27 days ago
wearehugh : We Know How Many Kindles Amazon Has Sold: 240,000 - take it with a grain of techcrunch
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1 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: "Travellers Back in Time" - I collected all the fiction mentioned in the Kottke and Marginal Revolution posts about "How would you survive if you travelled back to 1000AD?" and made them into an Amazon Listmania list.
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1 month ago
nelson : Amazon S3 postmortem - Nicely detailed writeup of what went wrong
Simon Willison : Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008 - Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008. Don’t let the newspeak put you off; this is an honest and informative description of the bug that took down S3 last Sunday, although it does include the world’s longest way of saying “we turned it off a
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1 month ago
Rod Begbie : Amazon.com - Universal Wish List Button - Bookmarklet that lets you add items from any online store to your Amazon.com wishlist. [via] #
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1 month ago
deusx : Amazon.com - Wish List - "It's the essential tool for adding items from any website to your Amazon Wish Lists."
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2 month ago
joshua : Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore - a zoomabe zui for amazon
Andy Baio : Zoomii, bookstore-like interface for browsing Amazon - Google Maps-like controls for zooming and panning the shelves [via]
Rod Begbie : Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore - Whizzy Amazon-browsing UI, for those who like to judge books by their covers. [via] #
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2 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.com: "Revolutions and State Collapse" - I love this Listmania list, especially the first part of it with comments. Saw it ages ago but didn't save it at the time.
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2 month ago
deusx : Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms - "Create HTML POST forms that allow your web site visitors to upload files into your S3 account using a standard web browser."
Simon Willison : Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms - Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms. I didn’t know you could do this: create a regular HTML form that gives people permission to upload direct to your own S3 bucket, using a signed JSON policy statement in a hidden form field to prevent third
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon | The three survivors - but it “put them in the curio cabinet” without transforming the company, says Jerry Michalski, a technology consultant. Yahoo! was “so bent on being the future”, he says, that it “missed the new”.
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3 month ago
bmilleare : FuseOverAmazon - s3fs - Google Code - s3fs has come a long way since I last used it!
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4 month ago
joshua : Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage
bmilleare : Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage - Awesome write-up for preperation of persistent storage on AWS
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4 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: "physics for beginners, and the maths that goes with it" - Problem: How do I find time to learn stuff like this when I need to know stuff like this before I can expand time enough so I have time to learn it?
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5 month ago
Simon Willison : Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes - Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes. You can store a snapshot of a storage volume to S3 with a single API call, making backups trivial.
Jeremy Zawodny : Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes - Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes: good to hear how well baked this appears to be
bmilleare : Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes - This is potentially game-changing in the cloud computing dept.
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5 month ago
plasticbag : Gramophone's recommended recordings gives you a quick and easy way to find out which version of a piece of Classical music you should buy - And then you can go straight over to Amazon MP3 to buy it. If you're in the US that is.
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : Ten Thousand Cents - Mechanical Turkers reconstruct a $100 bill using custom drawing tools for 1 cent per drawing [via]
nelson : 10,000 cents - Mechanical Turk art project to recreate a $100 bill
Rod Begbie : Ten Thousand Cents - Mechanical Turk project where users were paid $0.01 to draw a section of the $100 bill. [via] #
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nelson : Hadoop + EC2 + S3 = NYT PDF - Nice breakdown of how to use cloud computing services to do a large scale rendering job
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Andy Baio : Political contributions from tech companies - Google loves Obama, Microsoft loves Hillary, and Yahoo! employees hang on to their money [via]
nelson : Tech employee campaign contributions - Goldman breaks down the numbers for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc employees. Amazon sure loves their Libertarian nutjob.
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7 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Analyst says Microsoft's Yahoo bid is a ploy - Analyst says Microsoft's Yahoo bid is a ploy: "Bid designed to keep Yahoo from deal with Amazon.com, report says" hahaha... someone needs a tin foil hat!
deusx : Analyst says Microsoft's Yahoo bid is a ploy - MarketWatch - "Bid designed to keep Yahoo from deal with Amazon.com, report says." Now, there's a merger I wouldn't absolutely hate, given Amazon's developer resources
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8 month ago
Rod Begbie : SimpleDbIntro - boto - Google Code - My SimpleDB account got enabled yesterday, so I'm looking forward to getting stuck into it. This looks like a handy Python library for accessing it (and the other Amazon Web Services) #
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8 month ago
Rod Begbie : Amazon.com: HD DVD will still win - Fantastic reading: HD-DVD fanboys in denial on Amazon discussion boards. #
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8 month ago
plasticbag : Bizarrely, Amazon.com has an "I Love Bram Cohen" T-shirt for sale! - Weird when this happens to people you've met. If you're not familiar with the name, Bram created BitTorrent.
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8 month ago
Simon Willison : Eventually Consistent - Eventually Consistent. Werner Vogels explains the trade-offs involved in building scalable, highly-available data stores such as Amazon’s SimpleDB.
jcgregorio : Eventually Consistent - All Things Distributed
joshua : Werner Vogels on Eventually Consistency - design considerations for distributed databases
nelson : Eventually Consistent - Werner breaks down some distributed system design choices
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9 month ago
deusx : Amazon.co.uk: Matthew R. Balousek's review of Bic Crystal ballpoint pen, medium point, b... - "I saw in the corner of my eye my faithful notebook, which now lay on the ground. Once unmarred, I saw now the small mark which I had made with the devil's own pen"
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9 month ago
nelson : SimpleDB analyzed - Ryan explains what Amazon's SimpleDB really is
Andy Baio : Ryan Barrett's thoughts on SimpleDB - still catching up from my NYC trip, this was the best writeup I've seen so far
Jeremy Zawodny : Amazon SimpleDB thoughts - Amazon SimpleDB thoughts: a good overview of Amazon's SimpleDB service
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9 month ago
nelson : Eventual consistency - Simpledb's writes take several seconds to commit. That seems crippling to me.
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