May 2006 Archives
Another great new store launched today: Amazon.com Grocery
An Amazon store filled non-perishable grocery items all eligible for Prime and Super Saver Shipping.
An important new feature was launched alongside of it: Shopping Lists. This is like a wish list but you can use it for repeat purchases, different quantities and more.
Dewitt rates it as the coolest store of the year, but I think the Scientific & Industrial store launched last week is definitely the main competition for that honor.
tags: AMZN, Amazon.com inc, Amazon Grocery, Grocery, Shopping List
All you Make junkies, go visit Amazon Industrial & Scientifc (beta)!
Earlier this year my good friend and mentor Jim Gray dropped by at Amazon to interview me for ACM Queue magazine. I had real fun with Jim’s questions and I like to believe that the resulting interview is interesting. It appeared in this month’s edition and runs about 8 pages in the print edition.
It interview touches on many different topics around the Amazon Platform and I believe that there is quite a bit of information in the article that has never been publicized before. We get into Amazon’s technology history, scalability of services, the service architecture, large scale testing, large scale development, the retail and enterprise partner platforms, hiring, the relationship with academia, and many more.
- One more day: Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam
(5/2)
- One more week: Neil Young – Living with War (Free Streaming of the Full Album) (5/8)
- One more week: Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium (DVD Edition) (5/9)
- Two more weeks: Hoobastank – Every Man For Himself (5/16)
- Two more weeks: John Entwistle – Bass Guitar Master Class (5/16)
- Three weeks: Ridley Scott – Kingdom of Heaven - Directors Cut (5/23)
- One more month: Soccer World Cup (5/9 - 6/9)
