Jun

Blog post driving book sales

I’ve been catching up on my RSS feeds and just checked the latest post from Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose discussing their top 5 favorite books of all time.

I found couple of the recommendations interesting and decided to purchase them online and it turns out that I definitely wasn’t the only one. Check out the recommended books on the right side bar!

Book recommendations on Adlibris.fi

I’ve been using Adlibris quite a bit recently and it has almost completely replaced Amazon.com for my book purchasing needs. If you live in Finland, Sweden, Denmark or Norway I highly recommend giving Adlibris a try.

Apr

Even traditional companies are embracing twitter

I’m constantly amazed with Twitter and how fast it is being adopted. Not just by individuals but companies too, though so far it’s the “web 2.0″ type establishments that seem to be active. It used to be the same thing with blogs, starting with early-adopter-individuals and ending up with most of today’s most respected companies having a blog (of some sort) to ‘interface with the public’.

Now it seems that the traditional types are also waking up to the twitter-mania. I had a first hand experience of this just earlier this week. My frustrated tweet on the difficulties in choosing the best pocket size HD camcorder was noticed by two of the three companies whose products I had been considering to buy. First I get a reply tweet from @KodakCB giving me a link to a face-off review of two of the models and soon after that @vadovideocams sends a tweet on possible online shops that carry the Creative Vado HD and ship to Finland. @vadovideocams even made the effort to search eBay for a good deal on Vado!

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Maybe this is a glimpse of the future? Perhaps one day you can get the latest reviews and recommendations from @Audi and @BMW when it is time to renew the lease on your company car – and surely @Lego and @Hasbro will give me great ideas on what to buy my toddler when it’s time to do some Christmas shopping.