Amazon Debuts New Store Building Technology

By Alice Hill
RealTechNews

Looks like Amazon.com is going to let you build your own store of their products. This is actually not a new concept and comes about a week after dot-bomb survivor Vstore.com annouced it was folding. I always liked the Vstore model - you build a store that has your logo and merchandise (that really just comes from VStore) and then launch it and when people buy you get a cut. Pretty much like being a storefront for Amazon. Which you now can.

Earlier this month Amazon also lanched contextual ad units, called Omakase. The ad units are not compatible with Google or Yahoo’s contextual ad programs and will not appear here. The Google police are too tough to mess with after being dropped once already!

We Say: Prepare for thousands of mini Amazons all over the place. VStore, I feel for you. You were truly ahead of your time. And for the contextual ad units - Amazon, what took you so long???