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Many gay and lesbian books on Amazon.com were incorrectly being flagged as adult due to a cataloging error which made the books hard to find in searches.
Twitters got angry about the issue and started a discussion called #AmazonFail. Thousands of people were angry that gay-themed books had disappeared from Amazon’s sales rankings and search algorithms. The number of Tweets on that easter sunday afternoon that had the term “AmazonFail” surpassed even those with the words “Easter” or “Jesus.”
This led Amazon.com to quickly fix the cataloging error.
Read more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/technology/internet/14amazon.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes
http://blog.seattlepi.com/amazon/archives/166384.asp?from=blog_last3
Read the discussion here:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23AmazonFail
Poken is a hardware device that connects the web 2.0 social networking virtual world to your real world contacts and people you meet in conferences, coffee shops and elsewhere.
How does it work and when was it released?
It was released in March as far as I could tell. Here is how it works
Here are more links on it:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5987575.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/mar/17/sxswi-startups1
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/dan_monsieurle/blog/2009/03/30/who_am_i__a_panda_or_a_chimp
If you want to buy a poken, then use the following coupon code for a 10% discount:
PUTUPYPAJFAZTSD3PEHM
Watch the 46 minute long Google TechTalk about Poken here:
http://www.pokenpokes.com/2009/03/08/poken-extending-online-social-networking-into-the-real-world/
The hardware details are here:
http://ameblo.jp/hfo/entry-10224130228.html
and here:
http://ameblo.jp/hfo/theme-10011686327.html
A blog about pokens:
http://www.pokenpokes.com/
Blog post about the release in Japan:
http://nthambazale.com/2009/03/tokyo-cgm-night-episode-poken-launched-in-japan/
Let me know if you have any questions about Pokens 
An interesting article about pedophilia and ’sexting’ in the mobile age. Sexting means sending nude or semi-nude pictures of oneself on mobile phones to others. Two cases are discussed in the article.
In my opinion, lawmakers should consider the changes in technology and evolve the laws to deal with the new issues emerging from the proliferation of cell phones in our societies and changes to the ways mobile phones are used.
A guy at the US Airways crash took a picture of the Airplane and used Twitter to stream it to the Internet. Here is his account of the incident:
http://twitpic.com/135xa - There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy. 12:36 PM Jan 15th from TwitPic
Robert Scoble aka Mr. Twitter talk to Larry Magid at CES. Robert has 48,000 people who follow him (read his Twitter posts which are called “tweets”) but he follows nearly 21,000 people. How he does that? Tweetdecks is one way! They also talk about the Palm Pre Surprise. Listen to the whole podcast here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10141183-238.html
This is starting to be like citizen reporting via tweets again. This time it has help from tweet decks. Can this be the beggining of a new way for us to get news from the inside of conflicts, disaster areas and maybe even anonymous news tips? Rumors?
The video is Long (32 Minutes!).
- It starts with a parody song (as usual!).
- 3:35 Trends for 2009
- 4:30 VoIP cell phones
- 6:40 VoIP on Mobile Phones with T-Mobile (By the way BT has it too!)
- 10:40 Grand Central: A service that rings all your phone numbers at once at the same time on a single number! Watch the demo
- 12:50 Google Cellular: Free SMS and Voice initiated 411 directory enquiry service
- 16:25 1800 Cha Cha: Ask any question by voice and get answer by text
- 18:00 Voice Messagase by email or SMS services e.g. spinvox, PhoneTag and CallWave
- 21:00 More on Callwave and a feature demo
- 22:35 Popularity Dialer .com
- 23:50 iPhone beginings. How iPhone changed US carriers
- 25:00 iPhone with internet all the time
- 26:30 iPhone shuffle and App Store apps demos like: Midomi, Pandora, Urban Spoon
- 28:30 T-Mobile G1 and Verizon
- 29:30 End with a Song: The iPhone Song
A man in the United States used his mobile phone and the social networking service Twitter to inform the world even as he was trying to escape a burning 737. Read or hear more from the ABC:
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2008/s2453641.htm
I have previously heard of a case where a man used the twitter service to let people know he was arrested by Egyption authorities:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/25/twitter.buck/index.html
Both stories might be looked at as extreme uses of the twitter service or other micro-blogging and social services. As mobile phones become more location-aware, social networking services such as twitter are tapping into this capability of mobile phones making them even more usable in distress situations or even to report crime. Coupled with cameras, these services in addition to location-aware devices can become effective crime fighting tools.
