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  • Aaron Parecki
    It's absolutely wild to me that companies will mail me a postcard a few weeks after an Amazon purchase and offer a $150 gift card to leave a review! Is that really profitable? Are they actually going to make back $150 because of my one review?
    Portland, Oregon • 47°F
    7 likes 10 replies
    #amazon
    Tue, Mar 7, 2023 4:28pm -08:00
  • Amazon built its hyper efficient warehouses by embracing chaos — Quartz (classic.qz.com)
    #amazon
    Sun, Feb 19, 2023 6:28am -08:00
  • How to host a static website with https using amazon s3 | by Ly Channa | Medium (channaly.medium.com)
    #amazon #aws #s3 #cloudfront
    Thu, Sep 1, 2022 11:18am -07:00
  • Amazon reviews are being gamed by shady sellers who swap out listings on popular pages. (slate.com)
    #amazon #review
    Fri, Jan 21, 2022 1:01pm -08:00
  • Aaron Parecki
    My in-store Whole Foods purchases are now showing up in my Amazon order history page and while I fully expected this to happen at some point I am just not sure how I feel about it now
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 44°F
    8 likes 1 repost 5 replies
    #amazon
    Thu, Sep 16, 2021 7:56am -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki
    Dear Whole Foods aka Amazon. You know my entire grocery shopping history, you know how much tofu I buy, so why on earth would you think it's appropriate to send me ads for ground beef? #vegetarian #ads
    Portland, Oregon • 62°F
    16 likes 1 repost 7 replies
    #amazon #vegetarian #ads
    Thu, Jul 22, 2021 10:23am -07:00
  • Is Amazon Deleting Or Blocking Your Reviews? - LandingCube (landingcube.com)
    #amazon #review
    Fri, Nov 6, 2020 7:48pm -08:00
  • Kyle Taggart https://twitter.com/hikyletaggart
    I made around $12k total in 2019 from YouTube ads, Amazon Affiliate income, and sponsorships. Also got free products to review and free services. Hoping to double that by the end of 2020. If anyone wants to talk about that type of stuff, I’m an open book! #youtube #Amazon
    Portland, Oregon • 65°F
    #youtube #Amazon
    Sat, Jul 11, 2020 4:30pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Jul 11, 2020 9:16pm -07:00)
  • Aaron Parecki
    I finally imported my amazon purchase history into my own database so I can search for past purchases by amount, which it turns out is a key component to how I do my accounting.

    Previously I was searching my email for amounts then clicking thru to see the order details because amazon stopped including them in the email. So much less clicking now!
    Portland, Oregon • 72°F
    1 like 3 replies
    #amazon #accounting
    Fri, Jun 12, 2020 8:55am -07:00
  • I Blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple (gizmodo.com)
    1 like
    #amazon #clickbait #digital #detox #tech
    Fri, Feb 8, 2019 9:41pm -08:00
  • I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible. (gizmodo.com)
    "Its global empire also includes Amazon Web Services (AWS), the vast server network that provides the backbone for much of the internet, as well as Twitch.tv, the broadcasting behemoth that is the backbone of the online gaming industry, and Whole Foods, the organic backbone of the yuppie diet. "
    #amazon #web #clickbait
    Tue, Jan 22, 2019 8:53pm -08:00
  • Amazon wants a key to your house. I did it. I regretted it. (www.washingtonpost.com)
    #amazon #smarthome
    Thu, Dec 7, 2017 8:16am -08:00
  • I turned a Furby into an Amazon Echo. Introducing: Furlexa (howchoo.com)
    #electronics #furby #alexa #amazon #echo #hacking
    Wed, Nov 29, 2017 8:27am -08:00
  • Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
    #amazon #alexa
    Wed, Oct 25, 2017 7:02am -07:00
  • Amazon offers two-hour delivery of beer, wine in Portland | KGW.com (www.kgw.com)
    "Amazon says Portlanders have used [Prime Now] to purchase tens of thousands of items, the most popular being sparkling water, organic macaroni and cheese, and the Kindle Paperwhite."
    #pdx #amazon
    Wed, Aug 23, 2017 8:58pm -07:00
  • I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon (petapixel.com)
    #amazon #scam
    Wed, Aug 23, 2017 8:58am -07:00
  • Amazon (AMZN) owns a whole collection of secret brands, USPTO trademark filings reveal — Quartz (qz.com)
    #amazon
    Tue, Aug 8, 2017 7:50am -07:00
  • Amazon Alexa Team
    Aaron Parecki
    I've been really enjoying the Flash Briefing in the mornings, but I have a request. There are several feeds which don't update as often as others (some update multiple times a day, some every few days). When I'm listening to the news in the morning, it's incredibly frustrating to hear a duplicate of what I heard the previous day. However right now my only option is to tell Alexa to skip that item, or just remove it from the list.

    I would prefer if Alexa could keep track of whether she's already played a particular item, and quietly skip over it if there is nothing new in that particular feed. This would make the experience much better, and I'd be able to add a lot more flash briefing sources without worrying about hearing old content!
    Portland, Oregon, USA
    #alexa #amazon
    Thu, Jul 27, 2017 5:42pm -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki
    After reading this, I'm seriously considering publishing my conference videos on Amazon's new Video Direct! http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/10/amazon-takes-on-youtube-with-launch-of-amazon-video-direct/
    Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DEU
    2 likes 1 reply
    #video #livestream #amazon
    Tue, May 10, 2016 9:53pm +02:00
  • My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon's Bizarre New Bookstore | The New Republic (www.newrepublic.com)
    #amazon #books
    Thu, Nov 5, 2015 2:48pm -08:00
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Senior Security Architect at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming and dabble in product design.

I've been tracking my location since 2008 and I wrote 100 songs in 100 days. I've spoken at conferences around the world about owning your data, OAuth, quantified self, and explained why R is a vowel. Read more.

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