{"id":2795,"date":"2004-05-27T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2021-06-03T19:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:13:06","slug":"going-around-in-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/05\/27\/going-around-in-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Around in Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/linksbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; I recently <a href=\"http:\/\/wiredblogs.tripod.com\/cultofmac\/index.blog?entry_id=324028\">found out<\/a> about a feature at Amazon called &#8220;<b>Purchase Circles<\/b>&#8221;. Amazon keeps track of purchases made from certain regions or from employees at various companies, and has compiled this information into what amounts to highly focused best seller lists. I&#8217;ve been having fun going through their list of companies, comparing employee purchases between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/browse\/-\/210259\/104-4512683-3356729\">Apple<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/cm\/browse-communities\/-\/211569\/104-4512683-3356729\">Microsoft<\/a> purchases, seeing what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/browse\/-\/212874\/104-4512683-3356729\">Ford<\/a> employees have been ordering, or what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/browse\/-\/210378\/104-4512683-3356729\">AOL<\/a> employees have gotten. Or finding out people in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/cm\/browse-communities\/-\/219290\/all\/ref=cm_pc_fav\/104-4512683-3356729\">my area<\/a> are interested in.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Usually, the top sellers are <i>The South Beach Diet<\/i>, <i>The Five People You Meet in Heaven<\/i>, and <i>The DaVinci Code<\/i>; but some of the lists are interesting. Here&#8217;s Amazon&#8217;s Purchase Circle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/subst\/community\/community.html\/104-4512683-3356729\">front page<\/a>, their list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/browse\/-\/226026\/104-4512683-3356729\">companies<\/a>, and their list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/browse\/-\/215601\/104-4512683-3356729\">US regions<\/a>.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I recently found out about a feature at Amazon called &#8220;Purchase Circles&#8221;. Amazon keeps track of purchases made from certain regions or from employees at various companies, and has compiled this information into what amounts to highly focused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/05\/27\/going-around-in-circles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions\/2796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}