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A Chat with Ben and Pete – Episode 5

Published on November 25, 2007 in podcast. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

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Kindle and the Australian Election.

We chat about the Amazon Kindle, book readers and browsers on book readers, as well as what the Australian election result means for broadband in Australia. Pete has discovered the Google developer podcast and a new kind of airport wifi.

Interesting links talked about in the show:

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Read Tolstoy, Find Russian Women

Published on November 19, 2007 in web 2.0. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

I’m reading the excellent take on Amazon’s Kindle by Steven Levy in Newsweek. The article talks about Google book search and I decide to check it out again (an excellent resource by the way). The first thing I search for, as always, is War and Peace. The entire book is available but the first thing I notice is the advertising at the bottom of the page, as shown below.

Ads in War and Peace

The article mentions ad sponsored books. Well I’m not sure whether this kind of “targeted” advertising is what I had in mind when I searched for Tolstoy!