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+They say the future of the web is in web services and if [Amazon][1] is any indicator they're right. Amazon has been working overtime to position itself as the leading provider of web services for a new generation of companies looking to ex
+You probably think of Amazon as a store, but Amazon would like to change that impression. Today's Business Week has a long article entitled *[Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet][2]* that focuses on Amazon's attempt to transform from an e-commerce giant to a software company. 
+One of the big problems with e-commerce packages is that they're either too customized or not customizable enough. Amazon's strength lies in the fact that Amazon, as an article on [Web Services Journal][3] puts it, "eats it's own dog food." 
+To solve this problem of the gap between what a programmer thinks is necessary in a web service and what a business actually wants, Amazon effectively forked itself into components. As it set about developing web services for internal use, Amazon became a consumer of its own services. The feedback that happened internally at Amazon has led to a package of web services that take some remarkably complex engineering problems and wrap them up in easy to use APIs. That Amazon has turned around and started offering various web service APIs to the world at large, is indicative of it's transformation from online store to online service provider.
+And the services that Amazon is now slowly releasing are in fact the same tools it uses to power it's own e-commerce offerings.
+From an engineer point of view what makes Amazon's offerings, for instance the S3 storage service, compelling is that the services are completely decoupled from each other. If a small business wants to use S3 to store data but doesn't want any other service from Amazon and in fact wants to use a competing service for the other areas of their business, that's fine. The S3 service has no lock-in with anything else. Amazon has essentially just taken the core principles of Object Oriented Programming and scaled them to encompass whole web services.
+While this is a somewhat technical point that may be lost on many observers, for savvy web 2.0 startups this means they aren't entangled in a spider web of interconnected components. It also means Amazon's services scale well. Because of the loose coupling between them, Amazon makes it easy to add new services as a company grows or to discard services that are no longer needed.
+It might sound too simple to be remarkable, but Amazon's greatest strength in the web services game may be that it has taken to heart an old engineering quip, do one thing and do it well. In Amazon's case this means have each individual part do one thing and do it well. Doing one thing well is far often more valuable to businesses than a huge unwieldy service that attempts to do everything and ends up doing nothing very well.
+But as the Business Week article points out, Wall Street is still scratching it's head trying to figure out where the money is. Analysts seem so far skeptical of a model that takes e-commerce necessities like search, storage, lookup and management of data and turns them into pay-per-use services.
+And In some respects Wall Street is right, the target market here is small and medium size businesses, larger companies may well stay with in-house solutions. Is Amazon betting on the long tail effect for revenue? That remains to be seen, but it is worth noting that some big players have already taken advantage of Amazon's services, most notably Microsoft which uses the Elastic Compute Cloud service to help speed software downloads.
+Amazon will very likely be rolling out some more services and an overview of it's strategy at next week's Web 2.0 Conference. 
+Monkey Bites coverage of the Web 2.0 Conference begins on Wednesday, be sure to check here for all the latest news.
+[1]: http://Amazon.com/ "Amazon.com"
+[2]: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_46/b4009001.htm "Business Week"
+[3]: http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/262024.htm "Web Services Journal"
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+Hot on the heels of its [YouTube waffling][1], Comedy Central has announced it will be revamping its online video distribution.
+According to [The Hollywood Reporter][2], the new site plans on "offering a syndication capability allowing users to grab and embed their favorite clips for posting on their own Web pages."
+Hmm. That sounds like another site I've heard of.
+The new site will also feature clips in Flash for better cross-platform capability (the current site shows .wmv movies).
+The good news is that the Comedy Central website has no where to go but up. The current site is a disaster, the kind of site the haunts Jakob Nielsen's darkest nightmares
+In researching this post, the current site managed to crash Safari three times and in Firefox produced a bizarre flickering effect and overlaid content on top of the menus. Hopefully these and myriad of other issues will be addressed in the revamping. 
+It's nice to see Comedy Central trying to improve their site and reaching out to viewers wanting online content, but I can't help thinking that a partnership with YouTube might make more sense. I manage to watch The Daily Show almost every day and until today I'd never actually been to the Comedy Central site. I suspect that I am not alone in this. 
+YouTube already offers a distribution network exactly like what Comedy Central claims they are building, why not use it? Comedy Central may be a destination channel on the dial, but that doesn't translate to a destination website, which is something corporate media companies fail to understand. The audience doesn't want all their Comedy Central video content in one place, they want *all* their video content in one place.
+[Update: It would seem that the flickering effect I witnessed was actually due to an adblocking plugin. But hey, if you can't block the ads, what's the point in browsing the internet?]
+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/comedy_central_.html "Monkey Bites on CC and YouTube"
+[2]: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3iBJfr5p%2BGfIe4f6SRiNPJ7w%3D%3D
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+[Evoca][1], a web service that allows you to share voice recordings, is now offering widgets for MySpace and blogs that allow you to receive audio comments on your pages.
+With the "Evoca Browser Mic", you can let visitors post audio comments. The comments are private and accessible only by the site owner. To get your comments you need to login to your Evoca account. 
+I suspect that the default private comments setting will change fairly soon as I think most people would be more interested in public audio comments.
+There are currently plugins for TypePad, Wordpress and Blogger.
+There are other services that have previously offered similar features, but none that I'm aware of offer the plugin support that Evoca gives.
+Can't wait to hear the first audio spam comments 
+[found via [Mashable][2]]
+[1]: http://www.evoca.com/ "Evoca.com"
+[2]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/03/evoca-launches-voice-comments-for-myspace-blogs/ "Mashable.com"
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+The Free Software Foundation announced today an new distribution of Linux that is made entirely of free software. Named [gNewSense][1], the new package was created by two Irish free software advocates, Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley.
+The developers' goal was to create a GNU/Linux distribution where all sources, from the kernal itself to the applications in the system, were free and available to user.
+Ted Teah, the FSF's software directory maintainer says, "with all the kernel firmware and restricted repositories removed, and the reliance on Ubuntu's proprietary distribution management tool gone, this distribution is the most advanced GNU/Linux distribution that has a commitment to be 100% free." 
+The developers added that their aim is "to produce a fully free distribution, not to have as many features as possible."
+I want to get behind this because I'm a big supporter of free software, but there seems to be something perverse about ditching features and therefore usefulness just to gain total freedom. What good is freedom if I can't use it? And I get the pun in the name, but I also can't help wondering if perhaps the FSF isn't becoming more of fringe "nuisance" than a viable "new sense." 
+[1]: http://www.gnewsense.org "gNewSense"
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+<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The morning reboot, brought to you by the miracle of coffee:
+*	Apple is offering a [free 30-day trial][1] of their post-production photo tool, Aperture. The trial gives you an uncrippled version of Aperture, but it doesn't come with samples or tutorials and it expires 30 days after the first launch.
+*	One of the first things I noticed about Firefox 2.0 was that it ditched the option to block 3rd part cookies. [Here's a thread in the MozillaZine Forums][2] that tells how to restore that setting.
+*	CNet reports that Microsoft's failed MSN music site will soon be [redirecting to the Zune Marketplace Web][3].
+*	Did you know the NSA uses Linux? Did you know you can [download their "security enhanced"][4] version?
+*	And finally, there's an interesting (and long) [story on IEEE Spectrum][5] about a new project named Parakey, from Blake Ross the creator of Firefox.
+[1]: http://www.apple.com/aperture/trial/
+[2]: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=478545&sid=dc67fdf31128b1926968063cd7f6247f
+[3]: http://news.com.com/MSN+Music+presses+mute+on+downloads/2100-1027_3-6132201.html
+[4]: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/code/download0.cfm
+[5]: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4696
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+There's a whole host of travel related sites out there, I've looked at a few in past, but I found one today with an interesting twist. [Travelhiker][1] has all the usual trappings of travel networks, blogs, reviews, photos and more, but Travelhiker allows you to integrate your reviews with an AdSense account so you can earn money. 
+Travelhiker is looking for people to write detailed city guides. Travelhiker calls this "[The Travelhiker Project][2]." Once you've signed up for an account you enter your Google Adsense ID and you'll get half the revenue generated by your page. It's a nice incentive to get people contributing and its always nice to get a little something for your writing. I don't think anyone is going to get rich, but in many places a little bit of money can go a long way.
+The interesting thing about Travelhiker's program is there's really no need to be a traveller to take advantage of it. In fact hometown knowledge is usually better since you can offer inside information and cool hidden treasures for out-or-towners looking for things the guidebooks will miss.
+Travelhiker has another cool feature that isn't new. There's a whole section of site devoted to helping you plan a trip and find people who might be interested in going with you. Some places can be overwhelming on your own (India comes to mind), and this way you can kind find other people interested in going to the same places you're headed.
+Travelhiker is relatively new and doesn't have a huge user base yet, but I expect the site to grow. I should note that the site didn't work very well in Safari, but it was fine in Firefox.
+[1]: http://travelhiker.com/index.php "Travelhiker.com"
+[2]: http://travelhiker.com/about_travelguides.php
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