Tag Archives: wikis

Amazon relaunches ProductWikis as Amapedia

By Steve Weber | Published: February 4, 2007

In mid-2006, Amazon added a Wikipedia-like feature to many of its product detail pages. Much like the famous online encyclopedia, Amazon’s ProductWiki feature allowed anyone to create or edit content related to products being sold on Amazon. Now Amazon has quietly relaunched the wiki feature, establishing its own domain and a new name, Amapedia. The [...]

Now that's really plugging your book!

By Steve Weber | Published: December 22, 2006

Tech pundit Lawrence Lessig not only offers free downloads of his books, he makes sure the downloads are really fast. His new one, Codev2, is stored on an Amazon EC2 server, ensuring that just about any bandwidth requirement can be met. Codev2 was written in part through a collaborative wiki, available here. The text was [...]