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DRADIS donation request

August 30, 2006

My DRADIS project made a bit of a splash. However what I delivered for my first video demo was a small fraction of what I have in my head. I have been talking to some people in the private security industry, farming and logistics/transportation industry. There are useful applications for DRADIS, but [...]

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Amazon EC2 = JIT Web farm

August 24, 2006

Heard about Amazon Web Services new offering? Here is a quick rundown…
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Looks pretty cool, yet it doesn’t look it can be used with Microsoft/ASP.NET technologies. [...]

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Using conventional media to up-sell web content

August 21, 2006

Have you seen that show Rock star Supernova? I don’t really watch it but my girlfriend is nuts for it. If anything I’d call this seemingly generic reality/elimination show a next-gen reality show. The business model behind this venture is fantastic and I applaud how they use the internet to up-sell music. [...]

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Google could be using Mechanical Turk

August 16, 2006

My previous post about AMTSense made quite the splash. When Tim O’Reilly linked to me I noticed his next entry The System is Smarter than the Raters. I’ve quoted what caught my eye…
Google hires temp workers to evaluate search results. Often when the raters and the system disagree, there’s a bug, which Google [...]

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How Amazon/AMT can change the internet economy.

August 8, 2006

Disclaimer - I am not affiliated with Amazon, Amazon Web Services or Amazon Mechanical Turk in any way — this is just an idea on how they can change their existing service.
This post is an “out there” idea based on top of Amazon Mechanical Turk (don’t bother reading this is until you know how AMT [...]