- antigoogle, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1This will definitely help in mass adoption of web 2.0
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