Want to buy anything online ? using Taobao

Want to buy anything online ? using Taobao
Taobao

What is taobao ?
Taobao (simplified Chinese: 淘宝网; traditional Chinese: 淘寶網; pinyin: Táobǎo Wǎng; literally: "searching for treasure website") is a Chinese website for online shopping similar to eBay and Amazon^[3] that is operated in China by Alibaba Group.
Founded by Alibaba Group on May 10, 2003, Taobao Marketplace facilitates consumer-to-consumer (C2C) retail by providing a platform for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs to open online stores that mainly cater to consumers in Chinese-speaking regions (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) and also abroad.
With around 760 million product listings as of March 2013, Taobao Marketplace is one of the world’s top 10 most visited websites according to Alexa. For the year ended March 31, 2013, the combined gross merchandise volume (GMV) of Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com exceeded 1 trillion yuan.^[6]
Sellers are able to post goods for sale either through a fixed price or auction. Auctions make up a small percentage of transactions. The majority of the products are new merchandise sold at fixed prices. Buyers can assess seller backgrounds by information available on the site, including ratings, comments and complaints.

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Tmall.com

Tmall.com offers a shopping experience for increasingly affluent Chinese consumers that offers them the opportunity to buy Western brands. According to the Alibaba Group web site, these brands include UNIQLO, L’Oréal, adidas, P&G, Unilever, Gap, Ray-Ban, Nike and Levi's). Again, according to the Alibaba Group site, Tmall.com and Taobao Marketplace set a record for highest single-day transaction volume during a special promotion on November 11, 2012, facilitating the sales of goods totaling RMB19.1 billion on the day. For the year ended March 31, 2013, the company claimed that combined gross merchandise volume (GMV) of the two platforms exceeded RMB1 trillion.

Mascot

Taobao’s mascot is an ant, which represents their corporate culture. Ma introduced Taobao to the outside world by stating, "We are the ant army." Ma once organized more than 2,000 employees at a gymnasium to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the founding ceremony. At the party, Taobao employees waved the Taobao mascot — the flag of "ants." At the end of the celebration that lasted for four hours, all the employees stood hand-in-hand, singing "If you do not experience wind and rain, you cannot see the rainbow. The ants that be organized together can beat the elephant."

Shop feedback

To thoroughly investigate a Taobao shop, a good way is to view its feedback by clicking the shop's rating icon. For Tmall.com shops, people click the stars to view their ratings. Taobao users usually spend time to read feedback and compare items of one shop with those of others.

Alipay

Launched in 2004, Alipay (simplified Chinese: 支付宝; traditional Chinese: 支付寶; pinyin: Zhīfùbǎo), an escrow-based online payment platform, is the preferred payment solution for transactions on Taobao Marketplace. It is the most widely used third-party online payment solution in China.^[16] To ensure safe transactions, Alipay uses an escrow system through which payment is only released to the seller once the buyer has received his or her goods in satisfactory condition.
According to the Alibaba Group web site, Alipay is partnered with multiple financial institutions as well as Visa and MasterCard to facilitate payments in China and abroad.

AliWangWang (TradeManager)

A distinctive feature of shopping on Taobao Marketplace is the ease of communication between buyer and seller prior to the purchase through its embedded proprietary instant chat program, named AliWangWang (Chinese: 阿里旺旺; pinyin: ĀlǐWàngWàng). It has become a habit among Chinese online shoppers to interact with the sellers through AliWangWang to inquire about products and to bargain prior to purchasing products.

Happy Taobao

In Dec. 2009, Taobao, together with Hunan TV, set up Happy Taobao, Inc for television shopping. Hunan TV launched an entertainment series called "Happy Taobao", while Taobao Marketplace created channels and independent websites.

Other services

Taobao Marketplace introduced various features and services to create a better user experience for online shoppers and retailers. For instance, in January 2010, it launched the Taobao app, created by independent developers through the Taobao Open Platform, to be downloaded by consumers in Taobao App Store.
In March 2010, it introduced the Taobao Data Cube platform, which gives small businesses access to its aggregate consumer transactions data for insight into industry trends.
In June 2010, it partnered with Wasu Media Internet Limited to launch Taohua, a digital entertainment products platform, and interactive digital television shopping, that are operated by a joint-venture formed by the two companies^.

Taobao agents

Taobao agent helps foreigners to buy products. It gathers online shoppers in China, attracted by millions of categories and Price Absolute Advantage. Shopping agent services benefit all foreign customers. Agents are fluent in many languages. Agents are particularly popular in Southeast Asia.

Chinese Singles Day

Chinese Singles Day (11/11) is China’s biggest e-commerce sales day of the year. It is larger than America’s Cyber Monday. In 2011 Taobao.com and Tmall.com took only 8 minutes to reach 100 millions RMB (equivalent to $15.8m) in transaction volume and after the day ended, transaction volume reached RMB 3.36 billion.

Taobao for Southeast Asia

In September, 2013, Taobao launched its Southeast Asian site. A translation feature is now available on Taobao.com for major languages in Southeast Asia.

Metrics

Taobao Marketplace had more than 5 million registered users as of June 2013 and hosted more than 80 million product listings. It facilitated approximately RMB 200 billion in gross merchandise volume in 2009. In September 2013, Taobao ranked 12th overall in Alexa's internet rankings. For the year ending March 31, 2013, the combined gross merchandise volume (GMV) of Taobao and Tmall.com combined exceeded RMB 1 trillion.

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Jurassic Park is simply 'a dumb monster movie': Paleontologists slam Hollywood blockbuster for its glaring errors

It seems the scientists in Jurassic Park who messed around with dinosaur DNA still haven't learned their lesson.

In the latest film, Jurassic World, genetically-engineered dinosaurs make way for a terrifying genetically-engineered hybrid, named Indominus Rex.

Chaos ensues, with the trailer showing stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard battling to deal with the aftermath.

But while the plot has won over the public ahead of tomorrow's release, there's one group of people who are less than impressed; palaeontologists.

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It seems the scientists in Jurassic Park who messed around with dinosaur DNA still haven't learned their lesson. In the latest film, Jurassic World, genetically-engineered dinosaurs make way for a terrifying genetically-engineered hybrid, named Indominus Rex (pictured)

They argue that while the film has helped renew interest in dinosaurs, the plot provides a bizarre notion of how creatures lived in the Jurassic era.

Among the most cited inaccuracies are how T-Rex can't see you if you stay perfectly still, and how Velociraptors can open doors. 

But the scientist behind the film, Jack Horner, argues that many of these criticisms are based on opinion rather than fact.  

'I would disagree with that, Raptors can open doors, they certainly have the hands and arms,' he told DailyMail.com.

'We have no idea how smart the dinosaurs were..It's just their opinion. And most animals can't identify a human being if they've never seen one, and if you stand still.'

However, James Kirkland, who has been involved in the discovery of 20 dinosaurs, takes particular issue with the film's version of raptors.

He claims Jurassic World portrays them almost as cute creatures compared with the monster fossils that he's found during digs.

'They could have made it look like they had this attacking dinosaur that was bigger than T. rex, that would intimidate the large animals these things would have normally preyed on,' he told CBS NEWS.

'They could have seriously made these guys as intimidating. It actually could have been something you actually looked at as being somewhat nice.'

It's not just the raptors. A major source of disappointment for palaeontologists is the film's depiction of dinosaurs as leathery monsters. 

Drinking too much cola could lower men's sperm count

Men who drink around a litre of cola every day could be harming their sperm, according to a new Danish study.
On average, these men's sperm counts were almost 30 per cent lower than in men who didn't drink cola.

The Danish study found soft drinks did appear to affect male reproductive healt

While most of the sperm counts would still be considered normal by the World Health Organization, men with fewer sperm generally have a higher risk of being infertile.

The link is unlikely to be due to caffeine, the researchers say, because coffee did not have the same effect, even though its caffeine content is higher. Instead, other ingredients in the beverage or an unhealthy lifestyle could be involved.
Kold Jensen, who led the new research, said only a few studies have looked at caffeine's impact on reproductive health in men. The participants have generally been a very select group, such as infertile men, and the results have been conflicting.

Because Danish youth has been upping their consumption of caffeine-containing soft drinks over the last decades, the researchers decided to study how this might affect their reproductive health.
More than 2,500 young men were included in their study. Those who didn't drink cola had better sperm quality - averaging 50 million sperm per millilitre semen - and tended to have a healthier lifestyle.
In contrast, the 93 men who drank more than one litre a day had only 35 million sperm per millilitre. However, they also ate more fast foods, and less fruit and vegetables.
When looking at caffeine from other sources, such as coffee and tea, the decrease in sperm quality was much less pronounced. 
It is still not clear if the cola or the unhealthy lifestyle, or both, is to blame and the scientists said further research was needed.

The study was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

5 Hidden Youtube Secrets

#1 Doge Meme

 Open YouTube and search for Doge Meme in search box. The search results page's fonts will be automatically converted to Comic Sans and will show text in various colors.

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 By pressing Down arrow key on your keyboard while a video is buffering, you can play the game snake

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 Open YouTube and search for Do the Harlem Shake in search box and the search results page will do the Harlem Shake. The song Harlem Shake will be automatically played on search results page which can be muted or paused by the user and videos will shake based on the beats.

#4 Use The Force, Luke

Open YouTube and search for Use the force, Luke in search box. The search results page will show the videos using Star Wars effect. You'll notice a wavy effect on search results page and everything will fly on the screen.

#5 Beam Me Up, Scotty

 Open YouTube and search for Beam me up, Scotty in search box. The search results page will show the videos list using popular Star Trek effect which looks like YouTube is beaming the videos on search results page.