Marcel Neuhausler's World

"Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud / 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 EC2 allows you to set up and configure everything about your instances from your operating system up to your applications. An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is simply a packaged-up environment that includes all the necessary bits to set up and boot your instance."

.. I know, again Amazon, but they are doing quite fancy stuff .. I definitely have to check this out, the whole concept of deployable "AMI"s sounds pretty interesting .. technical documents can be found here ..

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Monetizing Web 2.0: "I've often complained that the business model of most companies publishing Web 2.0 APIs — even Google — is generally, 'Let's put it out there, we'll figure out how to make money from it later on.' The exception is Amazon Web Services. All its API services are designed from the outset to make money."

.. I probably repeat myself .. but I just like that business model just better than some fancy advertisement based model or some everything is free thinking .. but unfortunately that doesn't necessarily mean, that it will be successful ..

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Multi-Touch Interaction Research: "While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops"

.. definitely the UI everyone of us wants to get, everyone is dreaming of .. additional to the video on the research page above, check the video from a presentation from Jeff Han at the recent TEDTalks conference .. unbelieveable cool ..

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Welcome to Distributed Systems Engineering at Amazon.com: "Amazon.com's website is the front-end to one of the world's largest service-oriented architectures. As a member of Distributed Systems Engineering (DSE) you will push the envelope with a mixture of forward-looking and tactical projects that span Amazon's systems and push the boundaries of distributed systems for scope, size, and scale. DSE programs and teams include Data Persistence, Messaging, Discovery, Request Routing, Caching, Log Architecture, Work Flow, Rendering, Modelling and Effective Service Patterns."

.. that now looks much more professional ..

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Google challenges SourceForge in open source project hosting: "Google announced today at OSCON, the O’Reilly open source conference, that it has launched an open source project hosting site that will rival SourceForge.net. The service has been given the unglamorous name Google Code Project Hosting."

.. once again, I would say, nice try Google, but it just doesn't look finished, it definitely doesn't look like a competitor to SourceForge .. the article additionally mentions some other project hosting site named DejaVu ..

(Via Techcrunch.)

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