Alex Iskold from Read/WriteWeb has written an excellent article about how Amazon (in the US, at least) is going “Web 2.0″ with new features such as tagging and blogging for items in the store.

I really like how Amazon are attempting to generate a community around the site. I think in the long term, as tagging and blogging become more mainstream, this will benefit them in terms of sales. My only quibble is that all of this activity seems to be focused, for the time being at least, on Amazon US and not their other sites. Living in the UK, I’ve bought only a handful of difficult-to-find CDs or DVDs from their US site; most of my purchases come from Amazon UK.

So I’m hopeful that these new ideas will be rolled out across the other Amazon sites. In the meantime, though, it’s worth bearing in mind that if you’re having trouble tracking an item down in your own country, you might find it on one of the other 8 Amazon sites in different countries.

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