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Site launches to help hunt Amazon’s free ebooks

by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Site launches to help hunt Amazon’s free ebooks
By David Cornish, wired.co.uk

Business

There’s a ubiq­ui­tous smug­ness that appears to accom­pa­ny the pur­chase of an eread­er. It’s not in the box, nor is it down­loaded as an option­al extra — but a quick glance at the expres­sion of an eread­ing com­muter beside their…

RT @WiredUK: Site launches to help hunt Amazon’s free ebooks http://flip.it/A1tSc by @d_cornish http://flip.it/HkB93

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The Amazon will message authorities when loggers strike

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

The Amazon will message authorities when loggers strike
By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk

Technology

Brazil­ian author­i­ties hope to com­bat defor­esta­tion in the Ama­zon by fit­ting trees with wire­less loca­tion devices that send out alerts if their host tree is cut down.

Invis­i­ble Trac­ck is a device about the size of a…

RT @WiredUK: The Amazon will message authorities when loggers strike: http://flip.it/gHXl1 by @liatclark http://flip.it/7gcpJ

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Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science
English: Timothy Ferriss speaks at Google, May...
English: Timothy Ferriss speaks at Google, May 2007. Photo by Devin Murphy. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By DAVID STREITFELD, nytimes.com

Tim Fer­riss’ “4-Hour Chef” is the first big book to be pub­lished by Ama­zon. With the tra­di­tion­al book­selling out­lets unwill­ing to stock or pub­li­cize the title, pub­lish­er and author are pulling out all the stops to move copies and show…

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Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing

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