Here are a three interesting articles on Amazon with its Q1 earnings coming out next week (April 23rd). In particular I recommend the Fortune article which pegs Amazon’s total share of US online retailing at 6%, up from 5.1% in 2006, and gives more information on its German, UK and Japanese sites (each is about $1.5B in revenue, or 10% of total global revenue of nearly $15B) which is not something Amazon shares.

• The charmed life of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
• Amazon Takes On IBM, Oracle, and HP — distraction?
  
• Peter Gabriel to take on Amazon’s recommendations

The launch of The Filter is interesting since it has already accumulated over 50M transactions on which to base its recommendations. That is one piece where I wonder if Amazon should find a way (beyond its Webstore product) to share product recommendations outside of Amazon, and ultimately drive traffic back to the site. Maybe a recommendation catalog based on UPC or even ASIN that I can query through Amazon’s web service platform?

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