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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/002-6279035-8107262
The big consumer computing companies: Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook, are always looking for new ways to make money and/or a name for themselves. They wouldn't be big, famous and successful if they didn't do that. I use products and services from the first four every day.
Of the four, Amazon sells the greatest variety of products and therefore has a great many deliveries of physical objects and substances to my door. They are the company that has been connected to the recent publicity about delivering orders by small aerial drones. I live in a small city in a rather remote section of the country and delivery is a big deal since many products typically available in large cities are not here unless specially ordered.
Amazon is also the company that had the first electronic reader that I paid attention to, the Kindle. I did plenty of 'distance education', where the student watches tv or reads web pages or a book and answers questions to earn a grade. Most of that work was done by way of computers and electronic transmissions. So, the idea of getting a book electronically appealed to me. When I found that their system used cellphone-like methods to transmit entire books in a flash through the atmosphere to my reader, I was (and still am) enchanted.
Not all the wrinkles about rights and responsibilities have been worked out in the matter of ebooks but for the most part, I am a big fan. But these companies and others are always trying to find additional services and sources of income that work better in one way or another than competitors and traditional methods.
This morning, on the Amazon web site, I find what is to me a new service, home services, from cleaning to (seriously) goat grazing (see links above):
Home Cleaning
General Repair and Odd Jobs
Plumbing
Electrical and Wiring
Appliance Repair & Installation
General Outdoor Repair
Equipment Assembly
Gutter Cleaning
Grill Assembly
Pressure Washing
Car Stereo Installation
Tire Installation
Car Battery Installation
Backup System Installation
Car Coaxial Speaker Installation
Home Theater
Repair and Tech Support
iPhone Repair
Virus and Spyware Removal
Voice Lessons
Aerial Yoga Classes
Academic Lessons
Musical Instrument Lessons
Language Lessons
Goat Grazing Service
Singing Performance
Interior Design Project
Local Move Project
Coming soon to your area
--
Bill
Main blog: Fear, Fun and Filoz
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