Geeking With Greg: Early Amazon
Series of blog posts by an ex amazon coder
Abusing Amazon Images
tricks for grabbing book covers from amazon
Amazon.com: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System: Books: Marshall Kirk McKusick,George V. Neville-Neil
amazon link for a book on the design of the FreeBSD kernel
Amazon S3, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Unlimited Online Storage
A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools (by Jeremy Zawodny)
SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Amazon S3: Show me the money
analysis of why amazon s3 is saving smugmug.com over US$500K/year
Landon Fuller: Amazon S3 backups (and a Java S3 Library)
s3 backup tool that accepts data via stdin - could be great for shell scripting
Amazon Recommendations.pdf (application/pdf-Objekt)
S3 + Rake = Easy Backups for SVN Repositories, Databases, and Code
Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store
Paper that discusses amazons highly reliable dtaa store
EDI Trading with Amazon
RubyForge: rSh3ll: Project Info
shell interface for s3. Very handy for a quick poke at the files in your buckets
duplicity: Main
incremental backup tool that supports a range of destinations, including amazon s3. backups can be gpg encrypted.
Economical Use of Amazon S3 with Ruby on Rails
Amazon Dynamo: The Next Generation Of Virtual Distributed Storage
S3NBD
Amazon s3 network block device. Discontinuted project
Amazon Web Services EC2 Ruby Gem
Analyzing Human Genomes with Hadoop » Cloudera Hadoop & Big Data Blog
Sequencing a human genome for USD$100 using a 40 node (320 core) EC2 cluster
Amazon S3 Hosting Tips & Tricks - Access Logs, HTTP Headers, Timed URLs & more.
Publishers Lunch - To: All Macmillan authors/illustrators and the literary agent community
Letter from macmillan to their authors on how they want to market ebooks. Direct publisher to retailer sales, even playing field for all retailers (same price, no exclusive deals for kindle etc). Exciting times for consumers, worrying for distributors. The book industry is flattening out, less room for middlemen.
NSFW: Hey, 1997 – Macmillan called, they want the Net Book Agreement back
“A victory for authors.”
That’s how some people are describing Amazon’s capitulation to Macmillan over the pricing of ebooks...... Oh please.
Why Kindle Should Be An Open Book - Forbes.com
great piece by tim o'reilly on benefits of epub
Kindle and iPad Displays: Up close and personal. | BIT-101
kindle and ipad screens under a microscope
Here's how Amazon took the lead in the billion-dollar ebook market — and why they'll dominate
But Amazon played beautifully every step of the game. And now, in a market that is growing very big, very fast, and probably has strong network effects, it has an early lead which makes us think it will end up dominating it. In fact, we think Amazon's marketshare will end up closer to 90%.
Digital Text Platform: Self-publish to Amazon's Kindle Store
Google has a problem retaining great engineers? Bullcrap ...
Another startup, Chegg, proved its business model by using Amazon.com to drop ship text books to their first customers.......You don’t negotiate volume discounts with textbook publishers, or build huge warehouses to hold all of the diapers that you’re going to buy until you prove that you have a business model that works.
Booksellers challenge myth that online is cheaper
Caching, Zipping, and (Amazon CloudFront) CDN For A Rails App - Alfa Jango Blog
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) with Python
Better AWS Access Control with IAM (and Fog)