Amazon.com buys Audible; March into digital content distribution continues  —  Amazon.com’s march into digital distribution of content continues-this time with plans to acquire Audible for $300 million.  —  In a statement on Thursday, Amazon said it will acquire Audible …

Source:   Between the Lines
Author:   Larry Dignan
Link:   http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7818

Cell phone directory rings alarm bells  —  An online directory that claims to provide 90 million mobile telephone numbers is raising concerns among cell phone users and privacy advocates about unwanted callers who rack up the minutes on their calling plans and the difficulty of opting out of the list.

Source:   MSNBC
Author:   Alex Johnson
Link: […]

Taking Twitter Seriously  —  Twitter can be easily dismissed as IM-Lite or a tool for people with short attention spans but, interestingly enough, it is also starting to gain traction as a serious communications tool for people to communicate about serious stuff…like politics.

Source:   Mark Evans
Author:   Mark Evans
Link:   http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/30/taking…

Instapaper, A Beautifully Simple Bookmarking Tool  —  Instapaper, a new site by Tumblr employee Marco Arment, simply put will easily be one of the websites I visit most this year.  It may very well be the easiest and most beautifully minimal bookmarking site ever created.

Source:   ParisLemon
Author:   MG Siegler
Link:   http://www.parislemon.com/2008/01/instapaper-most…

Amazon Earnings Call Details: Web Services Use Up More Bandwidth Than Amazon.com; The Kindle is a Hit  —  Amazon earnings just came out.  The company had a strong fourth quarter, with revenues up 42 percent to $5.7 billion, net income doubling to $207 million, and free cash flow doubling as well to $1.4 billion.

Source:   […]

Rating Burner Debuts With RSS Feed Ranking, Growth Stats  —  There’s precious little that bloggers like to do more than measure their own statistics, and gauge how they’re doing, relative to the rest of the blogging community.  And there’s similarly precious little that smart Web developers …

Source:   louisgray.com
Author:   Louisgray
Link:   http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/01/rating-burner…

Amazon Web Services: Bigger Than Amazon  —  Web retailer Amazon announced their fourth quarter earnings today and included some interesting figures on the state of their distributed computing products.  Namely, web services bandwidth now accounts for more bandwidth than all of Amazon’s global web sites combined.

Source:   ReadWriteWeb
Author:   Josh Catone
Link:   http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives…

Fresh from New York: Trends in online advertising  —  Silicon Alley technologists and Madison Avenue advertising executives have been meeting yesterday and today at the AlwaysOn OnMedia NYC conference.  Here are some of the trends people were talking about:

Source:   VentureBeat
Author:   Julie Ruvolo
Link:   http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/30/state-of-the-ad…

Microsoft doesn’t recommend creating Vista ‘Lite’  —  Frustrated with Vista’s sluggishness, some people have been turning to a utility called vLite, that strips out components of the operating system deemed unessential.  —  Although the move does offer frustrated Vista users an option …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Ina Fried
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9861474-56.html

Garmin announces the nuvifone  —  That’s right folks — Garmin has just announced its new iPhone-like smartphone, the nüvifone.  The device features full browsing, PIM, phone and of course, GPS functions.  It’s an HSDPA, quad-band phone, also equipped with WiFi, Bluetooth …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Joshua Topolsky
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/30/garmin-announces…