Archive for July, 2011
Final Amazon Associates Payment
27, Jul 2011Sad day. As far as I can tell, I received my final Amazon Associates payment today. I had credit for sales through June 30, 2011 so I may get another payment but it’ not easy to tell because of the closing of the account. Sad day.
VUDU: The Other Streaming Movie Rental Service
26, Jul 2011I was reminded of the VUDU service today. VUDU is a streaming service that lets you rent or buy movies and TV shows and streams them to you. They started out life as a dedicated box you would purchase that had a portion of the movies on their service cached on the internal hard drive. [...]
- In: Over The Top
- Tags: amazon, netflix, otp, over the top, roku, vod, vudu
Car Registration Warning
18, Jul 2011Starting July 1st, 2011, residents of California received a little tax relief. The temporary tax that was implemented on April 1, 2009 and was not renewed further by the California legislature. Around the June 30th deadline to extend the taxes I recall seeing a forlorn Jerry Brown on the news saying how disastrous not extending [...]
Netflix Alternatives
13, Jul 2011As you read here, or on some other source, Netflix is raising their prices for the streaming and DVD combo service. They are raising it from $9.99 per month to $15.98. From the sound of their blog post on the subject, they are pretty resolute on this change. As always, our members can easily choose [...]
- In: Over The Top
- Tags: amazon, hulu, netflix, pandora
Netflix Raising Prices 60% in September
12, Jul 2011Or, if you go back in time to the point that Netflix added streaming to the service ($7.99 then) they are effectively doubling the price for streaming and one DVD at a time. Amazon Prime, and their one price for Prime shipping services and streaming, is starting to look more interesting. Prime is $79 per [...]
- In: Over The Top
- Tags: amazon, netflix, roku
Audible Bucks the Trend
11, Jul 2011“And the hits just keep on coming” is what I thought I would be saying when I received an email from Audible. As you may or may not know, Audible was purchased by Amazon. When I saw the words “Audible” and “affiliates” in the same email, I thought that was the next affiliate program to [...]
- In: Over The Top
- Tags: affiiates, amazon, audible, california, jerry brown
Google Plus…
5, Jul 2011“…it’s a tech journalists circle jerk in there.” Even after seeing this description of the new Google service, I still want in. Is that wrong?
- In: General