#amazon (38 links)
- Amazon Has a Secret Weapon Known as "Working Backwards"--and It Will Transform the Way You Work inc.com
Over the past 25 years, Amazon has transformed itself. What began as an online bookseller has become one of the world's largest retailers. Beyond that, Amazon…
- Shopify and the Power of Platforms – Stratechery by Ben Thompson stratechery.com
- AWS in Plain English expeditedssl.com
<blockquote>Cloudflare does not translate /foo to /foo/index.html, which makes perfect sense for performance; but causes problems if you depend on the server to follow that lookup pattern.</blockquote>
- Deploying Jekyll to S3 jonknapp.com
<blockquote>How to use Amazon IAM to create a new user for deployments that has restricted access to your account to help tighten up security.</blockquote>
Not just jekyll, mind. Generic, simple S3 instructions.
- grunt-s3 github.com
A grunt task to automate moving files to/from Amazon S3.
- AWS Developer Forums: Is it possible to use .htaccess with ... forums.aws.amazon.com
Obviously not. But some ideas for using short expiry URLs as an alternative, for when clients really don't understand the "publishing things on the internets" scenario.
- Withoutabox withoutabox.com
The world's largest independent film community
While it's frustrating to think of any hosting provider cutting services to a website because it considers the content too politically volatile or controversial, it's especially disheartening to see Amazon knuckle under to pressure from a single senator. Other Internet intermediaries should now expect to receive a phone call when some other member of Congress is unhappy with speech they are hosting. After all, it worked on Amazon.
A utility for arming (creating) many bees (micro EC2 instances) to attack (load test) targets (web applications)
- Amazon S3 plugin for WordPress : tan tan noodles – msg free since 2005 tantannoodles.com
Transparently integrates with your WordPress blog. File uploads are automatically saved into your Amazon S3 bucket without any extra steps. Once saved, these files will be delivered by Amazon S3, instead of your web host.
- Cloudkick | Cloud monitoring and managment tools cloudkick.com
- Charlie's Diary: Jeff Bezos Eats Kittens antipope.org
Today's big news is that Amazon are going to start selling Kindle ebook readers world-wide. Let me explain why I think this is very bad news for writers.
Jeremy Keith's notes from Jared Spool's talk at An Event Apart Boston.
- Jared Spool: Revealing Design Treasures From The Amazon slideshare.net
Spool's excellent talk on Amazon from An Event Apart Boston.
- Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab niemanlab.org
"Journalism has been crowdsourced before, but it’s the scale of the Guardian’s project — 170,000 documents reviewed in the first 80 hours, thanks to a visitor participation rate of 56 percent — that’s breathtaking." Brilliant.
- mathusalem - Google Code code.google.com
A robust and unintrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool.
- Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Content-encoding: gzip for text files ... developer.amazonwebservices.com
No gzip on Cloudfront (yet); suggested workaround.
- Amazon CloudFront aws.amazon.com
"A web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments." Beaut.
- Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide docs.amazonwebservices.com
- SoundUnwound soundunwound.com
New music site from IMDb and Amazon; pulls data from Musicbrainz, Wikipedia and various other places.
- Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS - The easy way thomas.broxrost.com
This tutorial will take you through all the necessary steps for setting up Django with a persistent PostgreSQL database on AWS. I will be assuming no prior knowledge of AWS,
- Cory Doctorow: How comes Amazon gets it wrong on digital? | Technology | Guardian Unlimited guardian.co.uk
Amazon is ahead of the competition when it comes to selling physical goods over the web - so it is galling when the company gets it so wrong with digital downloads, says Cory Doctorow
- Digital Web Magazine - Scalable Media Hosting with Amazon S3 digital-web.com
This article walks through the steps necessary for hosting media files for your web site using Amazon S3.
- Secrets to Amazon's success - (37signals) 37signals.com
"High Scalability offers some secrets to Amazon’s success based on interviews and writings of early employees." Some great tips in here.
- Amazon.com: Homepage: Amazon Web Services aws.amazon.com
Amazon Web Services provides developers with direct access to Amazon's robust technology platform. Build on Amazon's suite of web services to enable and enhance your applications.
- Amazon.co.uk: Danceflaw: Music amazon.co.uk
Oooh look, the new Cursor Miner album is out June 5th!
- Amazon.co.uk: Books: 123 (Lift & Learn S.) amazon.co.uk
First concept, photographic books, to encourage number and language development and promote thinking and observation skills.
- PhpLondonWiki : RnibVisit2005March3 phplondon.org
Lynn Holdsworth, our RNIB web savvy demonstrator, [demolished] several well known sites like amazon.co.uk (which no one really liked anyway) and google.com (which nearly everyone liked a lot).