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Amazon is slowly starting to open up the Kindle

May 26, 2009 Hardware

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A few months back I wrote about the need for Amazon to begin ’socializing’ the Kindle.  Another item of frustration that I forgot to mention in that post was the inability to pull my notes and highlights from the kindle via the web.  I As of this morning, however, Amazon [...]

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Hey Amazon, it’s time to socialize the Kindle

February 6, 2009 Hardware

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Over the last few months, I’ve been doing a lot of reading, mostly on my Amazon Kindle.  I think it’s a great device in its current form, an will no doubt get better with the refresh that’s due out next week.  As an electronic book reader, the Kindle is definitely the [...]

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Amazon continues its cloud computing build out

November 18, 2008 Business

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With the release of CloudFront, Amazon continues to build out a full selection of cloud computing offerings.  With CloudFront even small developers can gain the power of a global content distribution network (much like Akamai).  Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, explains the service in this post:
Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront – All Things Distributed
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Tim O’Reilly discusses web 2.0 and cloud computing

October 26, 2008 Cloud Computing

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Over the last few months I’ve been asked, a lot, by some smart folks on how web 2.0 and cloud computing are defined, and what their impact will be on technology as a whole.  Since both terms are used very loosely, and often times by marketers who aren’t knowledgeable in either field, web [...]

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