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Archive for August, 2008

This post is an open deliberation on the best usage strategy for the new EBS offered by Amazon Web Services. Last Thursday Amazon launched a much anticipated new service: Elastic Block Store (:EBS). EBS offers persistent storage (something that was missing from EC2) at a price of 10 cents per Gb per month. In addition, [...]

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Back in the end of 2007, half a year after Google Reader had launched the sharing feature, I had an idea of a new service that would aggregate all the shared items and sort them according to the number of times one post was shared. As it usually happens with the new ideas, somebody else [...]

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A surplus of ideas? Part with them!

In his blogpost “A brilliant idea at Harvard“, Dave Winer says (bold is mine): Before I started blogging, I held many if not most of my good ideas in reserve because I thought some day I might do them as products. But as you get older, you realize that most of the things you think [...]

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A Nigerian scam (=spam) classic.

I don’t remember how many years back was it when I first saw the original nigerian scam mail. You know, the type of ‘I have so many million dollars and I want to get them out of the country etc’.  If there was a spam hit parade this would be Nr 1 for years. It [...]

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Smashing magazine is running a contest to find new professional writers and is giving a MacBook Air as a prize. While I was contemplating whether it would make sense for me to participate in the contest, I started thinking about the general issue that a high profile/traffic blog or site encounters: how to find and [...]

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