Amazon is now offering Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This goes along with other service offerings. I really like the business strategy statement in the the Amazon 2005 annual report but the service part seems kinda just tacked on:
Our business strategy is to relentlessly focus on customer experience by offering our customers low prices,
convenience, and a wide selection of merchandise, to provide e-commerce solutions and services to other
businesses and to offer web services applications to developers.
(my emphasis)
They offer services but (via Amazon Web Services Licensing Agreement):
AMAZON WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOST DATA, BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED PROFITS. CERTAIN JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES, AND SO SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
But don’t worry if you die or get personally injured:
THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY DOES NOT APPLY TO LIMIT AMAZON’S LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY TO THE EXTENT ONLY THAT IT ARISES AS A RESULT OF THE NEGLIGENCE OF AMAZON OR OF ITS EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES.
Amazon continues to offer cool services to developers at affordable prices. So check out Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
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“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.
I really like the Google finance visualization. On the other hand Google analytics could be greatly improved. Coda Hale did a great analysis and offers some suggestions. Google has a talented team of people who did the Finance visualization, I agree with Coda Hale, have them do Google analytics.
When I first saw Google Finance I thought that they hired Edward Tufte. Who ever did finance should be doing all data visualization for Google.
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It means that you can create a physical workspace that supports your style of thinking and your approach to action, rather than having it be a purely aesthetic artifact of, say, your OCD or your secret fetish to work in an operating theater. Most importan
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“I’ve been giving it great deal of thought, and I came up with a reasons pointing to the likelihood that Windows is at greater risk of catastrophic attacks. It’s not easy reading, but it was either this dense packing or a book-length blog post.”
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In March 2005, I decided to take an in-depth look at languages for the Java Virtual Machine. I wanted to write a small application that would give me a “real” feel for the languages. I wound up picking a classic game called Sokoban and implementing it in
Transparency (context) + Disclosure (motivation) + observable Behavior (integrity) = Trust
Trust + Time = Reputation (measure of trust over time)
Identity and community are constraints on on both all variables.
To hear an interesting discussion on trust listen to the Trust Gang
Links:
Gillmor Gang RSS feed
I was reading Dave Winer’s Scripting News when I came to the post linking to an explanation of redirects. It was fitting that I read the article as I prepare to migrate to FeedBurner feeds. It reminded me of a bit of time I spent figuring out HTTP. I have to say reading the HTTP spec is a bit dry but it really helped me better understand the web. The HTTP spec and Roy Fielding’s Dissertation on REST have been quite helpful over the last 5 years.
Links:
Scripting News RSS feed
A leader must always communicate a progressive message. It must provide a clear path of advancement on the goal and mission. A progressive message must be:
- Honest
- Accurate
- Actionable
- Focused
Communicating a progressive message does not mean one must ignore problems or failures, a progressive message recognises the problems and failures. In recognizing problems and failures the leader uses the adversity as a way-point to the goal and a successful mission. Failing to maintain a progressive message will undermine the moral and productivity of the team. If the person leading can’t point to the progressive path the team will stall.
So maintain a progressive message and bring your people forward.
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The cow has the right idea. This picture makes me want to take a nap on a breezy hill top.
Enjoy
That is the question, is it private or not private, or is it even your data. This all, in an interesting article about search history and how it should be handled (via WSJ).
John Battelle thinks the search engines should take a stronger position.
The Attention Trust lays out the principles that customers should require of their consumers of their attention.
The government is trying to protect your data and at the same time trying to ensure that they have access to it.
The way I see it, its our data without the user Google wouldn’t exist and the government is sanctioned by the people for the people. We need to be more demanding of our online relationships when it comes to the privacy and handling of our data. We also need to be more exacting and demanding of our elected officials in protecting our basic rights. It’s not that the government shouldn’t have access to our Internet activity, that access should follow due process, be visible to the user or their legal representative (in some cases this may be a court) and be transparent. Companies should respect the user’s rights and provide clear mechanisms for customers to exercise those rights. We minimally share copyright on our user data. Companies need to recognize that joint copyright and set forth a framework for collaboration and rights management (which may include explicit termination of rights).
Just my two cents.
oh yeah
Questions in my mind,
What is the value of the history of human behavior (online or offline)? Don’t know, but that information serves us to this day, will Google query history, who knows.
When do the names on a war memorial become obsolete? Never.
What about privacy, can someone refuse to have a family members name on a memorial? Not sure.
Tom The Architect 