On the Death of Amazon’s Writing Culture - by Steve Huynh
https://alifeengineered.substack.com/p/on-the-death-of-amazons-writing-culture
AI should definitely be used for brainstorming, organizing your thoughts, research, making sure your documents are consistent, and grammar. But, as we would say at Amazon, the human should always take the pen.
What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen? | The Reinvigorated Programmer
https://reprog.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/what-does-jeff-bezos-think-is-going-to-happen/
But of course I won’t buy a new Kindle, when this one is perfectly functional. I’ll just pirate the book that I have already paid for. I will find somewhere that I can download a non-DRM-crippled copy of the book, and put it on my device that I have also already paid for.
Jeff Bezos makes brash statement about the future of popular hobby: 'It makes no sense'
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/jeff-bezos-makes-brash-statement-180000257.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/environment
As Tom's Guide reported, Bezos explained in a New York Times interview how the era of everyone having their own PC is coming to an end.
"This is what computation is like today; everyone has their own data center," Bezos said. "That's not going to last. It makes no sense. You're going to buy compute off the grid."
Postal Arbitrage
https://walzr.com/postal-arbitrage
As of 2025, a stamp for a letter costs $0.78 in the United States. Amazon Prime sells items for less than that... with free shipping! Why send a postcard when you can send actual stuff?
The Unexpected Joys Of Hacking An Old Kindle | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/24/the-unexpected-joys-of-hacking-an-old-kindle/
Make no mistake, I’m greatly appreciative of the fact that we now have mature single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi available for a reasonable cost. But taking what’s essentially consumer e-waste and turning it into a useful platform for learning and experimentation is the true hacker way. So whether you’ve got a Kindle collecting dust somewhere at home, or end up grabbing a few off of eBay for a song, I invite you to bust out the USB-serial adapter and start exploring.
Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co.
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed
Eight Sleep smart bed found to contain an exposed AWS key and a likely backdoor that allowed engineers to remotely access users' beds
How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked
https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/
I bought my first ebook from amazon
Amazon's Kindle Android app was really buggy and crashed a bunch
Tried to download my book to use with a functioning reader app
Realized Amazon no longer lets you do that
Decided to reverse engineer their obfuscation system out of spite
Discovered multiple layers of protection including randomized alphabets
Defeated all of them with font matching wizardry
Amazon Requires Ring Staff to Show AI Use to Get Promoted - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-requires-staff-show-ai-use-get-promoted-ring-2025-7?ref=brilliantcrank.com
Siminoff, in his email, said employees seeking a promotion must now describe how they have used generative AI or other AI technologies to improve customer experience or increase operational efficiency. They are also asked to cite specific AI projects they've worked on and the measurable impact achieved.
Principal Engineer Roles Framework
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/principal-engineer-roles-framework-mai-lan-tomsen-bukovec-142df/
The framework was pretty helpful for us as a team to optimize (or “force multiply” as we say in the Amazon Principal Tenets) the impact of our super awesome Principal Engineer community. We used the role framework to assess Principal Engineer engagement for our most important projects across Amazon S3/Glacier. In some cases, we changed the role of the Principal Engineer.
Storing private files on Amazon S3 with Django and giving authorised users temporary access (Phil Gyford’s website)
http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2012/09/26/django-s3-temporary.php
If you’re using Amazon S3 to store your website’s files, and you want some of them to be private, only accessible to certain users, and particularly if you’re using Django, here’s how.
AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started - W(e)blinks
https://wblinks.com/notes/aws-tips-i-wish-id-known-before-i-started/
A collection of random tips for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that I wish I'd been told a few years ago, based on what I've learned by building and deploying various applications on AWS.
AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started - W(e)blinks
https://wblinks.com/notes/aws-tips-i-wish-id-known-before-i-started
A collection of random tips for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that I wish I'd been told a few years ago, based on what I've learned by building and deploying various applications on AWS.
Add Kodi (XBMC) Icon to Fire TV's Home Screen | Sideload Fire TV
http://sideloadfiretv.com/add-kodi-xbmc-icon-to-fire-tvs-home-screen/
This tutorial will show you how to add a Kodi (XBMC) icon shortcut to the main menu. You can now access Kodi (XBMC) from the home screen. No root required. Normally, you would have to go to through the Settings menu to access the app.
Add Kodi (XBMC) Icon to Fire TV's Home Screen | Sideload Fire TV
http://sideloadfiretv.com/add-kodi-xbmc-icon-to-fire-tvs-home-screen
This tutorial will show you how to add a Kodi (XBMC) icon shortcut to the main menu. You can now access Kodi (XBMC) from the home screen. No root required. Normally, you would have to go to through the Settings menu to access the app.
The Tapir's Tale: Lambda, Javascript Micro-Services on AWS
http://anders.janmyr.com/2014/12/lambda-javascript-micro-services-on-aws.html
Amazon just released a bunch of new services. My favorite is Lambda. Lambda allows me to deploy simple micro-services without having to setup any servers at all. Everything is hosted in the AWS cloud. Another cool thing about Lambda services is that the default runtime is Node.js!
Setting Up SSL on AWS CloudFront and S3 | Bryce Fisher-Fleig
https://bryce.fisher-fleig.org/blog/setting-up-ssl-on-aws-cloudfront-and-s3/
I’ve just setup this blog using an S3 bucket as the origin server, CloudFront as my CDN, and SSL for under $10. Since there were so many articles to read along the way, I’m gathering up what worked for me all in one place.
Setting Up SSL on AWS CloudFront and S3 | Bryce Fisher-Fleig
https://bryce.fisher-fleig.org/blog/setting-up-ssl-on-aws-cloudfront-and-s3
I’ve just setup this blog using an S3 bucket as the origin server, CloudFront as my CDN, and SSL for under $10. Since there were so many articles to read along the way, I’m gathering up what worked for me all in one place.
Upload Examples (AWS Signature Version 2) - Amazon Simple Storage Service
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/HTTPPOSTExamples.html#HTTPPOSTExamplesTextArea
The following example shows the complete process for constructing a policy and form to upload a text area. Uploading a text area is useful for submitting user-created content, such as blog postings.
Web Identity Federation with Mobile Applications : Articles & Tutorials : Amazon Web Services
https://aws.amazon.com/articles/4617974389850313
This article shows how WIF can be used to give many users a "Personal File Store" all housed within a single Amazon S3 bucket without the need for any backend infrastructure.
Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS IAM Now Supports Amazon, Facebook, and Google Identity Federation
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/05/aws-iam-now-supports-amazon-facebook-and-google-identity-federation.html
Web identity federation simplifies the development of cloud-backed applications that use public identity providers such as Facebook, Google, or the newly launched Login with Amazon service for authentication.
Amazon Web Services Blog: Developer Preview - AWS SDK for JavaScript in the Browser
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/10/developer-preview-aws-sdk-for-javascript.html
Would you like to build rich, browser-based applications that make direct calls to AWS services without the need for any server-side code?
Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS SDK for Node.js - Now Generally Available
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/05/aws-sdk-for-nodejs-now-generally-available.html
The General Availability (GA) release of the AWS SDK for Node.js is now available and can be installed through npm as aws-sdk. We have added a number of features since the preview release including bound parameters, streams, IAM roles for EC2 instances, version locking, and proxies.
Mechanical Turk Workers Are Not Anonymous | Follow the Crowd
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/crowdresearch/mechanical-turk-workers-are-not-anonymous/
In fact, many workers even have a public Amazon profile page containing their real name and sometimes even a photo, at http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/workerID.
Mechanical Turk Workers Are Not Anonymous | Follow the Crowd
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/crowdresearch/mechanical-turk-workers-are-not-anonymous
In fact, many workers even have a public Amazon profile page containing their real name and sometimes even a photo, at http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/workerID.
Material Handling System Video Case Studies, Product Demonstrations, Product Information — Kiva Systems
http://www.kivasystems.com/resources/videos
This Magic Shelf is pretty much how I assumed Amazon works, but I get the sense that they're only 1/2 way there?
I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem by Terence Eden has a Blog
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/i-dont-want-to-be-part-of-your-fucking-ecosystem/
I just want us all to get along. I want my disparate equipment to talk to each other. I don't want to live in a house where ever component has to be made by the same company otherwise nothing works correctly. I don't want to be stuck using a crappy product because they're the only ones offering service X.
I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem by Terence Eden has a Blog
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/i-dont-want-to-be-part-of-your-fucking-ecosystem
I just want us all to get along. I want my disparate equipment to talk to each other. I don't want to live in a house where ever component has to be made by the same company otherwise nothing works correctly. I don't want to be stuck using a crappy product because they're the only ones offering service X.
Outlawed by Amazon DRM « Martin Bekkelund
http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/
Amazon wipes a woman's Kindle and shuts down her account. This is why I strip the DRM from every Kindle book I buy, and archive each away on my home server. And, also, why I rarely buy Kindle books.
Outlawed by Amazon DRM « Martin Bekkelund
http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm
Amazon wipes a woman's Kindle and shuts down her account. This is why I strip the DRM from every Kindle book I buy, and archive each away on my home server. And, also, why I rarely buy Kindle books.
Enabling Cross-Origin Resource Sharing - Amazon Simple Storage Service
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/cors.html
Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) defines a way for client web applications that are loaded in one domain to interact with resources in a different domain. With CORS support in Amazon S3, you can build rich client-side web applications with Amazon S3 and selectively allow cross-origin access to your Amazon S3 resources.
Hacks Bookmarklet to delete archived personal documents quickly - MobileRead Forums
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162972
when I tried to delete personal documents from the archive I realized that it is too boring to delete them one by one. Then with the help of Aei, created a bookmarklet to delete them page by page.
Introducing Syllabus, Vox Media's S3-powered liveblog platform | Vox Product
http://product.voxmedia.com/post/25113965826/introducing-syllabus-vox-medias-s3-powered-liveblog
Descriptive Camera
http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/
The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera's settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don't output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content.
Descriptive Camera
http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera
The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera's settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don't output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content.
Cutting their own throats - Charlie's Diary
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/cutting-their-own-throats.html
As ebook sales mushroom, the Big Six's insistence on DRM has proven to be a hideous mistake. Rather than reducing piracy[*], it has locked customers in Amazon's walled garden, which in turn increases Amazon's leverage over publishers. And unlike pirated copies (which don't automatically represent lost sales) Amazon is a direct revenue threat because Amazon are have no qualms about squeezing their suppliers — or trying to poach authors for their "direct" publishing channel by offering initially favourable terms. (Which will doubtless get a lot less favourable once the monopoly is secured ...)
Amazon Users Post Rave ‘Reviews’ Of UC Davis Pepper Spray | TPMDC
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/amazon-users-post-rave-reviews-of-uc-davis-pepper-spray.php
In the name of due diligence, TPM called up UC Davis to make sure we identified the same pepper spray police used on protesters last week. It’s the same brand, though the police use a 7 percent formula. It’s not clear whether this formula matches exactly what the police used.
Amazon Simple Storage Service with s3cmd
http://www.bettervps.net/manuals/2010/04/08/amazon-s3-with-s3cmd
s3cmd is a command line tool for uploading, retrieving and managing data in Amazon S3. With s3cmd we can perform other related tasks as well, such as creating buckets, removing buckets, listing objects and synchronizing directory trees.
Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/ff_bezos
Bezos runs through the features that will soon set the tech world ablaze—the $199 price tag, the easy-to-hold size, the seamless access to Amazon’s rich and growing collection of digital media. When the Fire is introduced, analysts will declare it the strongest competitor yet to the iPad. Yet the Fire is not just a rival gadget, but something essentially different. The iPad is the flagship of the post-PC era—in which the desktop is replaced by lean, portable, gesture-driven tablets. As people will learn when Amazon ships it today, November 14, the Fire is an emblem of a post-web world, in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someone’s data center.
Amazon's Kindle Cloud Reader storms into Firefox on an HTML5 chariot -- Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/amazons-kindle-cloud-reader-storms-into-firefox-on-an-html5-cha
Amazon.com warehouse workers complain about being kept outside freezing during fire alarms - Morning Call
http://articles.mcall.com/2011-11-05/news/mc-allentown-amazon-cold-20111105_1_warehouse-workers-amazon-s-lehigh-valley-warehouse-managers
Warehouse employees complained about 'freezing' for hours after alarms sounded.
You can unsubscribe to Special Offers on a K4 SO
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152428
File Conveyor — fileconveyor.org — github.com/wimleers/fileconveyor
http://fileconveyor.org
File Conveyor is a daemon written in Python to detect, process and sync files.
Designed to sync files to CDNs. Amazon S3 & CloudFront and Rackspace Cloud Files, as well as any Origin Pull CDN or FTP Push CDN are supported.
How to backup the Synology Server to Amazon S3 - SynologyWiki
http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_backup_the_Synology_Server_to_Amazon_S3
"This is a instruction guide on how to modify the Synology Server to backup files to Amazon's S3 service, an online storage space, offered by Amazon.com
To backup (synchronize) your data from your Synology box to Amazon S3, you'll need to install some additional software on your machine, like OpenSSL, wget-SSL, ruby and s3sync. This installation is detailed here. "
Amazon S3 Experiment at an end for now – Jason DeFillippo
http://jpd.me/2008/12/30/amazon-s3-experiment-at-an-end-for-now
"If I finished putting my archives on S3 it would cost me well over $200 a month. I’m not even going to get into much deep math here because all I gotta tell you is that there are 1 TB USB 2 External drives on Amazon for under $150. So I can buy a new TB every MONTH, copy a backup to it and ship it offsite and let it sit and it’s cheaper than S3"
Automate EC2 Instance Setup with user-data Scripts - Alestic.com
http://alestic.com/2009/06/ec2-user-data-scripts
"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."
baltic-avenue - Project Hosting on Google Code
http://code.google.com/p/baltic-avenue
"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."
Shell script for automated Amazon EC2 personal proxy server « Sprayfly
http://sprayfly.com/2009/06/28/shell-script-for-automated-amazon-ec2-personal-proxy-server
"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."
Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Amazon Patents Changing Authors' Words
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/28/2236235/Amazon-Patents-Changing-Authors-Words
Damn - 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. "
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others
"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. "
Amazon.com: Leslie M. Orchard: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001JS692K
"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/)."
Lexcycle has been acquired by Amazon.com! | Lexcycle
http://www.lexcycle.com/lexcycle_acquired_by_amazon
bwhitman @ variogr.am - Replacing Amazon SQS with something faster and cheaper
http://notes.variogr.am/post/67710296/replacing-amazon-sqs-with-something-faster-and-cheaper
brutal_honesty: Amazon removed its customer-based report
http://community.livejournal.com/brutal_honesty/3168992.html
"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"."
Amazon Wish Lists Are Dreadfully Insecure - kentbrewster.com
http://kentbrewster.com/amazon-wish-lists-are-dreadfully-insecure
Amazon.com: Sony MDREX85LP/BLK Soft Earbud w/ Soft Clip & Case: Electronics
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-MDREX85LP-BLK-Soft-Earbud/dp/B000PCH3FI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1237564841&s=electronics&sr=8-1
I 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. "
Eucalyptus
http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu
"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"
Jay Ridgeway - laconica ec2 image
http://jayridgeway.com/post/46565655/laconica-ec2-image
"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."
Amazon.com - Wish List
http://www.amazon.com/gp/wishlist/get-button/ref=amb_link_7140962_1?pf_rd_i=wishlist-owner-view&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=413637501&pf_rd_r=&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_t=1001
"It's the essential tool for adding items from any website to your Amazon Wish Lists."
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1434
"Create HTML POST forms that allow your web site visitors to upload files into your S3 account using a standard web browser."
Analyst says Microsoft's Yahoo bid is a ploy - MarketWatch
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/analyst-says-microsofts-yahoo-bid/story.aspx?guid={D61FED24-B3FD-41EF-AD85-CF06CAFDE3B6}&siteid=yhoof
"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
Amazon.co.uk: Matthew R. Balousek's review of Bic Crystal ballpoint pen, medium point, b...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3JWMA4M0C67TF/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
"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"
Who Wants a Kindle? | Cracked.com
http://www.cracked.com/article_15751_who-wants-kindle.html
"who the hell reads that much? This ad introduces you to the Kindle's target audience."
Amazon S3: Browser-Based Uploads using POST
http://doc.s3.amazonaws.com/proposals/post.html
"To allow developers the ability to upload content via web browsers, Amazon S3 will be releasing POST support by the end of 2007."
The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark]
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/11/19/the-future-of-reading
"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."
igdmlgd: AMAZON ONE-CLICK PATENT REJECTED BY THE US PATENT OFFICE AS A RESULT OF MY REQUEST
http://igdmlgd.blogspot.com/2007/10/amazon-one-click-patent-rejected-by-us.html
"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. "
Christian Cantrell: ActionScript Library for Amazon S3
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2007/05/actionscript_li.cfm
"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."
S3 Tools | Hanzo Archives Ltd - Web archiving and intranet archiving solutions
http://www.hanzoarchives.com/development-projects/s3-tools
"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."
O'Reilly Radar Six Basic Truths of Free APIs
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/six_rules_for_a.html
"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."
Amazon Web Services Blog: MySQL Interface to Amazon S3
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2007/04/mysql_interface.html
"Independent developer Mark Atwood has been working on a MySQL interface to Amazon S3."
Boing Boing: Amazon Unbox to customers: Eat shit and die
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/15/amazon_unbox_to_cust.html
"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."
Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon EC2 / Amazon Web Services
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011
"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."
Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Alexa Site Thumbnail / Amazon Web Services
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/104-2713105-4524705?node=236156011&redirect=true
"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."
Jon Udell: A new breed of highly-available serverless applications
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/07/20.html#a1490
"Bill Seitz alerted me to one of those footpaths the other day: Les Orchard's S3-backed wiki."
Queued Server | openfount
http://openfount.com/blog/queued-server
"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."
Amazon Web Services Blog: Openfount Queued Server
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/06/openfount_queue.html
"The server processes messages and then writes return values into another queue, where the client picks them up and displays the results."
Nodalities - Let the loose coupling take place in the cloud
http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2006/07/let_the_loose_coupling_take_pl.php
"the message queue is hosted by an open third party, Amazon's S3 Simple Storage Service."
ESV Bible Blog - Blog Archive Mechanical Turk Recap
http://www.esv.org/blog/2006/06/mechanical.turk.recap
"For this first foray, we decided to use Mechanical Turk to verify what we created ourselvesin other words, to verify an internal database."
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Your Solutions
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/solutions.jspa
"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."
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection: REST: PHP code for pre-signed URLs ...
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?start=0&threadID=10726&tstart=0
URLs to private S3 assets with pre-signed query string requests that expire within 15 minutes of issue.
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection: Please read if you access Amazon S3 ...
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=10745
"Amazon S3 will soon be updated with new functionality that changes the significance of the HTTP Host header in REST requests. "
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection: Will I have to pay for ...
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=38305&tstart=0#38305
"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?"
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection: What is "content-md5"? ...
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=37432&tstart=0#37432
"Looks like you're computing the digest correctly, but you're hex encoding the result instead of base64 encoding it."
Web Service "Amazon S3" Gives Developers Simple Data Storage
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9970/ddj060315dc/ddj060315dc.mp3
Amazon'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.)
Dave's Wordpress Blog - Blog Archive Amazon S3 in the OPML Editor
http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/04/06/getting-started-with-amazon-s3-in-the-opml-editor
"Thanks to Les Orchard for getting us started with a tool for the OPML Editor that has basic support for the Amazon S3 interface."
The Other 10 Percent » Blog Archive » BitBucket - Experimenting with Amazon S3 Service in Python
http://www.other10percent.com/?p=15
Mapping Amazon's S3 service to a Pythonic Dictionary interface
Backing Up Flickr Photos with Amazon S3 at Matt Croydon::Postneo 2.0
http://www.postneo.com/2006/03/22/backing-up-flickr-photos-with-amazon-s3
"After uploading 160 or so photos to Amazon, I owe them about a penny."
Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon S3 / Amazon Web Services
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/104-3738331-5415167?node=16427261
"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."
Jeff Barr’s Blog » A Few Words on Technology Evangelism
http://www.syndic8.com/~jeff/blog?p=414
"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.
Amazon Mechanical Turk
http://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=whatis
'Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate "artificial, artificial intelligence" directly into their processing by making requests of humans.'
floating atoll: Contribution: My Amazon Wishlist RSS feed
http://www.crystalflame.net/2003/02/contribution_my.html
Eightlinks - Features: Wishlist RSS Feed Generator
http://www.eightlinks.com/features/000234.html
Amazon's RSS feeds show up the format's current weaknesses
http://www.davidgalbraith.org/archives/000619.html
"...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.
python code for accessing Amazon wishlists
http://www.chompy.net/amazon