Author: Jeff Barr

Here’s a handy article, Exploiting Amazon Web Services via PHP and SQLite. The author outlines the architecture of a simple application to track and then graph the Amazon sales rank of a set of Amazon products over time. For heavy duty usage tracking, we also offer the Amazon Historical Pricing Service, also known as AHP. […]

Here’s what’s happening in the S3 world today: Dave Winer has announced that his OPML Editor now includes an API for S3 access. As Dave says, “This is the basic support required for application development, there are no end-user features in this release. Its purpose is to enable desktop apps that connect to S3.“ Jad […]

Amazon’s new S3 service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis. This is commonly called utility computing; it is totally analogous to the way in which you pay for the water, electricity, and natural gas that you use in your home. With this post I would like to make clear just how easy it is to […]

Developer activity around S3 continues at a rapid pace, and I already have enough material for another S3 roundup. Here goes: Doug Kaye, who interviewed me several years ago for IT Conversations, asks about the use of S3 as a CDN, or content delivery network. Great idea, and I will pass this post along to […]

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 […]

  Update November 9, 2021 – This post has been updated to remove broken links. 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 […]

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 […]