Author: Jeff Barr

Frucall allows consumers to get pricing and customer rating information about items they see in store by making a call from their cell phone. To use the service, simply dial 1-888-FRU-SHOP (1-888-378-7467) and enter an ISBN, EIN, or a 12-digit barcode value. Frucall will tell you the new and best used price for the product, […]

A few minutes of surfing, a scan of the S3 forum, a couple of Technorati and PubSub alerts, and a del.icio.us S3 tag brought all of the following cool S3 activity to my attention: Dave Winer wants to have a Bay Area S3 conference. That’s an interesting idea, and I’ll see what we can do […]

Adrian Holovaty is now using Amazon’s S3 to store files for his Chicago Crime site. In his recent blog post, “How I’m using Amazon’s S3 to store media files“, he describes the entire process of moving his files over. Adrian notes that it took him less than one hour to move his files over and […]

In an article in today’s New York Times, writer John Markoff says “The Internet is entering its Lego era.” John talks about the rise in componentized software, the rapid pace of development, and the all-important fact that a lot of the innovation is now taking place in small companies and by small, distributed groups of […]

I just found out about a few more cool S3 wrappers: S3Ajax – An Ajax Wrapper for S3 S33r – S3 + Rails S3Dav – a WebDAV server for S3 — Jeff;

The entries are in, the judges have spent endless hours installing and scrutinizing them, and the winners have been chosen. Based on our stated criteria (creativity, AWS service integration, commercial appeal, and fit and polish), we are proud to announce that the following developers have won: Lucy Krasilshik – My 10 Wishes – $5000 Amazon […]

Here are a few cool things that I’ve seen recently: Amazon Product Viewer Storage3 – PHP 5 Class for S3 Access Amazon Catalog Tree MySic Shopping Advisor Create Your Own Amazon Store — Jeff;

I’m a long-time Firefox fan and user, and I love to see how developers express their creativity by making interesting and useful extensions. Last week I read the new (and free) Firefox Facts ebook and discovered some cool extensions that I hadn’t previously known about. As I read the book, I realized that several of […]

Here are a few things that caught my eye while checking my Technorati watch lists: William Turkel: Mechanical Turk Does Public History Dan Grigbsby: Spam, Obscenity, and the Mechanical Turk Paul Bausch: Mechanical Turk Marie-Lynn Richard: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Program: A New Tool for Delegating? Broadcasting 2.0: Podcast Transscripts and the Mechanical Turk — Jeff;

Mike Arrington interviewed Amazon’s Adam Selipsky (VP of Web Services) and Dave Barth (Product Manager) about Amazon S3 on the TalkCrunch podcast. The interview is currently represented in the site’s RSS feed, but it is not visible on the site itself. — Jeff;