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Amazon CloudFront
Bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 11:16 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Amazon Sues New York Over State Law on Collection of Sales Tax
Bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, May 2, 2008 @ 09:59 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is going to be a big issue, especially as it involves regulation that is partially based on affiliate marketing. New York claims if any Amazon Associates (people who place Amazon ads or use referral links on their site) are residents of the state of New York, then Amazon must collect sales tax on behalf the state.
Note that the issue of whether sales tax should be collected is not at issue here, what’s at issue is if Amazon has to collect the additional sales tax, or if it is the responsibility of the consumer to report it on their state returns.
As I mentioned above, what’s interesting here is the use of Amazon’s associate program as a method of establishing Amazon’s legal presence in New York. At some point, affliate marketing is going to subject to some sort of regulation, and while that isn’t the intrinsic goal of this law, it is certainly worth noting the legal system starting to take a closer look at how affiliate marketing works.
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, April 11, 2008 @ 19:41 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
I had skimmed over descriptions of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, which is actually a people powered research system, but this is the first time I’ve given it a good look. You can submit HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks, i.e. research, judgment, review) and anyone else can take on those tasks for a monetary reward.
The monetary reward is only a few cents per task (varies by HIT), which is great for people hiring the researches, but while HITs tend to be simple, that’s really a small amount of money, so I’m wondering who will take the time to do all this work. That being said, there are probably enough bored people on the Internet to accomodate these requests.
Regardless, it’s an interesting model and I’m curious how it will pan out.
