links for 2008-06-26
June 26th, 2008
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“Werner Vogels, vice president and CTO at Amazon, is talking about why Amazon is in the cloud computing business, how it got there and why customer should want it.”
links for 2008-06-25
June 25th, 2008
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“Jiffy—an end-to-end system for instrumenting your web pages, capturing client-side timings for any event that you determine, and storing and reporting on those timings. You run Jiffy yourself, so you aren’t dependent on the performance characteristic
links for 2008-06-24
June 24th, 2008
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“It’s dangerous to treat your bike as a mechanical mystery. Keeping your bike in good condition, well-tuned and well-maintained, makes you a safer biker.”
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“The top 100 advertisers in the U.S., who represent 41 percent of total advertising spending, shifted about $1 billion last year from TV and newspapers to the Web.”
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“AOL is now offering developers who create applications using the Open AIM API the opportunity to make money. AIM Money is a new revenue-share platform where developers profit from ads they embed into their Open AIM applications.”
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“SmugVault adds safe storage of other file types, such as RAW, TIFF, PDF, PSD—almost any files you can imagine. Including videos. Even Word and Excel files.”
links for 2008-06-20
June 20th, 2008
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My Born shoes have cracked a sole again. As my wife blogs, “Are these shoes designed to only last 6 months? Ridiculous. I won’t even bother contacting the company this time. But really, we are done with Born shoes.”
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I’ve been thinking about getting a Kindle for my wife (seriously;-) Seth has some great observations (as usual) “I got a Kindle. It’s a fascinating device, unlike almost any other launched by a significant tech company. Here’s why…”
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“a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications…suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing.”
links for 2008-06-19
June 19th, 2008
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It’s built all using Amazon Services (EC2, S3, ECS) and it doesn’t use Flash or any other browser extension/plug-in. Neat!
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JBoss Java middleware available through Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service
links for 2008-06-14
June 14th, 2008
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Borders is to axe an undisclosed number of jobs as it implements “fundamental change”.
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“…a massive sell off of Yahoo stock began – the company lost billions in market valuation over the course of the next hour as the market made it’s bets on the news.”
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“And, by all means, don’t take the stuff you read in the press at face value. You’re all smarter than that.” — Good luck Jeremy and I’ll take your advice!
links for 2008-06-13
June 13th, 2008
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“a non-exclusive advertising agreement that will provide Yahoo! with access to our AdSense for search and AdSense for content advertising programs on their U.S. and Canadian web properties. “
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“What AT&T doesn’t want you to know, is that their 3G HSDPA networking service is only available for a select amount of metropolitan areas. I mean, this thing is very, very limited.”
links for 2008-06-09
June 9th, 2008
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Hmm, I’m always skeptical of claims like this: “With Iceberg, any user can create a web application using its simple, DIY tools.”, but it’s worth a try…
links for 2008-06-08
June 8th, 2008
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Awesome Flash-based Flickr tag browser
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An interesting list of uses for Google Charts
links for 2008-06-05
June 5th, 2008
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“A free open source system for indexing collections of Web pages or other files.. ideally suited for collections of a million documents or smaller… can index plain text, e-mail, PDF, HTML, XML, Word/PowerPoint/Excel…”
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“For Amazon, running a cloud computing service is core to its business in a way that it isn’t for, say, IBM, Sun, or HP.”
links for 2008-06-03
June 3rd, 2008
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“Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following topics”
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“To operate on Google’s scale requires the company to treat each machine as expendable. Server makers pride themselves on their high-end machines’ ability to withstand failures, but Google prefers to invest its money in fault-tolerant software.”
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“The Orb controls the mixture between Landscape and Portrait processing and between smooth and texture enhanced output. Underneath is our proprietary algorithm that does the rest.”
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