http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/08/10/summer-reading-series-a-swing-through-amazon Comments for "Summer Reading Series: A Swing Through Amazon" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/08/10/summer-reading-series-a-swing-through-amazon#comment-1250 And another endorsement of NextBillionaires in the ongoing debate over terminology. Anyone else have a preference?<br /> <br /> (Thanks for the referral, Sara!)<br /> <br /> By the way, in yesterday&#39;s post, I forgot to mention Untapped as a good read. For more on the book, check out <a href="/blogs/2006/07/20/nextbillion-interview-creating-value-in-underserved-markets">last month&#39;s interview</a> with authors John Weiser and Michele Kahane. <br class="clear" /> Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:00:35 -0400 Rob Katz comment 1250 at http://www.nextbillion.net http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/08/10/summer-reading-series-a-swing-through-amazon#comment-1249 <p>BusinessWeek published a summer reading list from leading entrepreneurs: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_25/b3989649.htm?campaign_id=smlbz_Aug8&amp;link_position=link14">http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_25/b3989649.htm?campaign_id=smlbz_Aug8&amp;link_position=link14</a>.  </p><p>None of the choices are revolutionary (in fact, I think anything that has been on the NYTimes Bestsellers List for the last few years should be disqualified...ahem, &quot;The Tipping Point&quot;), but a number of them suggest some interesting reads for NextBillionairs.</p><br class="clear" /> Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:50:03 -0400 sara standish comment 1249 at http://www.nextbillion.net http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/08/10/summer-reading-series-a-swing-through-amazon <a href="/blogs/2006/08/09/summer-reading-series-idb-america"><p style="padding: 5px; float: left;"><img src="http://www.nextbillion.net/files/images/Summer Reading.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image img_assist_custom" width="160" height="159" /></p>Yesterday</a>, I recommended a back issue of IDBAmerica; today, I’m piggybacking on conventional wisdom to determine my book recommendations. I am an infrequent <a href="http://www.amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> user, but I am sold on their community-driven recommendation feature. You know what I’m talking about – if you click on a given book, Amazon runs a query through its database and tells you that other people who bought this also viewed/bought/enjoyed X. For instance, if you search for &quot;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131467506/ref=pd_sim_b_3/002-3352166-9045601?ie=UTF8"><em>Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid</em></a>&quot;, Amazon would tell you that others interested in it also purchased &quot;<em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/explorer/0131439871/1/ref=pd_sxp_more/002-3352166-9045601?ie=UTF8&amp;o=9">Capitalism at the Crossroads</a>.</em>&quot; The search results are weighted using algorithms I could never claim to understand, but certain books appear before others in what seems to be a logical arrangement based on popularity or number of copies purchased.<br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/08/10/summer-reading-series-a-swing-through-amazon">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/08/10/summer-reading-series-a-swing-through-amazon#comment Miscellaneous Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:18:06 -0400 Rob Katz 3144 at http://www.nextbillion.net