Here’s something for you to add to the next show; “Amazon Kindle sells out in 5.5 hours.”

On the Amazon homepage;
“We had high hopes for the Kindle before it’s launch, but we didn’t expect the demand that actually materialized. We sold out in the first 5.5 hours and have been scrambling to increase our manufacturing capacity ever since. We’ve been shipping on a first-come, first-served basis, but many customers have had to wait as long as six weeks after ordering.

Source: http://www.amazon.com

The Kindle has 2067 Reviews at the time I’m writing this. 44.9% of the reviews rate it as “5 stars.” Many of the reviews are quite interesting and very in-depth. It makes me wonder if these reviews are real or fictional–they’re just too well written.

While I find the Kindle a very interesting prospect, the $400 (US) price tag leaves quite a bit to be desired for a device that is basically read-only. If I could use it to surf the web similar to an iPod touch, I might find the price point more forgiving. I mean, I can buy a basic laptop for $400 and do a lot more with it. Sure it provides free “lifetime” wireless access, but that doesn’t work here in Canada, and I wonder just how long the access will remain “free” or how long before the Kindle starts automagically downloading advertisements in the middle of your reading your latest eNovel? Also, titles are $9.99 and I can buy a paperback for less than that, so why would I want to download an eBook for the same price as a paperback? If they included the eBook with the paperback, I might be more inclined.

Anyway… Kindle; Nice idea, too expensive. Just like the iPod touch, it’s an expensive toy.

Thanks for the input.

It is going to be interesting to see how SL is going to be used over time. Nice find.

Not sure how dispute resolution would work - it might stop people getting physical with each other!

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Thanks for another great informative show. Just joined up for the Alpha on Seesmic. Looks cool, seems at first like YouTube meets Twitter. The UN data site looks like a great resource. You had a question on the pipe(|)for downloads. It is just another delimiter to ease data parsing.

Take care.
Get well Cait!

I think Dave may have mentioned about the iPhone SDK and the reason Apple want to restrict the apps that appear on it is to ensure that all apps are “safe” and not going to damage the phone. I wouldn’t be happy if I downloaded an app on my phone and it broke it somehow through a virus or had malware or a keylogger installed. it may seem restrictive but it is Apple’s rep on the line and I think they are doing the right thing.

Hmm aggrigator of aggrigation…Did you run that through a spell-checker?

As for any feature of Vista that would compel me to migrate, there’s a lot. I think they have added so many to Vista that I switched to Leopard immediately. They really encourage you to migrate. Don’t you think?

As for the iPhone, I think we really need a competitor from Samsung or Nokia that would be up to the challenge. There’s not much to do apart from creating the same phone with customisable ringtones, longer battery life and lower price! I still don’t understand why I have to choose O2 UK. There are better providers.

Raf

Love the effort you guys put in,

Adam

P.S: The iPhone is really never going to be open, I mean, it’s made by apple. The company which charges £400-500 before you can even run OSX legally, let alone nicely.

If you really want to use the iPhone to it’s full potential, jailbreaking really is the only solution, and probably only will be.

This was just a off-topic P2P-question (podcaster to podcaster), somewhat related to technology.

Great show, once again!

/ Andy

Half way through the show at the moment, but just thought I’d add a correct to the whole Nine Inch Nails Ghosts album.

The first 9 tracks are free - they originally released the “first EP”, so to speak on torrent networks. You actually are meant to go to the website where you pay your 5 dollars and then get access to their servers to download the album in its entireity. However, the servers (in the first few weeks anyway) have had difficulty keeping up with the amount of traffic to the website, so people started uploading the entire thing to the torrent sites. The most interesting thing about the music i think that Trent (the lead singer) has released the album with a Creative Commons license. So even if you don’t pay for the album at all (I did, but just downloaded from torrents afterwards) there’s no legal issues whatsoever.

You should check it out anyways, it’s not a typical Nine Inch Nails album. It’s got heavy and soft moments and is entirely instrumental, I think it sounds like a soundtrack to a movie that hasn’t been made yet. I made a bit of a blog post about it here if anyone’s interested…

@Doug good glad you heard the show… Yeah this stuff is all coming out of Japan - smaller is better. It will be interesting to see if they can tweak XP enough. Like I said in the show - it might be going against what it is trying to accomplish - but then they are trying to access a bigger market, so I can see why. Time will tell.

If anyone has any questions or feedback, please feel free to contact me.

@Matt Great News dude!

Just a quick hello to say that FeedDemon has come through this week - it lives to fight another day on my computer.

Haven’t listened yet, leave that up to the train journey tomorrow.