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Evangelists Gone Wild – Speaking Engagements for November, 2006
Isabel Wang’s cool post reminded me that I need to update the speaking engagements calendar. This is what we have planned so far: November 1st – San Jose, California – Zend/PHP Conference and Expo November 2nd-3rd – Mountain View, California – Startup Camp November 7th – San Francisco, California – Web 2.0 November 7th – […]
Read MoreLinden Lab: Amazon S3 For The Win
Woke up this morning to find an awesome post from Linden Lab, creator and operator of Second Life. In an article titled “Amazon S3 For The Win,” developer Jeff Linden describes how they used Amazon S3 to buffer the crushing blow of downloads that they had previously suffered every two weeks when they released a […]
Read MoreThis guy really likes the Mechanical Turk
Ok readers, let’s make this guy a star: Of course, this video was itself the product of a Mechanical Turk HIT that paid $8 to the star. If you would like to star in a video of your own, there are some $10 “Make a 5 Minute Movie” HITs in there right now (that link […]
Read MoreSlideshare – Upload and Share Slideshows
This has been the pseudocode for my day so far: while (Cool AWS Stuff In Inbox){ Read About It Visit It Take A Picture Blog About It Delete Email} Today’s newest find is Slideshare.net, a site for storing and sharing slide shows, powered by Amazon S3. The slides are served […]
Read MoreGame System Wars
One of the interesting and common threads found in the creative applications built with the Amazon Web Services is the fact that they can take data that’s been laying out there in plain sight for a number of years and turn it on its side (so to speak) to provide a whole new look at […]
Read MoreiSearchBetter – Find New Products Eligible for Amazon Prime Shipping
iSearchBetter simplifies the process of finding new products that are eligible for Amazon Prime shipping. As the site says: “Try it out: I think you’ll agree that I search Amazon better than they do.” — Jeff; Update: Now with links! Thanks Jeremy.
Read MoreZettabyte Storage zBox
Astute readers of this blog will notice that I have added Hardware as a new category! The zBox is a new storage device from Zettabyte Storage. A zettabyte is either 1021 or 270 bytes of storage, not that the exact amount really matters at that point. The zBox is offered as part of a complete […]
Read More7 Easy Steps to Building Your Idea Around Amazon Web Services
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 […]
Read MoreSend in Your Clowns
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 […]
Read MoreLots of Good Stuff!
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: […]
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