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Use Twitter to Shop on Amazon with #AmazonCart

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Anyone who knows me knows I like Twitter, ok, I’m a little bit obsessed with Twitter (@3Quarters2Day) and I also like hashtags. Combine this with the best online shopping experience and you have a three-way WIN-WIN-WIN.It was just announced today that Twitter and Amazon launched their new social shopping experience and I’m pretty excited to give it a try, both as a customer and an affiliate.

Now if you see an Amazon product on Twitter all you have to do is REPLY with the hashtag #AmazonCart and the item will be added to your shopping cart. I haven’t checked this out myself yet to see if it works, and Amazon has all the details. So just click below for more information.


  Shop Amazon – #AmazonCart – Add to Your Cart Directly From Twitter This does not mean you have purchased the item, or it has shipped. It only places it in your cart for future review and a reminder you wanted to order the item. You still need to go to Marine Corps and moved away from home. They kept their own Amazon Wish lists up to date and I always have a wide variety and choices of what to get them for birthdays and Christmas. Likewise the reverse is true. They start asking me in October if I have updated my wish list.

Amazon is the go to shopping site for many military personnel as they can get items shipped to APO addresses overseas when on deployment. Gone are the days of going without when in country. Order through Amazon and they will ship it anywhere. (just don’t expect their drones to deliver it…sorry had to include that) I’m interested to hear what you think about this new way to shop on Amazon.

Will you give it a try, or have you tried it yourself? Or is social shopping too transparent and an intrusion? So celebrate the new Twitter Amazon partnership by stopping by Amazon and creating a new wish list. Don’t worry I won’t tell.


News About the Amazon Twitter Partnership

 

Amazon Steps Into Social Selling On Twitter With #AmazonCart

While you’re scrolling through your Twitter feed and a product with a link to an Amazon product pops by, simply reply to the message and add the hashtag #AmazonCart. The item will be placed in your cart so you can purchase it later. The service is only …
#Amazoncart and Twitter’s commerce problem

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How #AmazonCart Works On Twitter: Amazon Launches A New Way To Shop …

Before #AmazonCart works for Twitter users, they will have to authorize the retailer to access their accounts – which allows Amazon to read tweets from their timelines, see who they are following, follow new users on their behalf, update their profiles …
Amazon Launches #AmazonCart to Shop Using Twitter

Amazon is today rolling out an interesting new feature called #AmazonCart, which lets you add Amazon products to your shopping basket without leaving Twitter. To use the feature, you first have to connect your Twitter and …
Add items to your #AmazonCart directly from Twitter

As if you need more temptation to spend, Amazon has now made it possible to put items aside for purchase using Twitter. To start with, you need to connect your Twitter and Amazon accounts from your social settings page …
 

 

 

Funny and Humorous Books For Photographers

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Photography isn’t always serious. To me it’s a way to relax and have fun. To a professional photographer just being able to to laugh at themselves or the industry is almost a necessity, or else they would go crazy.You need to have a little fun with photography, that’s why most of us got into it to begin with.

So what is a camera buff do when they don’t have a camera in their hands? Read about photography, and not just serious technical stuff either, sometimes it’s just having fun again. Here are my favorite photography books. Keep these in mind for Christmas, a birthday, Mothers Day, anniversary, or just any time is perfect to give a gift to someone you love.

Fun With Photography
BUY on AMAZON

 

What the Duck: I’ve been reading this comic online for quite sometime and it’s well worth having on the coffee table. If you haven’t gotten enough of the first book try adding What the Duck, Rule of Nerds to the collection.

What the Duck: A W.T. Duck CollectionWhat the Duck, Rule of Nerds

Awkward Family Photos: This series has gone viral and taken the industry by storm. What poses, props, and settings we once thought were cute have now become a bad joke. Really good for a laugh. There are now Awkward Family calenders, games, and even puzzles. But the puzzle might be stretching it a bit. The partner to the Awkward Famy Photos is the  Awkward Pet Photos just as funny and we wonder why our kids grow up weird and our pets look at us funny.

Awkward Family PhotosAwkward Family Pet Photos

PhotoJojo: Now it’s time to get off the couch and actually create some unique and funny photos. This book is full of DIY (do it yourself) photo projects that will keep anyone busy for the afternoon. Even the dog. Is that a camera cam on his head? Photocrafts have become very popular and another alternative in displaying your photos. The ease of digital photography has opened up a wide range of paper crafts for weddings, graduations and parties.

Photojojo!: Insanely Great Photo Projects and DIYPhoto Craft: Creative Mixed Media and Digital Approaches

I Can Has Cheeszeburger: Now it’s the cats turn. Why is it cats are so amusing in posed photos? Maybe because they can be posed and propped with everything from beer cans to books and everything in between. Dogs won’t do that, that’s why they wear the video cam on their head (see above). If cats were to wear a video cam it would be VERY boring.

I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat ColleckshunHow to Take Over Teh Wurld: A LOLcat

Photography doesn’t need to be serious, it’s photos like these that have created great internet memes and made some people millionaires. Think of Grumpy Cat. Someone had to take a photo of him. You never know, maybe you’ll be the next internet sensation.

The Grumpy Guide to Life: Observations from GrumpyGrumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book

More Fun With Photog

More Fun With Photography

Living out dreams through the lens

Until then, Jennings plans to keep having fun with photography and working on a couple projects for Empty Planet Productions. “I love photography because I love capturing people’s memories, showing it to them and flipping their perspective. I also want …

Photographs Are No Longer Things, They’re Experiences

It’s the first time I’ve seen you have fun with photography and laughing while you take pictures.” The second thing I said was, “The images you were making weren’t documents; they weren’t for record. They were just a stream; just an experiential process.”.

Photojojo: Small Business, Big Fun

“We’re a company devoted to helping people have more fun with photography,” Gupta said as he sat in his office, artfully decorated with 4-by-6 photo prints. A poster hanging on one powder-blue wall reads: “Work Hard and Be Nice to People.” Gupta says …

How to have fun with photography at your wedding

Weddings are a special time. You’ll want to look back on the celebrations for years to come. With the advancement of technology and the trends for DIY-style and themed weddings, there’s so much more on offer to help you reminisce than the standard …