Chapter 7, Part 1 – E-Commerce And the Birth of Amazon.com
Summary: Finally, the long-promised foray into e-commerce, starting with… not the first… but practically the first… player in the space… and ironically enough, the 800 …
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December 1, 2014 Chapter 4, Supplemental 8 – Danny Sullivan Talks Search Engine History and the Future of Search
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November 23, 2014 Did Al Gore Really Invent The Internet?
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November 17, 2014 Chapter 4, Supplemental 7 – Excite CEO George Bell
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November 9, 2014 Leader of the Internet Explorer Project, Ben Slivka
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November 3, 2014 Chapter 5, Supplemental 9 – CNET Founder Halsey Minor
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Chapter 7, Supplemental 3 – Catalog Manager Glenn Fleishman Discusses Amazon’s Early Days
Summary: You may know Glenn Fleishman from a bunch of things. He has written for Wired, Fortune, Popular Science, The New York Times, and PCWorld, …
Amazon’s Office Layout Circa 1996?
Here’s a fun little nugget. It’s from Erica Jorgensen, who was the Health Books editor at Amazon. This is a neat tie-in to recent …
Requiem For Radio Shack
So, RadioShack is dead, huh? You might say, who cares? Probably little better (different?) than a Sprint store anyway, right? Before there were hackers who …
Amazon’s Technical Co-Founder and Employee #1, Shel Kaphan
Summary: Shel Kaphan was the very first person hired by Jeff Bezos to launch Amazon.com. A lot of people consider Shel to be a co-founder …
Chapter 4, Supplemental 9 – Lycos Founder and CEO Bob Davis
Summary: Bob Davis was not only the founder of the search engine/web portal known as Lycos, he was also the CEO, first employee, and for …
Chapter 7, Supplemental 1 – Amazon Director, Customer Service Strategy, Jane Slade
Summary: Jane Slade joined Amazon.com’s nascent customer service team when it was a couple of people, some computers, and one phone line. Over the coming …
Analysis Episode 3 – Amazon and Ecommerce With Christina Warren
Summary: Christina Warren is the Senior Tech Analyst for Mashable.com. She came on the podcast to talk with me about Amazon’s place in the tech universe, …
The Change In Marketshare For Game Platforms Going Back To 1971
No real reason to post this. Just thought it was cool. Click to enlarge. Found it here.
Chapter 6 – A History of Internet Porn
This is the transcript of a podcast episode. To listen to the episode in its entirety, click here: “Without porn and Star Trek, there would …