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Amazon

Welcome to Techiiies.TV

April 19, 2009

I started Techiiies.tv as a fun project, and I’m pretty confident that YouTube would run out of storage space before I run out of ideas for creating techiiie videos.
Oh, and by the way, if you’re wondering about the weird spelling of Techiiies, it was of course because the name “Techies” (with the single “i”) wasn’t [...]

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No More Amazon Commissions For Paid Traffic

April 6, 2009

Here’s the email I received earlier today, notifying me of the change to Amazon’s Affiliate Commissions policies. Relevant portion is highlighted below.
We’re writing to let you know about a change to the Amazon Associates Program. After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to no longer pay [...]

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How To Quickly & Easily Publish Business Videos

April 2, 2009

I use Amazon S3 to host my business videos.
S3 offers incredible performance, unlimited storage, and is extremely affordable. Another Purple Cow from Amazon.
Plus it looks a lot more professional than hosting your business videos on a crowded social video site with user generated videos and ads surrounding it.

Amazon S3 for video hosting.
Camtasia / Jing [...]

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My Book on Amazon

March 3, 2009

Amazon currently has 17,338,442 books available for sale.
Of those 17 million, my book is currently ranked at 20,969. Which means my book is ranked at 0.1% of all books on Amazon.
0.1% means high up among the top 1% of all books.
These numbers mean not much more than a pat on the back. And maybe some [...]

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Garr Reynolds and Presentation Zen

September 28, 2008

Uncanny!
I got “Presentation Zen” delivered in the mail last night from Amazon.
And someone tweeted this Garr Reynolds video of “Authors at Google”…

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Amazon Kindle: Not kindling my passion for, er, anything

December 12, 2007

The folks who buy a new product when it first comes out, are commonly known as the early adopters.
These people – who are not the same as the “beta testers” – actually spend money to buy the product.
They risk the annoyances, technical and usability issues of First-Generation products in exchange for the “Wow” factor [...]

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