Tag Archives: amazon.com

Read Write Web – You Can Read, But You Can’t Buy: iOS E-Reader Apps Remove Links to Bookstores

The end of this bat­tle between Apple and publishers.

July 26, 2011 – 12:13 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Cloud Computing News – Amazon storing more than 449B objects in S3

That is crazy impres­sive both the sheer num­ber of objects stored and the growth rate.

July 20, 2011 – 6:55 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Wired – How Online Companies Get You to Share More and Spend More

Always neat see­ing psy­chol­ogy at play espe­cially with com­pa­nies that excel at it.

July 15, 2011 – 1:50 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Marketing, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

WSJ.com – Amazon Plans iPad Rival

A new Kin­dle though I’ve been wait­ing for that, defi­antly pick up one of those puppies.

July 13, 2011 – 8:48 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Apple quietly drops special subscription requirements for iOS apps

The new rules feel much more bal­anced for both pub­lish­ers and Apple.

June 17, 2011 – 5:25 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Shawn Blanc – Cloudy With a Chance of Music

Own­er­ship and total con­trol over the expe­ri­ence is almost para­mount for how I lis­ten to music.

May 19, 2011 – 9:51 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Technology, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Twilio Engineering Blog – Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issue

Twilio on how to build a ser­vice that was able to deal with Amazon’s downtime.

April 24, 2011 – 8:50 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off