Amazon.com has pulled the trigger. As reported earlier, a looming Hawaii state tax law change relating to online affiliate marketers has prompted the Internet retailer to close the Amazon Associates accounts of Hawaii residents. Members of the local tech community are pushing Gov. Linda Lingle to veto HB1405, but Amazon.com is acting pre-emptively, clearly hoping [...]
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Amazon Dumps Hawaii Affiliates
June 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Hawaii, Politics, Technology, The Web
Tags: affiliates·amazon·marketing·retail·taxes
Hawaii Blog on the Amazon Kindle
May 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Blogs, Gadgets, Hawaii Blog, Technology
If you’re among the lucky geeks to have an Amazon Kindle, you can now subscribe to Hawaii Blog as you would any other electronic periodical. Amazon, using a secret formula that seems to perplex many a blogger, has set the price of a Hawaii Blog subscription to $1.99 a month. Of course, you could always [...]
Tags: amazon·blogs·kindle·subscribe·subscription
Eclipse Group to Explore Amazon EC2
April 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Hawaii, Technology
The next meeting of the Eclipse Hawaii Eser’s Group will focus on Amazon EC2, or “Elastic Compute Cloud,” a popular web service for developers. The group will introduce EC2, then discuss how the service supports Eclipse development with a live demo. Leading the discussion will be user group founder Gregory Hester. This month’s April 21 [...]
