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18世纪经济学家亚当•斯密(A·dam Smith)将英国称为“小店主之国”(nation of shopkeepers)时，他脑海中浮现的是实体店铺。然而，如今一种新型在线服务使得用户可以在5分钟内创建自己的网上商店，而不用备有任何存货，这可能会让斯密的说法在虚拟世界成为现实。
该网站首席执行官Jim Greer把Kongregate描述成休闲游戏的XBox生活。该网站所提供了一些网络上最能够让上瘾的休闲游戏。还记得Desktop Tower Defense吧？此外，该网上的那些休闲游戏不仅能够让用户玩，而且还能够由用户创造，以便他们共享广告收入和其它奖金
Amazon's A9 launched OpenSearch, which lets people create new columns for that search engine, letting users search anything, basing the whole thing on RSS feeds.
UnifiedRoot Inc, has developed a new way to process and maintain top level domains (e.g. .com, .net, .info, etc) - now businesses, people, and organizations alike can register their own TLD if it is available.
