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Mashable - For Amazon, it's going to be hard to top 2011. After all, this was the year the gargantuan online retailer launched a cloud storage service, opened the doors on its own Appstore, and released a tablet, the Kindle Fire, that happens to be selling like crazy. Looking at the bigger picture, this was the year Amazon moved to unify its several disparate services into a full-fledged platform in its own right. The site -- though it's not just a site anymore, is it? -- already has a massive user base, and now its services are slowly turning more and more of them into something resembling loyal customers, or if Amazon's lucky, "members."