Notes"The Ubuntu and Debian EC2 images published on http://alestic.com allow you to send in a startup script using the EC2 user-data parameter when you run a new instance. This functionality is useful for automating the installation and configuration of software on EC2 instances."FeedUnfurl
Notes"This project allows you to host a "private instance of S3" on top of Google's infrastructure (big table, etc), leveraging existing client S3 libraries and applications - no need to reinvent the wheel."Unfurl
Notes"Amazon EC2 Instances currently cost $0.10 USD per hour to run plus bandwidth charges (which for standard web browsing will be negligent). This gives Amazon EC2 the potential to be an incredibly cheap on-demand proxy server. Finally you only pay for what you use rather than paying an extortionate monthly rate."Unfurl
NotesDamn - I had this idea for use on my own work, if I ever got around to self-publishing. "Amazon's newly-patented System and Method for Marking Content, which calls for 'programmatically substituting synonyms into distributed text content,' including 'books, short stories, product reviews, book or movie reviews, news articles, editorial articles, technical papers, scholastic papers, and so on' in an effort to uniquely identify customers who redistribute material. "Unfurl
Notes"This is ugly for all kinds of reasons. Amazon says that this sort of thing is “rare,” but that it can happen at all is unsettling; we’ve been taught to believe that e-books are, you know, just like books, only better. Already, we’ve learned that they’re not really like books, in that once we’re finished reading them, we can’t resell or even donate them. But now we learn that all sales may not even be final. "Unfurl
Notes"Leslie Michael Orchard is a hacker, tinkerer, and creative technologist working in the Ann Arbor / Detroit, MI area. He lives with two spotted Ocicats, two dwarf bunnies, and a very patient and understanding wife. On rare occasions when spare time comes in copious amounts, he plays around with odd bits of code and writing, sharing them on his Web site named 0xDECAFBAD (http://decafbad.com/)."Unfurl
Notes"Amazon removed its customer-based reporting of adult books yesterday. I guess my game is up! Here's a nice piece I like to call "how to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code"."Unfurl
NotesI own these, but I keep forgetting what they're called. "With the Sony MDR-EX85LP you can shut out the distractions of the world with your favorite audio. These super-light earbuds give you high performance sound quality and help you enjoy your songs everywhere you go. The premium sound delivered by a 13.5mm driver combines with a soft silicon-rubber compound for great audio and hours of comfortable wearing. The closed acoustic structure blocks out most external noise, for a superior listening experience and the clearest sound reproduction possible. Whether you're going to work or class, walking to the shops or working out at the gym, you'll get stunningly rich sound quality. "Unfurl
Notes"Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon's EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. EUCALYPTUS is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain"Unfurl
Notes"You should now have an operational laconica instance using the default template. The webserver is apache2. Jabber provided by ejabberd and electronic mail courtesy of sendmail. There is also a script provided that will back up your database to s3."Unfurl
Notes"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 resourcesUnfurl
Notes"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"Unfurl
Notes"When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this."Unfurl
Notes"In a recent office action, the USPTO has rejected the claims of the Amazon.com one-click patent following the re-examination request that I filed on 16 February 2006. "Unfurl
Notes"I've been working on an Amazon S3 client in Apollo, and I finally got around to extracting the S3 library and making it its own project. I put it up on Google Code under the name as3awss3lib."Unfurl
Notes"A set of *nix like command line tools for working with s3. They are backed by a simple python library that can be used to work with the material you have uploaded to S3."Unfurl
Notes"Amazon and Google have recently shattered a common misconception: that free APIs are a commons of goodies to be built on top of for fun and profit, like open source software."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Amazon's new video-on-demand store may sound like a good idea, but once you take a look at the "agreement" you enter into by giving them your money, that changes."Unfurl
Notes"Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers."Unfurl
Notes"The Alexa Site Thumbnail web service provides developers with programmatic access to thumbnail images for the home pages of web sites. It offers access to Alexa's large and growing collection of images, gathered from its comprehensive web crawl."Unfurl
Notes"The Queued Server uses the Amazon S3 storage service as a queue to process requests from clients. Client development is done with the Google Web Toolkit and the Openfount extensions."Unfurl
Notes"For this first foray, we decided to use Mechanical Turk to verify what we created ourselvesin other words, to verify an internal database."Unfurl
Notes"List your solution in the Amazon Web Services Solutions Catalog, which is linked directly off of our web site, and also exposed within the Developer Connection. Bring visibility about your innovations to the audiences you're targeting."Unfurl
Notes"if I have a bunch of publicly accessible objects in my S3 buckets, then won't I have to pay bandwidth costs when Google/yahoo/a9 and all the other search engines go and spider my buckets?"Unfurl
NotesAmazon's Adam Selipsky discusses Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). The new web service provides pay-as-you-go data storage for web developers. More information is available today at aws.amazon.com/s3. (MP3, 5:03 mins.)Unfurl
Notes"Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web."Unfurl
Notes"I hope that is it clear from what I have written that technology evangelism is a whole lot of fun." This does sound like a fun job, though I wonder if I could be happy evangelizing just one technology.Unfurl
Notes'Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate "artificial, artificial intelligence" directly into their processing by making requests of humans.'Unfurl
Notes"...until it regularly uses fundamentally important metadata such as prices, then it hasn't really grown out of the news and weblog ghetto." I replied with a tweaked XSL to include prices in the feed.Unfurl
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