Where is the customer reviews for Amazon as a company?
Customer Reviews: Great Book I started reading The Long Tail straight after reading “Why The World Is Full of Useless Things” by Steve McKevitt which was published last year. These are two great books to read together offering a much broader analysis than they do on their own. I think we’ve got it in ourselves to move into a more ethical way of being – and the potentially limitless… When Variety Costs Little More, People Enjoy Having More of It When you want to eat ice cream outside your home, do you go to a store that offers only chocolate and vanilla . . . or do you go where there are many more choices? Most people will do the latter. That’s the basic point of this book. If you’re satisfied with knowing that point, you don’t need to read the book. Instead, you could settle for Mr. Anderson’s article in the… By Professor Donald Mitchell “Jesus Makes Me a P… (Boston) – See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) When you want to eat ice cream outside your home, do you go to a store that
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) has seen its market value surge by more than 30% to a record high over the past two weeks, but at least one analyst believes the market still isn’t fully valuing the company’s potential. Jeff Lindsay of Bernstein Research upgraded Amazon to an outperform, or buy, rating on Friday, and boosted his price target to $160–the highest target on Wall Street for the stock, which has jumped significantly since reporting its third-quarter results. That gave the stock another lift on Friday. Amazon shares were recently up 4.3% to $125.76. “We believe that the company’s unique and differentiated attributes have shown their value once again by enabling Amazon to reaccelerate revenues much sooner than expected coming out of the economic downturn,” Lindsay wrote in a note to clients. On Oct. 22, Amazon reported a surprise 69% growth in third-quarter profit. The company said it saw an improvement in sales across all its product lin
Like many negative Amazon reviews, some detractors of this book seem to object to the fact that it is this book and not something else. In this case they may not be entirely unfair. If you are looking for advanced techniques in web design you won’t find them in Garrett’s book. If, however, you are looking for a good framework for thinking about design strategy–for your own thinking, for explaining things to clients, or for students–you will find this book indispensable. It is short, sweet, and straightforward. Whether that’s good news of bad is something each reader will need to decide. Some complain that The Elements of User Experience does not go deeply enough into a range of user experience issues. This may partially be the fault of the author and the publisher. The value of this book goes well beyond web projects and the “user experience” world. Much of it applies to a variety of design projects. If I were to make a major objection to the book it is not that it is too shallow but
Filed at 10:22 pm, Friday January 16th 2009 by Arlen Parsa Update: Belkin’s president responds to The Daily Background’s report here. (Update: Welcome to Slashdot, Digg, Engadget, Gizmodo readers! The latest is, I’ve heard from Belkin’s public relations department and I am expecting a formal comment to come out from them relatively soon, so stick around as this thing develops.) I know I usually don’t write about consumer advocacy stuff, but I came across this just recently and it’s pretty beyond the pale and I couldn’t let it go without blogging about it. Here’s the scoop. Amazon.com runs a side business called Mechanical Turk. It’s a site where people can go, register, and get paid to do little tasks that computers can’t do (like help image filtering software identify graphic search results for example). Users can do any one of thousands of tasks provided by requesters, who pay them a small amount of money in return (usually anywhere betw
Like to share your opinion? From its beginning, the Internet has been an ideal place to harangue, lecture, pontificate, and otherwise broadcast personal opinions, experiences, problems, solutions, and other adventures. With the broad availability of the Web came even more convenient options for obtaining and posting personal opinions and evaluations. This capability combined with users’ desire to share their opinions on a wide range of products and services has led to the creation of many product assessment sites. Now anyone with Web access can rate and review their favorite service or most despised product. Consumer evaluations have been an important information resource for years. Consumer Reports and similar publications have shown the demand for such comparisons, especially unbiased comparisons. Yet any market researcher will quickly point out the extreme difference in accuracy and quality between the evaluation techniques used by the Consumer’s Union and that of most Internet-base
