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“This is just the beginning of a multi-year initiative. It will take many years, but our vision is to offer our entire catalog of products in Frustration-Free Packaging. And because "wrap rage" knows no national boundaries, we're committed to expanding more...

Is the Kindle the "game-changer" that some people claim? And just what "game" would it be changing, anyway?

“It's not cool to rip off other people's blogposts dude. Link to original article: http://vertonghen.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/erlang-or-utility-computing-vs-appliance-computing/”

“When cloud-computing services like Amazon’s S3 go down, as it did again this weekend, it raises the question of whether they are ready for prime time. If these services keep going down, can startups rely on them enough to build more...

Who knew a pen could inspire such fear and loathing?

The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do.

Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant financial consequences and impacts customer trust. The Amazon.com platform, which provides more...

TheSheepMarket.com is a collection of the first 10,000 sheep made by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Workers were paid 0.02 ($USD) to "draw a sheep facing to the left." Animations of each sheep's creation may be viewed at TheSheepMarket.com.

Price-comparitor with graphs.

This does bring up questions as to whether we should trust Amazon's S3 with data we can't afford to loose.

Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate "artificial artificial intelligence" directly into their processing by making requests of humans.