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Amazon Simple Queue Service is a simple, compelling service: Amazon Simple Queue Service (Beta) The Amazon Simple Queue Service offers a reliable, highly scalable hosted queue for buffering messages between distributed application components. The Amazon Simple Queue Service reduces the costs associated with resolving the producer-consumer problem that arises in distributed application development. Such costs […]
New York Times has two interesting statistics: An estimated half-million people make a full- or part-time living by auctioning everything from macrame to Maseratis on the Internet. In the online auction world, they are called power sellers, and they have succeeded by researching consumer trends, finding reliable sources for goods and not sparing the bubble […]
Dan Gillmor wrote in the 10/31/2004 SJ Mercury News: Google will have all kinds of company in this expanding world of advertising. That will include, I would expect, many of the more traditional media companies that will see a chance to expand their advertising base beyond the equivalent of the blockbuster (expensive) model that now […]
After our decentralized filesharing post we discovered this item from ACM News Service, “Is P2P Dying or Just Hiding?” High-order bits excerpted from the paper itself: In our traces, P2P traffic volume has not dropped since 2003. Our datasets are inconsistent with claims of significant P2P traffic decline. We present a methodology for identifying P2P […]
CNET refers to an online trend — “the blurring of e-commerce and personal media such as Web logs and social networking sites”: Amazon.com has quietly introduced a new feature on its Web store that lets customers post photos alongside product reviews–its latest effort to build a sense of community among customers. The e-tailer introduced the […]
Today CommerceNet’s Smart Health Portal was launched during the Smart Health Summit. The initiative: Smart Valley, a non-profit committed to turning Silicon Valley into the leading user of the technologies it invents, and CommerceNet will work with the Smart Health Forum, a community of healthcare provider, insurers, employers and foundations in Silicon Valley. The Forum, […]
Brian Dear has an intriguing idea: Imagine WikiHealth or WikiMed, an open, collaborative health database written by everyone in the world? If millions of people could contribute articles on health and well-being, diseases, treatments, symptoms, remedies, and personal experience with what worked and what didn’t with prescriptions, would the world be better off? Are you […]
RFID cell phones take shape at Nokia For instance, retailers could put RFID-embedded “touch phone here” signs on store shelves to send a coupon to the phone, or put the same signs at checkout stands to instantly transfer personal information stored on the phone in order to complete a warranty, Nokia Director Gerhard Romen said. […]
Science News: Best guess: economists explore betting markets as prediction tools The research that led to future-predicting markets stems from the 1960s and 1970s, when Vernon Smith and Charles Plott, now of George Mason University and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, respectively, began using laboratory experiments to study different market designs. In the […]
InformationWeek > Future Of Transactions > Peer-To-Peer Payoff > October 18, 2004 Some people, including myself, believe the next step is for some of those bits to have value. That is to say, consider a string of bits to be like a virtual cow or shell. In order to distinguish these bits (like telling the […]