Wednesday, February 12, 2003

The New Post-Amazon Bookstore - Andrew Sullivan's Book Club. This link will take you to Andrew Sullivan's Book Club. I wonder if this is the new post Amazon bookstore? Here is why I think this. Andrew enables us book nuts to have a club to talk about the books we like. He therefore extends the powerful reader review part of the Amazon site and creates a deeper community. If you buy the book from him linked to Amazon, he gets 15% but you don't pay any more. So Andrew becomes a power store for Amazon. Good for Andrew good for Jeff Bezos and good for me the reader who wants to participate in an informed forum. Andrew and Amazon make the book purchase very easy thus he and the reader piggy back on Amazon's system and logistics. He is a book store that has all the power of Amazon behind it and they pay him! Remember how long it took to get that copy and how much it cost from you friendly local bookseller? Let's go a bit deeper. Andrew's site is also like a book club. General Book clubs are OK for their owners but specialty book clubs - Military, Cooking etc - are exceptionally attractive. Lower overall volume but much more per member. Military buffs buy all the good books. This takes George Dafermos's ideas of the power of collaborative filtering to the next level as well. Maybe if Amazon is then a general book club - we can all then set up our own or join specialty clubs. Andrews is maybe too general right now. Anyone going to open a military club? Maybe I should? [Robert Paterson's Radio Weblog] 8:06:09 PM     Idea to pass along to the single women I know.  Who'd 've thunk... ================= Boyfriend Recommendation System. DOLLS! We all have charming male friends . . . smart, noble, successful, honest, good-looking guys who're between girlfriends . . . or who're just a tad shy . . . or who've had bad luck with women. Here's the open-hearted place where we women can write-up recommendations of these wonderful fellows, show their pictures and vouch for them. And here's the delicious part. If you want to FIND a great boyfriend, Darling, you have all these lovely men to choose from. [Smart Mobs] 6:52:39 PM     "Match" -- Wireless, Location-Based Dating Service. Match Mobile, a new service to be launched on Wednesday by Match.com and AT&T Wireless, provides dating and matching for AT&T Wireless customers via their mobile phones. "Wireless will be a hugely important technology for the future for our industry, which is to connect people for the purpose of dating," said Tim Sullivan, president of Match.com, a unit of USA Interactive and the biggest online dating site in the United States. Sullivan said one of the benefits of going mobile for Match is that the new service will have the ability to pair members based on location. Initially, matches will be made based on ZIP codes, but in coming months the service will be enhanced with technology so people can locate matches within an approximate geographical location by using their wireless phones. The search engine will never reveal actual physical locations, but simply allow customers to chat only with matches within a specified radius. [Smart Mobs] 6:40:54 PM

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