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วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 30 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
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วันอาทิตย์ที่ 26 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
Ten top motorbikes in abstract identified
Motorbike dealers may be interested in a Guardian article written by John Mullan in which he identifies ten of the best motorcycles in literature.
He starts by mentioning Setting Free the Bears by John Irving. Written in the 1960s, the book features the characters Hannes and Siggy, who set out on a tour of Austria on a 700cc Royal Enfield motorcycle.
Then comes Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig. According to Mr Mullan, "however you define this once-cult classic, no literary motorbiking column could omit it".
He notes that the narrator of the book introduces his audience to the main schools of western philosophy via metaphors from motorbike parts and mechanics. This is done while he is travelling across the US with his son on the back of his bike.
Meanwhile, a mention also goes out to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling.
Although motorbike dealers may not initially associate the book with their favoured mode of transport, Mr Mullan points out that in the first chapter, such two-wheeled devices play a role.
Hagrid enters on a flying motorbike with a sidecar and rescues Harry from Voldemort. Also, in the last book of the sequence, Hagrid crashes and destroys the magical vehicle - meaning the character may have been left in need of motorbike parts to get it up and running again.
Mr Mullan also mentions Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres, stating: "A motorbike can be romantic. So it is for benign occupier Captain Antonio Corelli, who squires the beautiful Pelagia around the island of Cephalonia on a motorcycle (when not playing the mandolin). Years later, the elderly Corelli returns to woo her - on a motorbike."
Those who want to see motorbikes in action from this book can watch the 2001 version of a film based on the literary offering starring the likes of Penelope Cruz.
He starts by mentioning Setting Free the Bears by John Irving. Written in the 1960s, the book features the characters Hannes and Siggy, who set out on a tour of Austria on a 700cc Royal Enfield motorcycle.
Then comes Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig. According to Mr Mullan, "however you define this once-cult classic, no literary motorbiking column could omit it".
He notes that the narrator of the book introduces his audience to the main schools of western philosophy via metaphors from motorbike parts and mechanics. This is done while he is travelling across the US with his son on the back of his bike.
Meanwhile, a mention also goes out to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling.
Although motorbike dealers may not initially associate the book with their favoured mode of transport, Mr Mullan points out that in the first chapter, such two-wheeled devices play a role.
Hagrid enters on a flying motorbike with a sidecar and rescues Harry from Voldemort. Also, in the last book of the sequence, Hagrid crashes and destroys the magical vehicle - meaning the character may have been left in need of motorbike parts to get it up and running again.
Mr Mullan also mentions Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres, stating: "A motorbike can be romantic. So it is for benign occupier Captain Antonio Corelli, who squires the beautiful Pelagia around the island of Cephalonia on a motorcycle (when not playing the mandolin). Years later, the elderly Corelli returns to woo her - on a motorbike."
Those who want to see motorbikes in action from this book can watch the 2001 version of a film based on the literary offering starring the likes of Penelope Cruz.
วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 23 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
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It's a lonely boring day, the dvd rental shop is closed and you dont have enough energy to visit the nearest cinema hall. So, what you do now? Download latest movies over the internet and watch them? Oh Yeah! Seems like a good idea! You hurridely open your computer, search google for downloading free movies, you land up on a site, and just when you click "Download" the website starts asking for money, credit card details, where do you live, and how many dogs you have, etc, etc. Being frustrated and rebuked you close your computer, and go off to sleep. This is called waste of energy, time, and in some cases, money.
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Isn't there any solution to this problem?
Yes, there is! A couple of months ago a new website has been launched, it's name is Gingle (www.gingle.co.cc). Now what's new in that? The answer is everything. Unlike other movie downloading websites which charges you 15$-16$ for downloading latest flicks and 8$-9$ for downloading older counterparts, Gingle does'nt charge you anything!! Nor this site asks for any user registration, etc.
For downloading movies what you have to do is to just visit Gingle, go to download section, select your movie, and click the download button, save the movie to your computer and when download completes kick back, watch and relax!!. Can there be anything more easy and simple than that?
Gingle has the best aspects of a movie website:
1- NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED - Perhaps the first good reason why anyone should download movies from gingle. So, say good-bye to those websites which require you to enter your credit card details and deprieve you of your hard earned cash in the name of downloading movies.
2- LATEST MOVIES availiable - The Second best reason for downloading movies from gingle. Gingle ensures that it's users get quality, free latest hollywood movies for download free of cost, so dont be surprised to see latest hollywood flicks on it's download page, just after 2-3 days of their release.
3- NO ACCOUNT, NO FUSS - It is normal for people to forget their username or password, so for added bonus you dont even have to register with them, recieve their news letter etc, etc. Put into another words, visit,click,download and enjoy!
4- NO ADS - like other websites filled with advertising, popups, animation ads, etc gingle gives you a respite with it's clean looks and no ad policy.
5- CAN'T FIND? REQUEST THEM - You cannot find your favourate movies? request for them in the movie request form, and see them added for download.
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And do tell about it to every idiot who goes around saying "Movies cant be downloaded for free from the internet"
visit.click.download.enjoy! - that's what we believe in!
วันพุธที่ 22 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter Opening This Spring At Universal’S Islands Of Adventure Theme Park
While Harry Potter fans worldwide wait with eager anticipation, Hogwarts Castle is currently under construction at Universal’s Islands of Adventure® in Orlando, FL! Meanwhile, all systems are “go” for the highly anticipated spring 2010 opening of Universal’s newest theme park adventure, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. ™
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 19 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
Watch Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Movie Part 1 Online
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Movie Part 1 is scheduled to be released on November 19, 2010. It is directed by David Yates and the storyline of the movie is taken from JK Rowling's novel of same name. It is the seventh and final installment from Harry Potter series. The second part of the movie will open in theatres on July 15, 2011.
วันเสาร์ที่ 18 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
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NEW: Harry Potter Trailer 3: youtube.com Green Lantern premiere live: youtube.com Monte Carlo - Selena Gomez: youtube.com Shark Night 3D trailer 2011 - official Shark Night trailer A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood-soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride from director David Ellis (The Final Destination, Snakes On a Plane), featuring a red-hot young cast including Sara Paxton (Superhero Movie, Last House on the Left), Dustin Milligan ("90210," Slither), Chris Carmack ("The OC"), Joel David Moore (Avatar), Chris Zylka (The Amazing Spider Man) and Katharine McPhee (The House Bunny). Arriving by boat at her family's Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when star football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood quickly evaporates. Assuming the injury was caused by a freak wake-boarding accident, the group realizes they have to get Malik to a hospital on the other side of the lake, and fast. But as they set out in a tiny speedboat, the college friends discover the lake has been stocked with hundreds of massive, flesh-eating sharks! As they face one grisly death after another, Sara and the others struggle desperately to fend off the sharks, get help and stay alive long enough to reach the safety ...
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วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 16 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
Watch Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Movie Part 1 Online
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Movie Part 1 is scheduled to be released on November 19, 2010. It is directed by David Yates and the storyline of the movie is taken from JK Rowling's novel of same name. It is the seventh and final installment from Harry Potter series. The second part of the movie will open in theatres on July 15, 2011.
วันจันทร์ที่ 13 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
How To Get LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4
Forget about complicated histories, plot intricacies, and deep character exposition: LEGO version of Harry Potter has slapstick. It's really the only option left for a game where none of the characters can talk, but luckily, it works just as well here as it has in previous Lego games. Actually, fans of blocky adventure games take the Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 like Hermione for schoolwork, reveled in the game's humor, familiar gameplay and many challenges. What separates this game from Lego cousins is the renewed focus on exploring and gathering: The game invites you to explore its rich detail rich environments with promises of more rewards and secrets than you can poke a stick at. The gameplay also operates tale with more purpose than in previous Lego games, which means you get a real sense of progression as you learn various charms and earn new skills. There are some minor errors which scattered bugs and an excessive difficulties in battle, but these are not enough to mar the magic.
วันพุธที่ 8 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554
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Facebook.com - Become a Fan! Twitter.com - Follow Us! We've got a 'what's next' for Harry Potter's Tom Felton. Stay tuned. Hello hello and you're back at ClevverTV. I'm Dana Ward at our headquarters and today we're talking about the next project for one Harry Potter castmate. A ton of industry insiders are saying that Tom Felton is set to appear in Caesar: Rise of the Apes - which is the prequel to the popular Planet of the Apes. In addition to the film's stars, James Franco, John Lithgow and Freida Pinto, Felton is reportedly set to play the son of actor Brian Cox, who's responsible for testing and messing with the primates to ultimately create genetically enhanced apes. Do you think that Felton's character will follow in the footsteps of his film father and also be partly evil to cause an ape rebellion?? Post your thoughts below, and also remember to subscribe, right now, on YouTube to ClevverTV for more info on this 2011 movie as well as for the latest breaking entertainment news. Dana Ward here, see ya soon!
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The Truth About Amazon.com
1.History and business model:
Amazon was founded in 1994, spurred by what Bezos refers to as his regret minimization framework, his effort to fend off late in life regret for not staking a claim in the Internet gold rush.1 It is common lore that Bezos wrote its business plan while he and his wife drove a 1988 Chevrolet Blazer from Fort Worth, Texas to Bellevue, Washington,although this story is largely apocryphal according to early employees of the company.original research?
The company began operating as an online bookstore under the name Cadabra.com (as in abracadabra), a name that Bezos quickly abandoned due to its sounding like "cadaver". While the largest brick-and-mortar bookstores and mail-order catalogs for books might offer 200,000 titles, an online bookstore could offer many times more. Bezos renamed his company "Amazon" after the world's most voluminous river.
The company was incorporated in 1994, in the state of Washington, began service in July 1995, and was reincorporated in 1996 in Delaware. The first book ever sold by Amazon.com was Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought.Amazon.com had its initial public offering on May 15, 1997, trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol amazon at an IPO price of US$18.00 per share (equivalent to US$1.50 after three stock splits during the late 1990s).
Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect to turn a profit for four to five years. In retrospect, the strategy was effective. Amazon grew at a steady pace in the late 1990s while many other Internet companies grew at a blindingly fast pace.
Amazon's "slow" growth caused a number of its stockholders to complain, saying that the company was not reaching profitability fast enough. When the Dot-com bubble burst and many e-companies went out of business, Amazon persevered and finally turned its first profit in the fourth quarter of 2002: a meager US$5 million, just 1¢ per share, on revenues of over US$1 billion, but it was important symbolically.
The firm has since remained profitable: net income was US$35.3 million in 2003, US$588.5 million in 2004, US$359 million in 2005, and US$190 million in 2006 (including a US$662 million charge on R&D in 2006). Nevertheless, the firm's cumulative profits remain negative. As of September 2007, the accumulated deficit stood at US$1.58 billion.
Revenue continued to grow thanks to product diversification and international presence: US$3.9 billion in 2002, US$5.3 billion in 2003, US$6.9 billion in 2004, US$8.5 billion in 2005, and US$10.7 billion in 2006. On November 21, 2005, Amazon entered the S&P 500 index, replacing AT&T after it merged with SBC Communications.
Time Magazine named Bezos its 1999 Person of the Year in recognition of the company's success in popularizing online shopping
Merchant partnerships
The Web sites of Borders (borders.com, borders.co.uk), Waldenbooks (waldenbooks.com), Virgin Megastores (virginmega.com), CDNOW (cdnow.com), and HMV (hmv.com) are powered and hosted by Amazon. Until June 30, 2006, typing ToysRUs.com into a browser would similarly bring up Amazon.com's Toys & Games tab; however, this relationship was terminated as the result of a lawsuit.4.
Amazon.com powers and operates retail web sites for Target, the NBA, Sears Canada, Sears UK, Benefit Cosmetics, Bebe Stores, Timex Corporation, Marks & Spencer, Mothercare, Lacoste and Bombay Company now defunct. For a growing number of enterprise clients, currently including the UK merchants Marks & Spencer and Mothercare, Amazon provides a unified multichannel platform from where a customer can interchangeably interact with the retail website, standalone in-store terminals, and phone-based customer service agents.
It also powers AOL's Shop@AOL service via Web Services technology.
The company's global headquarters is located on Seattle, Washington's Beacon Hill. It has offices throughout other parts of greater Seattle including Union Station and The Columbia Center.
2.The Product lines:
Amazon has steadily branched into retail sales of music CDs, videotapes and DVDs, software, consumer electronics, kitchen items, tools, lawn and garden items, toys & games, baby products, apparel, sporting goods, gourmet food, jewelry, watches, health and personal-care items, beauty products, musical instruments, industrial & scientific supplies, groceries, and more.
The company launched Amazon.com Auctions, its own Web auctions service, in March 1999. However it failed to chip away at industry pioneer eBay's juggernaut growth. Amazon Auctions was followed by the launch of a fixed-price marketplace business called zShops in September 1999, and a failed Sotheby's/Amazon partnership called sothebys.amazon.com in November. Although zShops failed to live up to its expectations, it laid the groundwork for the hugely successful Amazon Marketplace service launched in 2001 that let customers sell used books, CDs, DVDs, and other products alongside new items. Amazon Marketplace's main rival today is eBay's Half.com service.
Beginning August 2005 5, Amazon began selling products under its own private label, "Pinzon"; the initial trademark applications suggested the company intended to focus on textiles, kitchen utensils, and other household goods.In March 2007, the company applied to expand the trademark to cover a larger and more diverse list of goods, and to register a new design consisting of the "word PINZON in stylized letters with a notched letter O whose space appears at the "one o'clock" position." 6. The list of products registered for coverage by the trademark grew to include items such as paints, carpets, wallpaper, hair accessories, clothing, footwear, headgear, cleaning products, and jewelry.
On May 16, 2007 Amazon announced its intention to launch its own online music store.The store launched in public beta September 25, 2007, selling downloads exclusively in MP3 format without digital rights management.
In August 2007, Amazon announced Amazon Fresh, a grocery service offering perishable and nonperishable foods. Customers can pick up orders or have them delivered to their homes. Delivery is initially restricted to residents of Mercer Island, Washington, a wealthy suburb of Seattle.
3.Website:
A popular feature of Amazon is the ability for users to submit reviews to the web page of each product. As part of their review, users must rate the product on a rating scale from one to five stars. Such rating scales provide a basic idea of the popularity and dependability of a product.
The review feature is an important and highly influential function for customers and one of the main reasons for amazon.com’s success at selling books. As with book reviews anywhere, the buyer must beware that all reviewers have bias. Under normal circumstances, reviews give the reader at least a modest basis for evaluating a given book.
Because it is an open forum, the reader can benefit from a variety of perspectives. However, the anonymity of web reviewers increases the chances of abuse in the form of self-praise, praise from friends, or malicious criticism. This situation was confirmed in 2004 when the origin of reviews was accidentally made public on an amazon site, and some authors openly confirmed their glowing reviews of their own books.
Amazon provides an optional badging option for reviewers, e.g., to indicate the “real name” of the reviewer (based on a credit card) or to indicate that the reviewer is one of the “top” (most popular) reviewers. Some books have well over one thousand reviews (e.g. Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged), but many books, especially new ones, have none.
The U.S. site generally has the most reviews, but other country sites offer the perspectives of other reviewers. A review posted on one site is not necessarily visible on another site.
Search Inside the Book is a feature which allows customers to search for keywords in the full text of many books in the catalog.The feature started with 120,000 titles (or 33 million pages of text) on October 23, 2003. There are currently about 250,000 books in the program. Amazon has cooperated with around 130 publishers to allow users to perform these searches.
To avoid copyright violations, Amazon.com does not return the computer-readable text of the book but rather a picture of the matching page, disables printing, and puts limits on the number of pages in a book a single user can access. Amazon is planning to launch Search Inside the Book internationally. Additionally, customers can purchase access to the entire book online via the Amazon Upgrade program, although the selection of books eligible for this service is currently limited.
According to information in Amazon.com discussion forums, Amazon derives about 40% of its sales from affiliates, whom they call "Associates." An Associate is an independent seller or business that receives a commission for referring customers to the Amazon.com site.
Associates do this by placing links on their websites to the Amazon homepage or to specific products. If a referral results in a sale, the Associate receives a commission from Amazon. Worldwide, Amazon has "over 900,000 members" in its affiliate programs. Associates can access the Amazon catalog directly on their websites by using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) XML service.
Amazon was one of the first online businesses to set up an affiliate marketing program.AStore is a new affiliate product that allows Associates to embedded a subset of Amazon products within, or linked to from, another website.
According to the Internet audience measurement website Compete.com, Amazon attracts approximately 50 million U.S. consumers to its website on a monthly basis.
4.Noteworthy events:
In 2002, Amazon became the exclusive retailer for the much-hyped Segway Human Transporter. Bezos was an early supporter of the Segway before its details were made public.
On June 21, 2003, Amazon coordinated what was at the time one of the largest sales and distribution events in e-commerce history with the sale of over 1.3 million copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, since beaten by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with a sale of over 2 million copies preordered in 2007.
On July 16, 2005, Amazon celebrated its 10th anniversary by telecasting a worldwide live concert hosted by Bill Maher and artists such as Bob Dylan and Norah Jones.
5.Donations:
In 2001, Amazon was one of the first online stores to begin accepting donations to the Red Cross on behalf of 9/11 victims. For several days the company dedicated its entire home page for this cause.citation needed
In 2004, Amazon launched its Presidential Candidates feature, whereby customers could donate from US$5 to US$200 to the campaigns of U.S. presidential hopefuls, resurrecting the Amazon Honor System for the purpose. The Honor System was originally launched in 2001 as a way for Amazon customers to "tip" their "favorite Web sites and to buy digital content on the Web," Amazon collecting 2.9% of the payment plus a flat fee of US$0.30. It has never been shut down, but had fallen into relative disuse.
At the end of 2004, with the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean, Amazon set up an online donation channel to the American Red Cross using the Honor System, waiving its processing fee. As of January 3, 2005, over 162,000 individuals had donated over US$13.1 million in this way.
The same week, Amazon created similar channels for the British, Canadian, French, German, and Japanese Red Cross organizations via its international sites. Over 7,000 Britons donated more than US$350,000; 900 Canadians over US$56,000; 660 French over US$23,000; 2,900 Germans over US$145,000; and 1,900 Japanese over US$66,000.
Amazon reactivated its Red Cross donation channel when Hurricane Katrina struck at the end of August 2005. As of September 8, over 98,000 payments had been made totaling over US$10.7 million.
6.Patent use:
The company has been controversial for its alleged use of patents as a competitive hindrance. The "1-click patent"is perhaps the best-known example of this. Amazon's use of the one-click patent against competitor Barnes and Noble's website led the Free Software Foundation to announce a boycott on Amazon in December 1999.The boycott was discontinued in September 2002.
On May 12, 2006, the USPTO ordered a reexamination of the "One-Click" patent, based on a request filed by Peter Calveley. Calveley cited as prior art an earlier ecommerce patent and the Digicash electronic cash system.
On February 22, 2000, the company was granted a patent covering an Internet-based customer referral system, or what is commonly called an "affiliate program". Reaction was swift and negative. Industry leaders Tim O'Reilly and Charlie Jackson spoke out strongly against this patent and O'Reilly published an open letter to Bezos protesting the 1-click patent and the affiliate-program patent, and petitioning him to "avoid any attempts to limit the further development of internet commerce".
O'Reilly collected 10,000 signatures with this petition. Bezos responded with his own open letter. The protest ended with O'Reilly and Bezos visiting Washington D.C. to lobby for patent reform.
On February 25, 2003, the company was granted a patent titled "Method and system for conducting a discussion relating to an item on Internet discussion boards".
7.Chris Benoit DVD:
In late June 2007, shortly after the death of professional wrestler Chris Benoit, Amazon displayed a special note on search results pages for the term "WWE" “Tragic news from the WWE. Wrestler Chris Benoit and his wife and son have been found dead in their Georgia home, and police are investigating the situation as a possible murder-suicide.”
The caption was then followed by a photo and a link to purchase the Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story DVD. Amazon.com later removed the offending message after widespread complaints in the professional wrestling community
8.The Humane Society of the United States v. Amazon.com,Inc:
Amazon continues to carry two cockfighting magazines and two dog fighting videos although the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) contends that the sale of these materials is a violation of U.S. Federal law. The Humane Society of the United States has filed a lawsuit against Amazon. The HSUS is actively advising supporters to write Amazon requesting the removal of the offensive materials.
This writing campaign gained momentum in August of 2007 after the much publicized dog fighting case involving NFL quarterback Michael Vick.Some supporters are also calling for a boycott of Amazon until the animal fighting materials are removed from sale.
Amazon was founded in 1994, spurred by what Bezos refers to as his regret minimization framework, his effort to fend off late in life regret for not staking a claim in the Internet gold rush.1 It is common lore that Bezos wrote its business plan while he and his wife drove a 1988 Chevrolet Blazer from Fort Worth, Texas to Bellevue, Washington,although this story is largely apocryphal according to early employees of the company.original research?
The company began operating as an online bookstore under the name Cadabra.com (as in abracadabra), a name that Bezos quickly abandoned due to its sounding like "cadaver". While the largest brick-and-mortar bookstores and mail-order catalogs for books might offer 200,000 titles, an online bookstore could offer many times more. Bezos renamed his company "Amazon" after the world's most voluminous river.
The company was incorporated in 1994, in the state of Washington, began service in July 1995, and was reincorporated in 1996 in Delaware. The first book ever sold by Amazon.com was Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought.Amazon.com had its initial public offering on May 15, 1997, trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol amazon at an IPO price of US$18.00 per share (equivalent to US$1.50 after three stock splits during the late 1990s).
Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect to turn a profit for four to five years. In retrospect, the strategy was effective. Amazon grew at a steady pace in the late 1990s while many other Internet companies grew at a blindingly fast pace.
Amazon's "slow" growth caused a number of its stockholders to complain, saying that the company was not reaching profitability fast enough. When the Dot-com bubble burst and many e-companies went out of business, Amazon persevered and finally turned its first profit in the fourth quarter of 2002: a meager US$5 million, just 1¢ per share, on revenues of over US$1 billion, but it was important symbolically.
The firm has since remained profitable: net income was US$35.3 million in 2003, US$588.5 million in 2004, US$359 million in 2005, and US$190 million in 2006 (including a US$662 million charge on R&D in 2006). Nevertheless, the firm's cumulative profits remain negative. As of September 2007, the accumulated deficit stood at US$1.58 billion.
Revenue continued to grow thanks to product diversification and international presence: US$3.9 billion in 2002, US$5.3 billion in 2003, US$6.9 billion in 2004, US$8.5 billion in 2005, and US$10.7 billion in 2006. On November 21, 2005, Amazon entered the S&P 500 index, replacing AT&T after it merged with SBC Communications.
Time Magazine named Bezos its 1999 Person of the Year in recognition of the company's success in popularizing online shopping
Merchant partnerships
The Web sites of Borders (borders.com, borders.co.uk), Waldenbooks (waldenbooks.com), Virgin Megastores (virginmega.com), CDNOW (cdnow.com), and HMV (hmv.com) are powered and hosted by Amazon. Until June 30, 2006, typing ToysRUs.com into a browser would similarly bring up Amazon.com's Toys & Games tab; however, this relationship was terminated as the result of a lawsuit.4.
Amazon.com powers and operates retail web sites for Target, the NBA, Sears Canada, Sears UK, Benefit Cosmetics, Bebe Stores, Timex Corporation, Marks & Spencer, Mothercare, Lacoste and Bombay Company now defunct. For a growing number of enterprise clients, currently including the UK merchants Marks & Spencer and Mothercare, Amazon provides a unified multichannel platform from where a customer can interchangeably interact with the retail website, standalone in-store terminals, and phone-based customer service agents.
It also powers AOL's Shop@AOL service via Web Services technology.
The company's global headquarters is located on Seattle, Washington's Beacon Hill. It has offices throughout other parts of greater Seattle including Union Station and The Columbia Center.
2.The Product lines:
Amazon has steadily branched into retail sales of music CDs, videotapes and DVDs, software, consumer electronics, kitchen items, tools, lawn and garden items, toys & games, baby products, apparel, sporting goods, gourmet food, jewelry, watches, health and personal-care items, beauty products, musical instruments, industrial & scientific supplies, groceries, and more.
The company launched Amazon.com Auctions, its own Web auctions service, in March 1999. However it failed to chip away at industry pioneer eBay's juggernaut growth. Amazon Auctions was followed by the launch of a fixed-price marketplace business called zShops in September 1999, and a failed Sotheby's/Amazon partnership called sothebys.amazon.com in November. Although zShops failed to live up to its expectations, it laid the groundwork for the hugely successful Amazon Marketplace service launched in 2001 that let customers sell used books, CDs, DVDs, and other products alongside new items. Amazon Marketplace's main rival today is eBay's Half.com service.
Beginning August 2005 5, Amazon began selling products under its own private label, "Pinzon"; the initial trademark applications suggested the company intended to focus on textiles, kitchen utensils, and other household goods.In March 2007, the company applied to expand the trademark to cover a larger and more diverse list of goods, and to register a new design consisting of the "word PINZON in stylized letters with a notched letter O whose space appears at the "one o'clock" position." 6. The list of products registered for coverage by the trademark grew to include items such as paints, carpets, wallpaper, hair accessories, clothing, footwear, headgear, cleaning products, and jewelry.
On May 16, 2007 Amazon announced its intention to launch its own online music store.The store launched in public beta September 25, 2007, selling downloads exclusively in MP3 format without digital rights management.
In August 2007, Amazon announced Amazon Fresh, a grocery service offering perishable and nonperishable foods. Customers can pick up orders or have them delivered to their homes. Delivery is initially restricted to residents of Mercer Island, Washington, a wealthy suburb of Seattle.
3.Website:
A popular feature of Amazon is the ability for users to submit reviews to the web page of each product. As part of their review, users must rate the product on a rating scale from one to five stars. Such rating scales provide a basic idea of the popularity and dependability of a product.
The review feature is an important and highly influential function for customers and one of the main reasons for amazon.com’s success at selling books. As with book reviews anywhere, the buyer must beware that all reviewers have bias. Under normal circumstances, reviews give the reader at least a modest basis for evaluating a given book.
Because it is an open forum, the reader can benefit from a variety of perspectives. However, the anonymity of web reviewers increases the chances of abuse in the form of self-praise, praise from friends, or malicious criticism. This situation was confirmed in 2004 when the origin of reviews was accidentally made public on an amazon site, and some authors openly confirmed their glowing reviews of their own books.
Amazon provides an optional badging option for reviewers, e.g., to indicate the “real name” of the reviewer (based on a credit card) or to indicate that the reviewer is one of the “top” (most popular) reviewers. Some books have well over one thousand reviews (e.g. Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged), but many books, especially new ones, have none.
The U.S. site generally has the most reviews, but other country sites offer the perspectives of other reviewers. A review posted on one site is not necessarily visible on another site.
Search Inside the Book is a feature which allows customers to search for keywords in the full text of many books in the catalog.The feature started with 120,000 titles (or 33 million pages of text) on October 23, 2003. There are currently about 250,000 books in the program. Amazon has cooperated with around 130 publishers to allow users to perform these searches.
To avoid copyright violations, Amazon.com does not return the computer-readable text of the book but rather a picture of the matching page, disables printing, and puts limits on the number of pages in a book a single user can access. Amazon is planning to launch Search Inside the Book internationally. Additionally, customers can purchase access to the entire book online via the Amazon Upgrade program, although the selection of books eligible for this service is currently limited.
According to information in Amazon.com discussion forums, Amazon derives about 40% of its sales from affiliates, whom they call "Associates." An Associate is an independent seller or business that receives a commission for referring customers to the Amazon.com site.
Associates do this by placing links on their websites to the Amazon homepage or to specific products. If a referral results in a sale, the Associate receives a commission from Amazon. Worldwide, Amazon has "over 900,000 members" in its affiliate programs. Associates can access the Amazon catalog directly on their websites by using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) XML service.
Amazon was one of the first online businesses to set up an affiliate marketing program.AStore is a new affiliate product that allows Associates to embedded a subset of Amazon products within, or linked to from, another website.
According to the Internet audience measurement website Compete.com, Amazon attracts approximately 50 million U.S. consumers to its website on a monthly basis.
4.Noteworthy events:
In 2002, Amazon became the exclusive retailer for the much-hyped Segway Human Transporter. Bezos was an early supporter of the Segway before its details were made public.
On June 21, 2003, Amazon coordinated what was at the time one of the largest sales and distribution events in e-commerce history with the sale of over 1.3 million copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, since beaten by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with a sale of over 2 million copies preordered in 2007.
On July 16, 2005, Amazon celebrated its 10th anniversary by telecasting a worldwide live concert hosted by Bill Maher and artists such as Bob Dylan and Norah Jones.
5.Donations:
In 2001, Amazon was one of the first online stores to begin accepting donations to the Red Cross on behalf of 9/11 victims. For several days the company dedicated its entire home page for this cause.citation needed
In 2004, Amazon launched its Presidential Candidates feature, whereby customers could donate from US$5 to US$200 to the campaigns of U.S. presidential hopefuls, resurrecting the Amazon Honor System for the purpose. The Honor System was originally launched in 2001 as a way for Amazon customers to "tip" their "favorite Web sites and to buy digital content on the Web," Amazon collecting 2.9% of the payment plus a flat fee of US$0.30. It has never been shut down, but had fallen into relative disuse.
At the end of 2004, with the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean, Amazon set up an online donation channel to the American Red Cross using the Honor System, waiving its processing fee. As of January 3, 2005, over 162,000 individuals had donated over US$13.1 million in this way.
The same week, Amazon created similar channels for the British, Canadian, French, German, and Japanese Red Cross organizations via its international sites. Over 7,000 Britons donated more than US$350,000; 900 Canadians over US$56,000; 660 French over US$23,000; 2,900 Germans over US$145,000; and 1,900 Japanese over US$66,000.
Amazon reactivated its Red Cross donation channel when Hurricane Katrina struck at the end of August 2005. As of September 8, over 98,000 payments had been made totaling over US$10.7 million.
6.Patent use:
The company has been controversial for its alleged use of patents as a competitive hindrance. The "1-click patent"is perhaps the best-known example of this. Amazon's use of the one-click patent against competitor Barnes and Noble's website led the Free Software Foundation to announce a boycott on Amazon in December 1999.The boycott was discontinued in September 2002.
On May 12, 2006, the USPTO ordered a reexamination of the "One-Click" patent, based on a request filed by Peter Calveley. Calveley cited as prior art an earlier ecommerce patent and the Digicash electronic cash system.
On February 22, 2000, the company was granted a patent covering an Internet-based customer referral system, or what is commonly called an "affiliate program". Reaction was swift and negative. Industry leaders Tim O'Reilly and Charlie Jackson spoke out strongly against this patent and O'Reilly published an open letter to Bezos protesting the 1-click patent and the affiliate-program patent, and petitioning him to "avoid any attempts to limit the further development of internet commerce".
O'Reilly collected 10,000 signatures with this petition. Bezos responded with his own open letter. The protest ended with O'Reilly and Bezos visiting Washington D.C. to lobby for patent reform.
On February 25, 2003, the company was granted a patent titled "Method and system for conducting a discussion relating to an item on Internet discussion boards".
7.Chris Benoit DVD:
In late June 2007, shortly after the death of professional wrestler Chris Benoit, Amazon displayed a special note on search results pages for the term "WWE" “Tragic news from the WWE. Wrestler Chris Benoit and his wife and son have been found dead in their Georgia home, and police are investigating the situation as a possible murder-suicide.”
The caption was then followed by a photo and a link to purchase the Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story DVD. Amazon.com later removed the offending message after widespread complaints in the professional wrestling community
8.The Humane Society of the United States v. Amazon.com,Inc:
Amazon continues to carry two cockfighting magazines and two dog fighting videos although the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) contends that the sale of these materials is a violation of U.S. Federal law. The Humane Society of the United States has filed a lawsuit against Amazon. The HSUS is actively advising supporters to write Amazon requesting the removal of the offensive materials.
This writing campaign gained momentum in August of 2007 after the much publicized dog fighting case involving NFL quarterback Michael Vick.Some supporters are also calling for a boycott of Amazon until the animal fighting materials are removed from sale.
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Dare Gone Wrong
Me and my friends were filming a dare when it all went wrong! Please subscribe! thanks for watching!
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Emma Watson Compares Harry Potter & Twilight Saga
Facebook.com - Become a Fan! Twitter.com - Follow Us! Wow, is that a Twilight diss about a kiss from Emma Watson? You be the judge. We're recapping a new HP interview right now. Hi everyone. Thanks for coming back to the show, I'm Dana Ward at the ClevverTV studio. The 3 stars from Harry Potter recently interviewed with Empire Magazine giving fans a bit of info on the upcoming 2-part Deathly Hallows. Of course, they reveal that this final in the series was the most physically and emotionally demanding yet, adding that the set of a rubbled Hogwarts with corpses gallore was terrifying. It's so action-packed that, according to Daniel Radcliffe, 'you barely have a chance to catch your breath'. As far as the much anticipated kissing scene goes, apparently it's not super dramatic or anything. Emma Watson said 'it's not Twilight, you know. We're not selling sex.' Well, she just spoke up clearly, and some people are saying that this is a Twilight diss. What do you think? It's pretty known that both Harry Potter fans and Twilight devotees are quite loyal, but do you think there's enough room for both? And do you think there's any true to what Watson said about Twilight? We're just opening up a discussion here, so let us know. Thanks so much for tuning in. I'm Dana Ward and we'll see you later.
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