Maybe I missed something but let me just put this out in the open.
People are calling the new iPad tablet from Apple the Kindle killer. But they also said its going to run all the apps that the iPod Touch and iPhone run.
There is a free Kindle App for the iPod and iPhone. It lets you buy/read Kindle books on your Apple devices.
So….
Aren’t people going to still be able to read their Kindle books on the iPad?
This news just came across the pipeline from Google:
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.
In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.
Thank you for your continued support!
Sincerely,
The Google Apps team
While I am always using the latest and greatest version of any browser, I know some of you don’t like to update until you have to and, if you are using the Google products listed above, looks like you finally have to!
On a side note, I am really proud of them for not just going out and being all “Rah Rah Chrome!”
I have to say, having worked at a major dotcom, this is very ballsy of them. Normally, sites bend over backwards for the people using the old browsers for years after they should have upgraded. Google is basically taking the “We are Google. If you want to use us, update already” take which just shows their muscle.
In the highly competitive world of free scrolling gallery widgets for the bottom of your eBay listings, I had earlier expressed my preference for Seller Circle. They used to offer several slick choices all of which were free and you didn’t even need to sign up for their site to use them. You can read my original post about them here.
However, a few months ago, when eBay redesigned the listing pages, their galleries no longer worked. They would open the new items in a frame only causing this endless frame within a frame within a frame disaster so I ditched them, hoping they would fix the galleries up soon.
But they just sent out this email today:
Dear Seller Circle members,Wow, I can’t believe that after all this time, this is the first time that Mike and I are sending an email to all of our users. We have a couple big updates that we wanted to tell you about.
1. We’re replacing the Floating Gallery with a new gallery. The main reason, as many of you have noticed, is that the Floating Gallery no longer floats! Because of the way that eBay restyled and re-engineered their listing pages, we’re no longer able to float the gallery at the bottom of your buyers’ web browsers. The floating gallery was designed to be very small, because its placement made it highly visible. Because it can no longer float, it’s no longer a very compelling design for an eBay gallery. The new gallery is big, your items’ images look gorgeous, it spins, it zooms… it’s really, really cool! Mike and I are extremely happy with it and we hope that you will be too.
2. We’re phasing out the free (formerly floating) gallery in favor of the new gallery, which will cost a low subscription fee of $2.99/month with a 7 day free trial so you can all see how it performs in your listings. The subscriptions are easily managed through PayPal and can be cancelled anytime. Previously, we relied on eBay’s Affiliate Program to offset our costs, but we made a mistake in how we tracked referrals and our participation in the Affiliate Program was discontinued. Mike and I REALLY wish that we could continue to make the best free tools for the eBay community, but we’re just unable to any longer. I should point out that we don’t have billing information or PayPal relationships set up with any of our users, so don’t worry – we won’t (and can’t) automatically bill you unless you choose to use the new gallery.
You can see the new gallery at the all-new Seller Circle website (http://www.sellercircle.com) and you can start your free trial by just signing in and clicking the link that you’ll see at the top of the page. The former gallery will continue to work as usual until the end of February.
Thank you so much for being a part of the Seller Circle community. We hope that you’ll find that the new gallery really helps to boost your sales!
-Christian Williams
co-founder of Seller Circle
$3 a month for a gallery that everyone else offers for free?
I will say this, though. The new gallery is very very slick (you can see it here) but if all I’m getting for $3 a month is that, I’m not interested.
What do you think?
I spelled impatience right on the first try, people. There socks must be lucky!
You know what else is lucky? This eBay listing fee sale that starts today!
A few of us on Twitter were lamenting the fact that this was the first ever eBay update where we were actually eager for the new fees to go into effect. For many of us, the new fees are such a good deal, it’s frankly annoying to be paying 35 cents a listing when we will be paying only 20 cents starting in April.
eBay has, for a change, heard our pleas and is giving store owners a listing fee sale on Fixed Price that lasts until the day the new fees go into effect. (That’s normal FP, not Store Inventory which is still 3 cents until it goes away.) So we can stop our belly aching and start reaping the discount benefits right away! Yay!
From eBay’s standpoint, this is really smart for three reasons
I know that eBay is only doing it for the reasons above but, heck, I don’t care why they are doing it as long as I get a little fee discount to keep my impatience from getting the better of me. 
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a whole bunch of Store Inventory items I have to go convert to Fixed Price before tomorrow.
Here is the fee release in full:
Attention Store subscribers: List for just 10¢ |
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