Like most people with an iPhone and a few spare minutes I suppose, I spent some time with the new app for iPhone/iPod Touch from Amazon. Overall, a rather slick app for which I’ll probably have more in-depth thoughts after using it further. Here’s the oddest item I tested the “Amazon Remembers” service with:
As you can see, Amazon was able to properly identify my beloved Flava Flav alarm clock. Now it wasn’t able to to provide a Buy Now link, which is understandable given what a precious and rare time piece the Flava clock happens to be. But impressive nonetheless.
God bless the workers of Mechanical Turk.
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Waking up in the morning would be so much more interesting with that alarm clock, lol.
Lol! Actually I have this at the office (much to the chagrin of some co-workers). Sometimes I set the alarm for 5:00pm – Quittin’ Time!
I don’t think the Mrs. would appreciate being awoken by “Bass In Your Face” each day!
Since Derek linked to us both in the same post I thought I’d hop on over and say hello and welcome you to blogging. I hope you’ll return the visit as I post lots of useful tips for bloggers and social networking users. Great stuff so far; best to you!
I appreciate the welcome!
I will definitely be checking out your site to get some tips and gain some blogging/networking insight.
Thanks for visiting…
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