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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’s S3 was down for a long stretch yesterday

July 21, 2008 Cloud Computing

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In recent months I’ve written more and more about Cloud Computing, and have been a fan of it’s most prominent tool Amazon’s S3. Well, it looks like S3 had another major failure yesterday. I didn’t notice because I spent the day away from the internet, but according to many blog posts, [...]

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Understanding Amazon’s S3

July 15, 2008 Cloud Computing

Amit Agrawal, over at Digital Inspiration, has an excellent set of posts about what Amazon’s S3 web service is all about. Check it out:
Amazon S3 Simple Storage Service – Everything You Wanted to Know
Now some people assume that Amazon S3 is a storage service meant primarily for web start-ups who store data in-the-cloud but [...]

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Amazon.com went down today, but cloud services not affected

June 6, 2008 Business

As I’m writing this, amazon.com is down.  It’s not just me, others are twittering about it. I can’t remember the last time a major site like Amazon going down. It’s been down for a while. Amazon’s cloud services seem to be working just fine, however, as my Amazon S3 account is still [...]

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