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Quoted: Amazon.com just started shipping Kindle 2, the new version of its electronic book reader. Now it's making another bold move in the market. The online retailer has started selling e-books on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch.

New API could be used to find more targetted products to sell based on your site content, or user's interests.

Quoted: The Product Advertising API provides programmatic access to Amazon’s product selection and discovery functionality so that developers like you can advertise Amazon products to monetize your website.

Another hidden Amazon feature (at least, I've never heard of it). Amazon has "meters" which are selected by their editors. They show the relative sales strength between 2 or more product selections.

Seriously?

Quoted: Amazon.com: Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?: Tom O'Connor, Jill Dubin: Books

Amazon needs to hire a better designer!

Quoted: Yes, people. You’re looking at the first shots of Amazon’s Kindle 2. The follow-up to their popular e-book reader. Our ninja sent us a ton ...

Amazon Video Streaming just launched in public beta but the seats are limited :)

Quoted: Starting later this Fall, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Today, you can choose from a variety of Unix-based operating systems, and soon you will be able to configure your instances to run the Windows Server operating system. In addition, you will be able to use SQL Server as another option within Amazon EC2 for running relational databases.

AWS is adding Windows support "this fall". The pricing for EC2 instances will reflect the delta for the windows license.

Quoted: Amazon Web Services, Products, Tools, and Developer Information...