NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Askville

Askville is a user-driven research site run by Amazon.com. Unlike the recently defunct Google Answers service, Askville is designed to run much like a computer game. A user gains points, in the form of coins, by asking and answering questions, and by voting on the worth of an answer. The user can then use these coins as rewards, to obtain more coins or to exert voting influence on the answers. These coins are promised to also be able to be used on the forthcoming Amazon.com Questville site. Amazon. ... Google Answers is an Internet search and research service offered for a fee by Google, answer brokering. It was launched by Google in April 2002, and went out of Beta in May 2003. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ...

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Google Answers is an Internet search and research service offered for a fee by Google, answer brokering. It was launched by Google in April 2002, and went out of Beta in May 2003. ... Guru. ... Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo! on December 13, 2005 that allows users to ask and answer questions posed by other users. ... MetaFilter, known as MeFi to its members, is a community weblog whose purpose is to share links and discuss interesting websites. ...

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People: Jeff Bezos | Rick Dalzell | Brian Valentine
Websites: A9.com | Alexa Internet | Askville | CDNOW | Internet Movie Database | Joyo.com | Mobipocket
Services: Amazon E-Commerce Service | Amazon Marketplace | Amazon Mechanical Turk
Other: Amazon Fishbowl | Amazon Standard Identification Number | Statistically Improbable Phrases
Annual Revenue: $10.71 billion USD (2006) | Employees: 13,900 (2006) | Stock Symbol: NASDAQ AMZN | Website: www.amazon.com Amazon. ... Jeff Bezos on the cover of TIME as Person of the Year 1999 Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon. ... Rick Dalzell - Senior Vice President, Worldwide Architecture & Platform Software, and Chief Information Officer Mr. ... Brian Valentine is an American technology executive who is currently the Senior Vice President, Ecommerce Platform at Amazon. ... Screenshot of the home page A9. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Cdnow is a division of Amazon. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about motion pictures, actors, movie stars, TV shows, TV stars, production crew personnel, as well as video games. ... Joyo. ... Mobipocket. ... Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS), also known as Amazon Web Services or AWS, is a web service and application programming interface (API) accessible via either the SOAP or REST protocols. ... Amazon Marketplace is Amazon. ... The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a beta web service by Amazon. ... Amazon Fishbowl is a talk show produced by and available exclusively on Amazon. ... The Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) is a product identification number used by Amazon. ... Amazon. ... Image File history File links Green_Arrow_Up_(Darker). ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory[1], the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ...

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