web-services
Okay, Maybe I’m the Idiot…
I’m sorry I lashed out at Steve Jobs – but I just can’t stand it when people ask me how they can upgrade their Internet to this 2.0 thing they keep hearing about… There’s just something in me that goes off at the sound of someone claiming anything is “Web 2.0.” It’s downright indefinable, as [...]
Amazon Web Services
http://live.pirillo.com/ – Most people don’t realize that Amazon has been a pioneer in the web services frontier: they have services which developers can interact with to help develop applications. S3 – the Simple Storage Service – is an expandable storage service which allows other websites to offload their storage needs to S3. So, websites can [...]
Amazon S3 Web Services Pricing
Changes are afoot: This is a note to inform you about some changes we’re making to our pricing, effective June 1, 2007. With Amazon S3 recently celebrating its one year birthday, we took an in-depth look at how developers were using the service, and explored whether there were opportunities to further lower costs for our [...]
Mechanical Turd
I don’t really wanna poop on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) program, but I have a huge problem with it: you can’t sign up to deploy the service unless you give them your bank account information first! Are we living in 1990 or something? Have they ever heard of PayPal – or a credit card, at [...]
