Stories tagged "ec2"

What's wrong with the "friends connection" programs announced by Facebook, MySpace and Google? Many people have been trying to explain the principle of data portability as if it were a new concept, but it's actually not. It's been on our PCs for years.

Lately the echo chamber of the blogosphere inhabited by the Gillmor Gang (of which I am a member) has been caught in a loop of Twitter-FriendFeed convulsions. Steve Gillmor believes that Twitter is the communications medium of the future...

There has been a lot of name calling among cloud vendors and a lot of cloud vendors have been calling other vendors aaSs by defining them into three specific

Google's Mark Lucovsky talks about search APIs, cache semantics, cloud computing, Live Mesh, and his fondness for Microsoft Outlook on the Gillmor Gang. Read this blog post by Dan Farber on Outside the Lines.

The author describes a method for load testing websites using Amazon EC2 clusters

The simple exposure of creating a web site dedicated to these communities comes across as odd or unecessary because to people outside the community it most certainly is. That’s exactly the point of niche communities. They aren’t for everyone.

If you're not familiar with why EC2 is going to change the face of hosting, this high level overview will give you a quick introduction to the technology.

While you're waiting for The Great Debaters to come out on DVD in a couple of weeks, there are a few places where you can put in debate practice online in the meantime.

With paid links so high up on the radar at the Googleplex these days, it has become even more crucial that your website’s link profile is as natural as possible… even if the links themselves aren’t 100% natural. So what makes a natural link profile?

Something I never really paid much attention to in my emails from FriendFeed was the link to the FriendFeed discussion group, but today ....