[ALTACITIES.COM] ... WHERE THE WEB GOES TO WORK: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels confirmed as "fireside chat" speaker at Under the Radar! As a leader in this space, Werner will be joining us to discuss the future of apps in the cloud - where it's h...
Via FT.com
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is to start selling wine in the US, entering a business fraught with regulatory complexities and littered with the wreckage of previous failures.
Amazon is looking to recruit a senior wine buye...
Harper Collins have put Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods up at their website, and it can be read for free. It's the same sort of posting as the Amazon "browse inside this book" functionality, so not the most satisfying way to read a wh...
It’s practical to use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) as the backend for a web application WITHOUT any intervening application server. I have the code to prove it and I’m sharing it. If you’re a nerd, read on otherwise you may want to skip th...
...e's users make more than 50 percent of its edits. Perhaps more notoriously, four years ago a computer glitch revealed that Amazon.com's customer-written book reviews are often written by the book's author or a shill for the publisher."The...