"Werner Vogels, vice president and CTO at Amazon, is talking about why Amazon is in the cloud computing business, how it got there and why customer should want it." - Steven Hatch

"Jiffy—an end-to-end system for instrumenting your web pages, capturing client-side timings for any event that you determine, and storing and reporting on those timings. You run Jiffy yourself, so you aren’t dependent on the performance characteristic - Steven Hatch

"SmugVault adds safe storage of other file types, such as RAW, TIFF, PDF, PSD—almost any files you can imagine. Including videos. Even Word and Excel files." - Steven Hatch

"AOL is now offering developers who create applications using the Open AIM API the opportunity to make money. AIM Money is a new revenue-share platform where developers profit from ads they embed into their Open AIM applications." - Steven Hatch

"The top 100 advertisers in the U.S., who represent 41 percent of total advertising spending, shifted about $1 billion last year from TV and newspapers to the Web." - Steven Hatch

"It's dangerous to treat your bike as a mechanical mystery. Keeping your bike in good condition, well-tuned and well-maintained, makes you a safer biker." - Steven Hatch

"a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications...suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing." - Steven Hatch

I've been thinking about getting a Kindle for my wife (seriously;-) Seth has some great observations (as usual) "I got a Kindle. It's a fascinating device, unlike almost any other launched by a significant tech company. Here's why..." - Steven Hatch

My Born shoes have cracked a sole again. As my wife blogs, "Are these shoes designed to only last 6 months? Ridiculous. I won’t even bother contacting the company this time. But really, we are done with Born shoes." - Steven Hatch

JBoss Java middleware available through Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service - Steven Hatch

It’s built all using Amazon Services (EC2, S3, ECS) and it doesn’t use Flash or any other browser extension/plug-in. Neat! - Steven Hatch

"And, by all means, don't take the stuff you read in the press at face value. You're all smarter than that." -- Good luck Jeremy and I'll take your advice! - Steven Hatch

"...a massive sell off of Yahoo stock began - the company lost billions in market valuation over the course of the next hour as the market made it’s bets on the news." - Steven Hatch

Borders is to axe an undisclosed number of jobs as it implements "fundamental change". - Steven Hatch

"What AT&T doesn’t want you to know, is that their 3G HSDPA networking service is only available for a select amount of metropolitan areas. I mean, this thing is very, very limited." - Steven Hatch

"a non-exclusive advertising agreement that will provide Yahoo! with access to our AdSense for search and AdSense for content advertising programs on their U.S. and Canadian web properties. " - Steven Hatch

Hmm, I’m always skeptical of claims like this: "With Iceberg, any user can create a web application using its simple, DIY tools.", but it's worth a try... - Steven Hatch

An interesting list of uses for Google Charts - Steven Hatch

Awesome Flash-based Flickr tag browser - Steven Hatch

"For Amazon, running a cloud computing service is core to its business in a way that it isn't for, say, IBM, Sun, or HP." - Steven Hatch

"A free open source system for indexing collections of Web pages or other files.. ideally suited for collections of a million documents or smaller... can index plain text, e-mail, PDF, HTML, XML, Word/PowerPoint/Excel..." - Steven Hatch

"The Orb controls the mixture between Landscape and Portrait processing and between smooth and texture enhanced output. Underneath is our proprietary algorithm that does the rest." - Steven Hatch

"To operate on Google's scale requires the company to treat each machine as expendable. Server makers pride themselves on their high-end machines' ability to withstand failures, but Google prefers to invest its money in fault-tolerant software." - Steven Hatch

"Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following topics" - Steven Hatch

"Ingram Digital, an Ingram Content company focused on solutions for digital content management, hosting, distribution and promotion, today announced it has acquired the iofy digital audiobook platform from Audiofy Corporation." - Steven Hatch

"Friedman describes the four domains of people's lives -- work, home, community and self -- and what individuals can do to integrate these domains and improve their leadership skills at any stage in their careers." - Steven Hatch