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NYT: “Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing”

Posted in Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Enterprise 2.0, Netflix, article, cloud computing on Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 1:55 am | Leave a Comment »

Informative article from the New York Times explaining in layperson’s terms cloud computing and how businesses are using it: Netflix transforming their business with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and 3M sticking their toes in, with IBM’s Azure cloud.

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Why I’ve Just Unsubscribed from All My CRM/Loyalty Programs’ Mailing Lists

Posted in Amazon, Apple, CRM, Loyalty Programs, RSS, Web 2.0 on Sunday, 13 July 2008, 12:54 pm | 1 Comment »

I’ve been meaning to do this ever since I got a Blackberry and started my own business 15 months ago. And now that I’ve done it, it feels great. And I highly recommend you do it too: Unsubscribe from all the CRM/Loyalty programs who you opted in to receive emails from. Here’s my story: I, [...]

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Community Sourcing Web 2.0 Sneaker eCommerce Site, Ryz, in Beta

Posted in Amazon, Nike, Puma, Ryz, Vanns, Web 2.0, adidas, crowd sourcing, ecommerce, film festival, open sourcing, threadless, wisdom of crowds on Sunday, 6 July 2008, 8:32 am | 1 Comment »

Ryz, the Portland-based community sourcing Web 2.0 sneaker eCommerce site that I’ve written about before is live in Beta! At least 3 cool designs are available for purchase. These sneaker designs were chosen as winning designs from amongst hundreds submitted by the masses. Going forward, the masses get to vote on the designs. And the [...]

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New & Improved Enterprise Cloud Computing, from Amazon Web Services

Posted in Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Enterprise 2.0, Nicholas Carr, Web 2.0, Werner Vogels, cloud computing on Saturday, 19 April 2008, 12:45 pm | Leave a Comment »

Phil Wainewright, in his “Software As A Service” blog at ZDNet, has a good post on Amazon’s beefed up Web Services, which include a needed dashboard to monitor the services you subscribe to, called a Health Dashboard: Wainewright praises these new monitoring tools, which up service levels, concluding his post with “AWS is now starting [...]

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Good “Wisdom of Crowds” Use @Brooklyn Museum (+ Some Bad Uses)

Posted in Amazon, Brooklyn, Museum, Web 2.0, crowd sourcing, photography, wisdom of crowds on Thursday, 14 February 2008, 10:50 am | Leave a Comment »

My good friend Tracy Collins reports on his blog today that the Brooklyn Museum is trying “crowd curation” for a photography exhibit. Sounds like a cool experiment. It’s called “Click!”, which, cleverly, is sound made by the pushing of both a camera shutter and a mouse, while voting online. This strikes me as a good [...]

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