For those of you that have been waiting for the Amazon to start shipping Kindles again, now is the time. I have to admit, I haven’t been using mine much lately, but it is still a pretty slick piece of technology and a sign of things to come.
Link to Kindle page at Amazon here.
Amazon is adding fulfillment to its impressive list of web services. Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, SimpleDB and Simple Storage Service are the back-end behind a large number of young lean Internet startups. While Amazon's original web service are targeted toward those building web applications, the fulfillment API, and Amazon's fulfillment service, have broad application to retail businesses generally. Outsourcing warehousing, shipping and handling take one more burden off of small businesses allowing them to focus on more important things.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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