Kevin Chiu » Amazon

Amazon’s next move with the Kindle DX

Kevin Chiu — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:43:26 +0000

I think Amazon is going to push into universities. Textbooks on Kindle should become the norm.

It reads PDFs natively, which is a huge win over the regular Kindle. Now, if only they could get the web browser to work better…

Amazon Kindle 2.0 – Yummy!

Kevin Chiu — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:35:55 +0000

Check out the Kindle on Amazon.

I created this mini-ad as sort of a shout out to Amazon. I believe they have a killer platform on their hands, but they’re not emphasizing the best part of it — the contract-less, free, mobile connectivity. Sure, it’s a nice book reader, but it could be a killer web appliance!

Search Engine usability study

Kevin Chiu — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:41:00 +0000

I participated in a search engine usability study today.

Google Code Search was supposed to be the crappiest among the given search engines – the Raphael said he would probably need to assist me during the tasks since they were known to trip up previous participants.

During the trial I discovered the trick to making Google Code Search work. Type in “test” after your query. This brings up test suites related to your result, which means you can figure out how to use the resulting APIs by example.

“You are by far the fastest Googler I have ever seen.”

My prize? $30 Amazon gift certificate. Yummy.