The 2009 holiday toy season is kicking into full gear, and no toy is hotter this year than Zhu Zhu Pets.
Zhu Zhu Pets are revolutionary new “pets” that don’t require any parental supervision.
They are essentially battery-operated hamsters that zip around in play sets at will. Their movements are incredibly like-like.
As we wrote here in [...]

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Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger got right back up on that horse.
The heroic captain of ill-fated flight 1549, a flight that ended up making a dramatic emergency landing in the Hudson River earlier this year, climbed back into the pilot’s chair on Thursday morning.  This is his first commercial flight since the Hudson River incident.
“Ladies and gentlemen, [...]

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It’s that time of year again…time for ghouls, goblins and things that go bump in the night.
Here at Blippitt, if you’re looking for Halloween costume ideas for 2009, we’ve got you covered.  We’ve got costumes for babies, guys, girls, even Halloween costume ideas for couples and families!
So let the little kid in you come out [...]

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Now is the perfect time to build up your Blu-ray collection.
From August 11 through August 21, 2009, if you buy 2 Amazon Blu-ray discs from the sale selection you get one extra Blu-ray disc for free…while supplies last.
Don’t wait, go there now…
Amazon Blu-ray Sale
Amazon is also offering up to 60 percent off select DVDs [...]

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Amazon continues to drop certain states as affiliate tax legislation is passed in each.  It has now officially dumped its North Carolina affiliate program, or “Associates Program”.
North Carolina has ensured that everyone loses in this transaction.  The state is prepared to pass a law requiring online companies to collect sales taxes if they have affiliate [...]

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After what must have been an embarrassing weekend for the online retail giant, Amazon has taken responsibility for its giant flub, referring to the removal of “adult-themed” gay and lesbian books as “an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error.”
Amazon denies that gay and lesbian materials were singled out, saying that “57,310 books in a number of [...]

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According to Amazon, a “glitch” in their system has caused the mass banning of several gay and lesbian oriented products on the basis that they are “adult oriented” even though they are not.  In many cases, the products are still available, but their search ranking has been totally removed so that when people search for [...]

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Amazon’s web statistics tool Alexa has gotten a huge facelift, with a new look and a variety of new stats.
The Alexa search engine is now gone.  In its place, Alexa now focuses on monitoring sites that are discussing a particular topic.
The change is pretty drastic.  I almost thought I was on the wrong site when [...]

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The job losses continue to mount as the economy trudges on.
Yesterday, layoffs were announced by IBM, Google, Amazon and The New York Times. IBM has the highest tally with 5,000 people losing their jobs. Amazon cut 210 employees at distribution centers in Nevada, Indiana, and Pennsylvania.
Google is also letting about 200 people go from sales [...]

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If you’re an Amazon Associate, your life just got a whole lot easier.
Amazon has announced that they have made the following changes to their widget creation system:
1. You can search for widgets by size
2. You can Select a predefined IAB (Internet Advertising Bureau) size OR just create a custom widget for My Favorites and Search.
Also, [...]

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