15 Mar 2006
Amazon just launched a new service, S3 - Simple Storage Service. It is a web service that allows you to store as much data as you like, with file sizes up to 5GB, and you just pay for the storage you use and the data transferred. Rates are very reasonable, too – $0.15/GB/month of storage, and $0.20/GB in data transferred.
This is pretty interesting. It gives developers the ability to create applications requiring significant storage space without having to make a huge upfront investment in equipment and expertise. Want to write your own Flickr? Go for it. Granted, it’s risky relying on a third party for a core part of your business, but you only need them until you get your million users and can get enough funding to build your own storage backend.
Google is apparently working on their own storage backend, Google Drive. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Nothing but good news for aspiring entrepreneurs, though.
via TechCrunch
27 Feb 2006
One of the most exciting new technologies I’ve seen in a long time: a multi-touch touch screen. The video says it all.
08 Feb 2006
John C. Dvorak has a good piece at pcmag.com about speculations that Google is going to be creating their own network (see the “Google is the Internet” scenario from the article linked in my previous post). I certainly hope they do, as telcos have been dragging their feet on broadband for a long time, and acting like the Mafia whenever someone encroaches on “their” territory.
More articles on the subject:
02 Feb 2006
Great article from Business 2.0 describing four future scenarios for Google:
Imagining the Google Future
30 Jan 2006
My imsmarter proxy stopped working last week, and I just got around to going to their site to see what was up. Looks like they’ve shut down. A bit of a pity; I thought it was a useful service. I use IM on four different machines and it made finding something from a past conversation a lot easier. Actually, though, what I used most often was its reminder feature. I could send it an IM saying “Remind me in 2 hours to check the car” and it would do just that, saving me many parking tickets. I imagine there are other services like that out there; I should check around. Actually, that would be a pretty trival thing to implement myself. Hmmm.
