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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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If you are an Amazon Associate, you should be checking their website every day. Why?  Because every day they run an awesome deal called the Amazon Gold Box.  As you saw yesterday, I use Amazon here and there and am doing pretty well with it. The Gold Box offers a special discount on one product, [...]

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One of Amazon UK’s largest warehousing and fulfilment suppliers has lost its lease. Bookbarn lost its lease on its Bristol warehouse, so they opened their doors and invited the public in to come and swipe all of publishers’ consigned books they had on hand. Most people came prepared with crates and boxes to cart away [...]

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