Bezos and O'Reilly 2.0

theodp writes "Looks like Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly are investing together again, and this time it has nothing to do with patent reform. In Bezos Goes Web 2.0 Wild, Private Equity Week's Alexander Haislip reports that Explore Holdings, which as of late has been doing business as Bezos Expeditions, is one of 19 investors that have pumped $34.3M into O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures."

Re:Not the best investment

[William_Lee]

Perhaps Mr. Bezos should spend more time working for Amazon.com. They used to be the best, but now they are a barely maintained database of discontinued products with bad specs and irrelevant search results.

Care to provide evidence of this before you're modded down by someone else into the depths of troll hell?

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[RickRussellTX]

Fine, mod me into obscurity for my opinions.

My point is that I wouldn't trust Jeff Bezos to find the best tech investments, because his own company is doing a such a poor job of maintaining their own database, even in their core business. Do a search on something as simple as a book title (say, "War of the Worlds") then try and wade through the bizarre results. Of the top 5, one of them is actually a paperback copy of H. G. Wells' _The War of the Worlds_. Two of them are peripherally related (an illustrated

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[tcopeland]

> I don't think that Mr. Bezos would
> recognize a Web 2.0 application

On the other hand, Amazon is doing a bunch of innovative things, like the Simple Storage Service (S3). We're using S3 for indi [getindi.com] (with encryption, of course), and it's very, very handy; it keeps us from having to build out a big storage infrastructure.

There's also the Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) they're doing. I was at a Rails Edge conference last week and James Duncan Davidson [duncandavidson.com] did a nifty presentation on deploying Rails apps. The

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O'Reilly 2.0

[Anonymous Coward]

The no spin zone with AJAX and semantic tags.

Hype 2.0

[Anonymous Coward]

The really advanced stuff is really obscure and really subtle. Not something cool hunters are likely to pick up on. Move along. Nothing to see here.

Two of them?

[dangitman]

Dang it, isn't one Bill O'Reilly already too many?

Unperson 2.0

[BillGatesLoveChild]

Jeff Bezos won't care, but what about Tim O'Reilly when he discovers a story about him on Slashdot only got 14 posts?

BTW, Bezos is a "Red"

[doom]

If it matters to you, Bezos is clearly a "Red" (i.e. Republican)... (I find that most Amazon customers don't seem to know this).

If you examine the buyblue.org data for political contributions by bookstores [buyblue.org], you'll see that Amazon is a solidly republican company, as opposed to Barnes and Nobels, which is solidly Democratic.

Notably, Borders makes no political contributions at all.

And myself, I try to shop at Stacey's [staceysbooks.com], an independant San Francisco store that, while a rather large place, appears to be too