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January 28, 2005

Amazon improves your local shopping experience

Amazon's new restaurant service has menus, directions, and customer reviews for restaurants in 6 major metropolitan areas. Not as many areas as Zagat, but I expect that will change fairly soon.

Even cooler, A9 yellow pages lets you virtually walk up and down the streets of your favorite shopping district. The How we did it is pretty cool too. They drove up and down the streets with GPS and video camera equipped trucks. (þ Nagendra Modadugu.)

Posted by ekr at January 28, 2005 6:58 PM | Filed under:

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Here's an idea: figure out how to integrate mobile Internet service and GPS in one device (if it hasn't already been done), and then tweak A9's service to accept GPS coordinates. Then you'd have an expensive device that enables you to walk down the street and see each store in turn as you walk! Wouldn't that be amazing!

Posted by: Dan Simon at January 29, 2005 9:22 AM