Author: Jeff Barr

Amazon Web Services Evangelist Jinesh Varia just posted a really nice article on codeproject.com. The article documents Jin’s implementation of an idea that he and I discussed shortly after he joined my team earlier this year. Building upon the concept pioneered by the seemingly defunct Usenix Faces project the application in this article shows how […]

A recent HIT posted on the Amazon Mechanical Turk asked workers to draw a clown… Taken at face value (so to speak) as a collaborative art project this is very similar to The Sheep Market, and it produced results that were colorful and entertaining. However, behind all of the pretty faces there’s something even more […]

A few of the cool things that I have sitting in my inbox today: Mechanical Turk API in PHP – “PHP implementation of the Amazon Mechanical Turk API, allowing any PHP application to access the mTurk system and perform all available actions.“ Dave Winer: It’s an S3 Tuesday – “S3 is truly useful.” John Eberly: […]

Jeremy Zawody followed up on his promise to use Amazon S3 for backup by compiling a list of S3 Backup Tools. The article itself is very helpful, but there’s also a lot of good information in the comments. At this point Jeremy is in the process of enumerating and examining the alternatives. I’m sure that […]

Earlier today Jeff barr told me that he uploaded all his photos to amazon S3 using S3Fox Organizer. S3Fox Organizer, developed by Rahul Jonna, is a firefox extension for managing your objects in Amazon S3. We had blogged about it earlier. Motivated by the number of hits he received, Rahul released a new version (v0.3) […]

Amazon Web Services has a number of evangelists, as previously noted, so I’d like to introduce myself (Mike Culver). Last night I had the opportunity to deliver the first in the series of presentations that Jeff recently announced. We had a near-record turnout of the Winnipeg .NET Users Group, with approximately 60 developers in attendance. […]

Hiya, I am Jinesh Varia! This is my first blog post on the AWS blog. Its so cool to be an evangelist, travel around, talk about what cool things people are building and most importantly talk about what cool things YOU can build. Nowadays, Anything and everything that has a high “coolness-factor” gets immediate attention […]

Superstar developer John Krystynak  (he also built Texsy and Aytozon) dropped me a little “by the way” about his latest creation, the Amazon Prime Finder. Amazon Prime, for those of you who don’t know, is our “all you can eat” (or read, or listen to) shipping plan. After payment of an annual fee, all of […]