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Comment on An Amazon Wishlist: The Top 3 Features I Really Want Added to My Kindle by Bob Kerns

Bob Kerns — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:34:47 +0000

Yes, it was a fun discussion of what book you should read next — so what did you end up going with?

It seems to me, reading an eBook should pretty much construct an ad hoc “book club” out of your social graph, looking for people reasonably close in your graph, who have read the book in the reasonable past (or present, or perhaps put it on a wish list).

“reasonably close” would for many books be pretty far-flung, as only very popular books would have close hits in your graph, but you’d still be likely to find people of similar tastes and interests, and be more focused than without the social graph.

Comment on An Amazon Wishlist: The Top 3 Features I Really Want Added to My Kindle by Erik Giberti

Erik Giberti — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:06:11 +0000

On point 2 above, other Kindles, namely the keyboard models, do let you rate books, but are lacking in the “you might also like” suggestions category. My $0.02.

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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:36:49 +0000

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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:36:46 +0000

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Comment on Tunerfish/Comcast/Plaxo: What a ride! by Charlie Payne

Charlie Payne — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:15:53 +0000

John
Charlie Payne here; I’ve been selling advertising in b2b and special interest consumer mags/websites for over 25 yrs now; Not sure if your startup needs that kind of help, but happy to talk further.

PS I have 2 20something boys; told them your T-shirt idea from HS English (hers: The final frontier – HIs: To boldly go where no man has gone before) – they got a huge bang out of that.

Comment on Tunerfish/Comcast/Plaxo: What a ride! by therealmccrea

therealmccrea — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:43:35 +0000

Thanks, cuz!

Comment on Tunerfish/Comcast/Plaxo: What a ride! by steven

steven — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:54:26 +0000

I’ve always been a great admirer of your work and all the fantastic things you did including thesocialweb.tv Hope you bring back thesocialweb.tv with the latest and the best tech info!!

Best wishes on your next adventure! To the future and beyonddd

Comment on Tunerfish/Comcast/Plaxo: What a ride! by Raj

Raj — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:06:42 +0000

Good luck to you with your next gig, John!

Comment on Tunerfish/Comcast/Plaxo: What a ride! by Coleen

Coleen — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:01:45 +0000

Onward and upward indeed! My favorite expression! Good luck cuz!

Comment on Tunerfish/Comcast/Plaxo: What a ride! by therealmccrea

therealmccrea — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:24:05 +0000

Thanks, Howard!