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October 2009
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
by karlcow
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business.
The Acai Berry: A Nutri-Powerhouse and Then Some
by maracruz
(via)
Know the lowdown on Acai Berry, the nutritious fruit from the Amazon rainforest that brings multiple health benefits. It is a powerful antioxidant that will boost your body's protection against disease.
How To: Getting Started with Amazon EC2
by marco
EC2 lets you easily run and manage many instances (like servers) and given the proper software and configurations, have a scalable platform for your web application, outsource resource-intensive tasks to EC2 or for whatever you would use a server farm
Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free!
by ms_michel
Il est possible de stocker gratuitement jusqu'à 1 GO de données dans une base SimpleDB.
The URI microformat, OpenURL and COIns, will be very interesting to library application - in "Programming" (Tricks/tips learned in daily programming work)
by decembre
& 1 other
The URI microformat takes advantage of OpenURL and existing link resolver solution.It defines a convention of plugging URI metadata in HTML page. If it is adopted and widely used,now a microformat-aware application (be a greasemonkey script, or a web service) can grab the identifier and point to your local OpenURL resolver, you immediately get the copy from local library.It is very similar to COINS, but it's much simpler and cleaner, anyone can understand and use it, and its aplication can be beyond traditional research library. e.g. in a public library, you can use amazon as catalog and immediately check if it's available in local collection.------- COinS provides a great number of additional capabilities that URI microformat can't support. Since COinS can't be dismissed for this reason, it doesn't make sense to me to create yet another standard that does the same thing with so little savings.I will grant that the COinS is less intuitive.....
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September 2009
Flickr Coverpop.com - What do you want to make? A Photomosaic Coverpop? A Graph? A Screensaver? A Puzzle Book?
by decembre
We can make a lot of different stuff with Flickr photos! (Amazon and YouTube Coverpops are coming soon...)
Is it a bird ? Is it a plane ? No. It’s a monopolistic library-bookseller - Analyse inquiétante sur Google books
by decembre
Analyse inquiétante et malheureusement teintée de lucidité d’Olivier Ertzscheid sur Google books : "Google libraire. Google bibliothécaire. Amazon éditeur.l’avenir de la prescription documentairequi n’est rien moins - sans lyrisme déplacé - que le simple avenir de la transmission des savoirs et de la culture à l’échelle de la planète
Amazon visite votre Kindle et efface des ouvrages et vos notes sur les dites ouvrages.....
by decembre
Amazon revisite 1984 et brûle les livres qu’il vous a vendus, annotations incluses. Ce n’est d’ailleurs que le début de ce qui s’annonce avec l’internet "dans les nuages", ce cloud computing dans le cadre duquel les individus déposent leurs données à distance, via des applications qu’ils utilisent en ligne, et non en local.
Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS), une technologie qui répond à un enjeu de société - Le Cléo (Centre pour l’édition électronique ouverte)
by decembre
L’enjeu le plus important, aujourd’hui, est de permettre l’épanouissement d’un grand nombre d’entrepôts de livres électroniques et d’un grand nombre de libraires électroniques (cf :"Gutenberg, ce criminel " et dans "Et si Itunes avalait tous vos livres?" . L’enjeu est économique. Il est culturel. Il est politique. C’est un enjeu de société qui ne doit pas être réduit à une question technologique. Souhaitons-nous confier le contrôle de la diffusion des livres électroniques à 5 ou 10 acteurs majeurs dans le monde (au hasard : Apple, Amazon, Google) ou souhaitons-nous permettre la naissance de multiples canaux d’émission de livres et de multiples canaux de distributions de livres? .
InfoQ: The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection
by karlcow
& 1 other
What happens when one clicks on "Proceed to Checkout" on a website after browsing through their offerings? This is an analysis of the first milliseconds when an HTTPS connection with Amazon is established. A new page is loaded when proceeding to checkout:
Amazon - Constrained Search vs. Random Results
by access2
The way to find needles in the immense haystack of Amazon.com is through constrained search.
Amazon's search function, like most others, claims to use a logical AND operator on keywords. That is search results for "Amazon Warriors," for example, should contain both "Amazon" AND "Warriors."
In fact, you will find that, all things being equal -- "Amazon" AND "Warriors" results will appear higher than "Amazon" OR "Warriors" results.
You need to "drill down" through the thousands of Amazon Categories to find the results that meet your criteria. I could go on and on (there really are thousands of categories) but I think this small sample will illustrate how different your results can be for a single search term
Top Bridal Magazines
by access2
Amazon.com's got all the popular bridal magazines to make your special day just a little easier on everyone. Whether you're planning a wedding or just dreaming for now, you'll find lots of interesting and useful information in these top-selling magazines
Amazon aStores @ Amazon.com
by access2
Now you can quickly and easily build thousands of Amazon product pages using the unlimited category nesting feature, build your own site navigation, and customize your store's look and feel with CSS.
The Whole Ed Cata-Blog
by access2
There are over 75 million pages at Amazon.com, and the major search engines don't index them nearly as well as you might think. My blog is your guide to the Amazon backwaters. This work is supported solely by Amazon commissions.
August 2009
NASA NEBULA | Services | Services
by karlcow
Eucalyptus is an API-compatible open-source clone of the Amazon AWS
Search by title if ISBN not found – Userscripts.org
by decembre
Liens du catalogue opac intégrer dans Amazon , ce script donne le statut du livre
