Website Amazon.com is the largest retail sites in the world, who started his business with the wheels just to sell books online, but now touches every aspect of things ranging from DVDs, clothing, web hosting up to CDN (Content Delivery Networks).
Amazon.com, Inc.. founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and in the online in June 1995.Jeff Bezos wrote its own bussiness plan / dream company's business plan and chose Seattle as a place to start a business because it is easier to find IT staff at that time.
The company was originally named Cadabra, Inc., but people often mistaken hears it as 'Cadaver' (corpse / carcass). Amazon name chosen because the Amazon River is the largest river in the world that symbolizes the huge size and also because of the name begins with the letter "A" that appears at the beginning of alphabetical order.
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In the early days of amazon.com, the company worked from home garages Jeff Bezos in Seattle with a table that was made from a used door. Amazon not to stock the book at that time but they work with publishers who will send the book when there is a request to amazon then amazon will send the book back to the buyer.
In the first month of the launch site amazon.com, amazon serve requests from 50 states and 48 countries and now it is the only book amazon.com product.
Nick Hanauer is the first investor who believes in the idea of Jeff Bezos and invest money as a capital of $ 40,000. And when the first amazon.com online, this site does not look as attractive now. His site looks very plain and unattractive to most people, and when Tom Alburg interested amazon.com mengivestasikan $ 100,000 to help the company to create a site that is more interesting and better hosting capabilities. In 1997, Amazon became a public company that first opened at $ 18 and the stock price jumped to $ 24 in a day.
Amazon.com Product
1) Amazon's BookSurge
Amazon's BookSurge is a business book, which gives publishers the ability to distribute material although it has had a relation, a leading retailer and distributor. BookSurge operational in April 2005.
2) Amazon EBS
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2. Amazon EBS is suitable for applications that require a database, file system, or access to raw block level storage. Released to the public on August 21, 2008.
3) Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud Method) virtual server functions provide services at low prices. Together with Amazon's virtual storage product S3, EC2 works together to provide the data storage space. data storage. Examples are Pownce and Justin.tv are using EC2. Here the user only pays the amount used. Examples of each hour is $ 0.10 and there is no minimum fee.
4) Amazon Elastic Map Reduce
Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is a web service that allows businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively to process large amounts of data. Using Amazon Elastic MapReduce users to perform applications such as web indexing, data, log file analysis, machine learning, financial, scientific simulations, and bioinformatics research.
5) Amazon Fresh
Amazon Fresh is a food delivery service that ordering is done online. Amazon Fresh is now highly developed in the Seattle, Washington area.
6) Amazon Kindle
Introduced to the public in November 2007Kindle is an e-reader developed Amazon.com. Books, newspapers, books, newspapers, magazines and blogs are taken to a wireless device through Amazon for free EVDO network (called Whispernet) and published in a proprietary format for the Kindle.
7) Amazon Amazon's Kindle 2
Kindle 2 ebook reader is a cell phone. Published on 9 February 2009. February 2009.This product uses 3G wireless technology.
8) Amazon Kindle DX
Amazon Kindle DX is a version of the Kindle, which was released in May of 2009. DX has a larger screen size than the previous Kindle versions.
9) Amazon S3
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online storage service for developing companies. Data can be stored or retrieved through a simple web interface from any computer and can be done at any time.
10) Amazon Unbox
Amazon Unbox video is a video service, and only available in the United States.
11) Amazon Video on Demand
Amazon Video on Demand is a streaming video services for television and film. At the launch in July 2008, more than 40,000 film and television has been available here.
12) Amazon Web Services
Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. You can request AWS computation power, storage, and other services to gain access to the elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them.
With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development program or making the most suitable model for the problem you're trying to solve. You only pay for what you use, with no up front costs or long-term commitment, so it aws cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients. And, with AWS, you can take advantage of Amazon.com 's global computing infrastructure, that is the backbone of Amazon.com' s $ 15 billion retail business and transactions company that is scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been for over 13 years .
13) Mechanical Turk
Amazon's Mechanical Turk is crowd source a service that allows developers and companies to get people to do a small amount of work that a computer can not do very easily. Amazon's service market as Artificial Intelligence, because the user can use to get a similar result with a very difficult to implement / create artificially intelligent machines. Humans are still very superior to computers in many realms. Identify the context in the image to tag can be done quickly by humans, but not at all by the computer.
Mechanical Turk aims to make great and easy to assemble, simple to accomplish tasks that would otherwise be nearly impossible to complete given their overall volume.Mechanical Turk can be used to mark the millions of images in accordance with the label rather than hiring temporary workers for example. It can also be used for large text has been translated into different languages.
In this latter case there is a clear need for qualified workers. Amazon has been taken into and allows the company to put prospective employees through a test to see if they are qualified. The company also has access to the work history of each worker so they can narrow down their choices even more. With this move, the company should be able to get on their demand for labor by just defining human intelligence task (HIT) through Mechanical Turk and a set wage per job. Amazon will require a 10% cut.
References:
http://www.artikelkomputer.net/2011/01/sejarah-amazoncom-amazon-sejarah.html
http://yosevasilaen.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/e-crm-di-perusahaan-profit-www-amazon-com/
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