by sairam

Memories on the Cloud

The Cloud companies are competing for end users for allowing them to use their services to store their memories(mostly photos/videos) in the Cloud (Ahem! remote harddisks that scale). Its the era of the cloud and sharing.

Pictures are the fastest way to capture a moment. A picture is worth a 1KB of words (but sized about a few MB). Sharing and saving photos, videos are getting famous and easy with cloud storage from each of Adobe, Amazon, Google, Dropbox along with Flickr (now providing free 1TB of storage). Google Glass makes it very easy to snap photos. (Article on Wired). (Don’t forget to read through the most boring parts of Disclaimer and T&C before using services).

Adobe Revel::

Pricing: Free | $5.99/Month – Unlimited Photo Upload during 1st month

Works On: Mac, iDevices, Web

Uses: Amazon EC2 servers

Amazon CloudDrive::

Works on: Android, Mac, Web

Flickr::

Free 1TB of space (1000/1024 GB) (with Ads when browsing)- Announced on 21 May 2013

Pricing: Free | $49/year | $499/year

Works on: Web

Dropbox::

Free 3GB or 5GB space for photos/videos – Announced early 2012

Pricing: Free 2GB + 250MB/invite | $9.99/month (100 Gigs) | $19.99/month (200 Gigs) | $49.99 ( 500 Gigs )

Works on: Web, Android, iDevices, Desktop

PicasaWeb / Google+ Photos::

Pricing: Free with 5GB / 15 GB (15 GB now with Google Drive) | $4.99/month (100Gigs) | $9.99/month (200 Gigs)

Works on: Web

Box ::

(Nothing special for multimedia content as per advertisement)

Pricing: 5GB Free | $9.99/month (25 GB) | $19.99/month (50GB)

Works on: Web | Windows

05.16.13

by sairam

Competition Monitoring

A book costs 11.36 Lakhs. Source: Silence on the Wire | BookAdda.com.

Screenshot:

Something like this happened between two sellers on Amazon.com few years ago. Both of them were thinking about buying the product from the other person and the script increased it thousands of dollars.

10.03.11

by sairam

$30 tablet in India ? Beats the bloddy fire

05.06.11

by sairam

Kindle is the best selling product at Amazon. Alexa would not be lying on the trends

10.17.09

by sairam

Amazon.com announces order deadlines for 2009 holiday

Amazon.com announces order deadlines for 2009 holiday season.

Amazon has introduced these shipping enhancements just in time for the holidays. For the 2009 holiday season, the following order deadlines apply for delivery by Dec. 24: Dec. 17: FREE Super Saver Shipping Dec. 20: Standard Shipping Dec. 22: Two-Day Shipping (order as late as 7 p.m. PST; varies by item; free with Amazon Prime) Dec. 23: One-Day Shipping (order as late as 3:30 p.m. PST; varies by item; just $3.99 per item with Amazon Prime) Dec. 24: Same-Day Shipping (order as late as 1 p.m. PST; varies by item; just $5.99 per item with Amazon Prime

source: Amazon Investor Relations

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