Dare has a great overview of the SimpleDB services. Although there are some downsides to the service it certainly was the next logical step for Amazon in this space. I can’t help but wonder where MSFT is in this game. That and if Penton will have to make this the next data provider for Graffiti? 🙂
Amazon SimpleDB: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Sometime last week, Amazon soft launched Amazon SimpleDB, a hosted service for storing and querying structured data.
Via Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
As the social web grows and the interactions become more human it doesn’t surprise me that women would be more social online.
Study finds girls eclipse boys in photo posting, other obvious web facts
Filed under: Internet, Video, Blogging, E-mail, web 2.
Via Download Squad
I still think the best reason to make your reputation systems transparent is to enable self policing communities to point out the ones that game the system.
Reputation: where the personal and the participatory meet up (installment 2 of 4)
At the symposium, by and large, everybody agreed that your data should be available to you and that the heuristics used to generate reputation should be open.
Via O’Reilly Radar
No longer coming soon… 🙂
Live on Graffiti CMS Beta 1_
_ I am pleased to announce that TerriMorton.com has launched.
Via Telligenti
Online support communities become a “free market” for answers.
SourceForge launches open source tech support Marketplace
Filed under: Business, Internet, Open Source Open source project hosting service SourceForge is launching a marketplace for users to sell their services.
Via Download Squad
The best customer service in the cell industry right now is ATT. Don’t believe me? stuck on hold? Take your dispute into the store. It may cost ATT more, but every representative we talk to always makes things right and generally gives us some service credits for our trouble. I can’t wait to tell everyone who complains about ATT support these stories. The marketing doesn’t get any better than that.
Thanks for calling, please go away
Most customer service organizations are architected around a simple idea: interacting with customers is expensive, driving costs down is a good thing, thus getting people to go away is beneficial.
Via Seth’s Blog
I love RSS Bandit, but what can a rich client do to complete against Google Reader? Should RSS Bandit become the offline front end via a Gears interface?
Memetracking in RSS Bandit
I had some free time last night, so I ported my meme tracker in IronPython over to C# and integrated it into the RSS Bandit source tree.
Via Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
In 2008 blogs and forums will merge with micro-posting. Instead of the medium defining the conversation the conversation will define the medium.
MT Community Solution: Blogs Meet Forums 2.0
SixApart has launched a new version of the their Movable Type (MT) blogging platform, Movable Type Community Solution (MTCS) that takes blogging into the realms of forum hosting, with some nice 2.
Via TechCrunch