I was reading up on the Canon E2 hand strap when I noticed a new section on Amazon’s product page (as if it wasn’t long enough). There is now a “ProductWiki” section, where customers can edit their own information on the product. I see this as another move from Amazon to use customers to gather/check most of the information on a product. This adds to customer reviews, customer images, and customer lists. You can see a list of the most edited wiki pages.

I love to see all of these new tools added. It really adds to the amount of information you can get about a product. However, I would really like to see Amazon step back and try to redesign their pages a little. Things are becoming very cluttered and cumbersome to figure out. For instance, how long have these Wiki pages been around before I noticed them?

Tags: Amazon wiki

I haven’t been as excited about something as I am about this in a long time (as my post frequency shows :-/). Gmail is adding the ability to chat on the Gtalk network WITHIN the Gmail web interface. This means you don’t need Gtalk or a Jabber client installed, it all takes place in the DHTML interface of Gmail. E-mail and Chat are seamlessly integrated together. Added together with the frequently added ability to view Gtalk chat logs from within Gmail, this is becoming one killer web application. Can it take on AIM? Tonight I watched friends struggle to get AIM working on school-owned computers due to software issues… a Gmail/Gtalk solution would have been running instantly (though I still love Meebo when I need web-based IM).

Read more: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/chat.html

Tags: Google gtalk IM AJAX