Author: Jeff Barr

I’ll be traveling to Europe next month to speak at several conferences and user groups. Here’s my itinerary: On May 16th and 17th I will be chairing and speaking at the IQPC Best Practices in Service Oriented Architecture Conference in London. As chair I will get to deliver the opening and closing remarks. As a […]

I’ve got a bunch of cool stuff queued up, so here goes: Over at TechCrunch, Mozes (powered by ECS) got a nice writeup. There’s even more at MobileCrunch. The Top Sites List uses the Alexa Web Information Service to report on top sites globally, and per-country. Tic-Tap Web Search is new and cool. It mashes […]

This is my 300th post to this blog, and I’ll celebrate by posting a veritable potpourri of interesting items. In a rare self-congratulatory note I will observe that we are the first entry on the Fortune 500 Business Blogging List. Priceheat is a one-click Amazon price-checker bookmarklet. Mark O’Neill talks about Security for REST Web […]

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 […]

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