Amazon Goes Wiki

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Amazon Goes Wiki Posted by Zonk on Saturday November 26, @08:06AM

from the no-ruining-this-like-the-last-one dept. The Internet Businesses

StWaldo writes "Amazon.com has added a 'ProductWiki' to some of their item pages. Wikified items seem to be limited to certain categories, DVDs being one un-wikied realm. Adding Wikiness to the site is just the latest in new participatory activities Amazon has adopted, along with tags and customer discussions." From the article: "So Amazon's gradually allowing you, along with your Wish List, your purchases, your clickstream, and, if you sell anything on Amazon, how good your reputation is--to build up a pretty detailed database of what you like (or don't) and what's important to you. I don't know what Amazon will do with this--fortunately, it seems to have a pretty light touch with how it uses what it knows about you--or what it will allow us to do with all this data. But as it grows, it could become a pretty powerful profile."


 * http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/25/2047202

November 22, 2005 Wikizon on Businessweek.com by Rob Hof


 * http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2005/11/wikizon.html


 * http://www.amazon.com/gp/wiki/what-is-this.html/002-5991530-9853636


 * http://www.amazon.com/gp/discussionboard/content/db-guidelines.html/002-5991530-9853636