A nice historical retelling of the Amazon and Ebay stores and their relative successes and failures.

Things to know about selling wine.

An Atlantic Monthly correspondent visits Seattle using only community-driven web content as his guide.

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Connected internet devices haven't been terribly successful. These guys have a cute device, serious funding, and a collection of useful widgets. We'll see if it works.

A really funny interview with George Clooney where he is walked through what the internets have to say about him...

Quoted: We find out what happens when George Clooney Googles George Clooney. And when A.J. Jacobs shows him 2 Girls 1 Cup.

Speculation on where Amazon might take the Kindle platform development next... MUSIC! A device with wireless subscription access to all music would be great!

Quoted: 1. Make its MP3 store global. 2. Make a WWAN-equipped MP3 player hooked into the music store, a la Kindle. 3. Profit. Profit like God-damned crazy.

Because I'm running a Mac Extreme network which allows for some non-standard configurations, I have to switch it up before my OLPC will work on the network...

Quoted: Columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid.