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links for 2008-06-19

Links June 19th, 2008

Zoomii.com - The “Real” Online Bookstore

It’s built all using Amazon Services (EC2, S3, ECS) and it doesn’t use Flash or any other browser extension/plug-in. Neat!

(tags: amazon books ec2 s3 search shopping javascript ui ux)
PC World - Business Center: JBoss Joins Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2

JBoss Java middleware available through Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service

(tags: amazon ec2 jboss java redhat linux)

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links for 2008-06-14

Links June 14th, 2008

Borders to cut jobs as systems are overhauled

Borders is to axe an undisclosed number of jobs as it implements “fundamental change”.

(tags: amazon audible audiobooks ebooks music retail business borders books)
Massive Destruction Of Shareholder Value, Employee Morale and Internet Balance Of Power

“…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.”

(tags: yahoo google microsoft search business advertising strategy news finance internet)
Leaving Yahoo! (by Jeremy Zawodny)

“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!

(tags: yahoo people jeremyzawodny)

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links for 2008-06-13

Links June 13th, 2008

Official Google Blog: Our agreement to provide ad technology to Yahoo!

“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. “

(tags: google yahoo advertising search business)
What AT&T Doesn’t Want You To Know About The iPhone 3G–Jersey, Suburbia

“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.”

(tags: apple iphone att mobile phone)

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links for 2008-06-09

Links June 9th, 2008

Get Iceberg! Develop Custom Applications Without Coding

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…

(tags: development software web2.0 RIA tools applications programming webapps)

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links for 2008-06-08

Links June 8th, 2008

Tag Galaxy

Awesome Flash-based Flickr tag browser

(tags: flickr visualization photography search photo flash adobe)
50 Cool Things You Can Do with Google Charts API

An interesting list of uses for Google Charts

(tags: google charts api programming graphics applications web visualization statistics analytics)

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links for 2008-06-05

Links June 5th, 2008

Swish-e :: Home Page

“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…”

(tags: search web opensource content)
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Understanding Amazon Web Services

“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.”

(tags: amazon aws business cloud computing cloudcomputing technology architecture)

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links for 2008-06-03

Links June 3rd, 2008

Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

“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”

(tags: design templates ui yahoo wireframe)
Google spotlights data center inner workings | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

“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.”

(tags: architecture google infrastructure scalability hardware network server technology)
Orbis Luminum - add subtle light to the portraits and landscape photography

“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.”

(tags: photography photo software digital camera)

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links for 2008-05-30

Links May 30th, 2008

Four-way Win: How to Integrate Work, Home, Community and Self - Knowledge@Wharton

“Friedman describes the four domains of people’s lives — work, home, community and self — and what individuals can do to integrate these domains and improve their leadership skills at any stage in their careers.”

(tags: career management work home community)
Ingram has acquired the assets of Audiofy, which was supplying Ingram Digital with its audiobook platform

“Ingram Digital, an Ingram Content company focused on solutions for digital content management, hosting, distribution and promotion, today announced it has acquired the iofy digital audiobook platform from Audiofy Corporation.”

(tags: audio audiobooks audible ingram business acquisitions)

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links for 2008-05-29

Links May 29th, 2008

Jeff Bezos, Chairman, President and CEO, Amazon.com | D6 Highlights | AllThingsD

Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher interview Jeff Bezos to the D6 AllThingsD conference

(tags: amazon work bezos ecommerce online retail conference interview)
BrowserPlus

“BrowserPlus is a technology for web browsers that allows developers to create rich web applications with desktop capabilities.”

(tags: browser applications api ajax yahoo javascript development plugin webdev)

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links for 2008-05-28

Links May 28th, 2008

Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform

“Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. “

(tags: facebook platform opensource applications api opensocial socialnetworking socialsoftware)

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