Roundup: Amazon takes over reader social networking, IE8 to subtract ads, bad signs from China and more
Amazon buys social network for book lovers — Shelfari, a small social network for bibliophiles, has been acquired by Amazon.com, according to John Cook at the Seattle PI. Amazon also has a stake in Shelfari’s main competitor, LibraryThing.
Internet Explorer to subtract some ads — A feature called InPrivate Blocking will stop tracking pixels that help advertisers see where you have been on the web, while another privacy feature will prevent information like cookies and browsing history from… Continue Reading
GoodReads shows that people still read and love their books
Forgive Otis Chandler if he still believes people read paper artifacts like books. His grandfather and namesake, after all, was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times.
But this 30-year-old Chandler knows that books are still close to our hearts because he is the co-founder, with his wife Elizabeth Chandler, of GoodReads. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company runs a social-networking site for book lovers. Since 2006, it has added 1.3 million registered users and is growing… Continue Reading