Amazon hooks in Naked Conversations?

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When we started our Naked Conversations book blog (the book starts shipping next week, by the way) I never imagined that booksellers would change their practices to include book blogs. Amazon just announced its Connect program that does just that. Here’s the details on Memeorandum and on ClickZ.

This is going to kick off a trend, by the way, of combining walled garden approaches like the one Amazon has with the wide-open hinterlands of the blogs. I’m getting demos of other companies who are similarly looking to make the blog the center of the world. Even at Microsoft we’re starting to think this way. The CES crew asked me yesterday whether I could blog from CES with a special CES tag that they’d use to suck my content in and redistribute it.

Update: TDavid says that Amazon’s new program isn’t a true blog pointing program, but rather something else. He gives details on his blog (no comments and no RSS feeds are allowed, for instance, sigh).

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  3. I just went through the Byzantine process of creating an Amazon Connect author “blog” and adding the first “message.> Here’s the link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/id/A6J4PB0O9E7HS.

    You can get to Amazon connect with the following URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/15700651.

    I’ve confirmed that external links work in “messages” via a redirect. In most cases (e.g., favorite music and movies), your only option is to choose from recently-visited Amazon CD and DVD listings. Unfortunately, my favorite movie (Bye, Bye Brazil) didn’t make it to VHS or DVD.

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  4. I just went through the Byzantine process of creating an Amazon Connect author “blog” and adding the first “message.> Here’s the link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/id/A6J4PB0O9E7HS.

    You can get to Amazon connect with the following URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/15700651.

    I’ve confirmed that external links work in “messages” via a redirect. In most cases (e.g., favorite music and movies), your only option is to choose from recently-visited Amazon CD and DVD listings. Unfortunately, my favorite movie (Bye, Bye Brazil) didn’t make it to VHS or DVD.

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