Links, Links, and More Links

I'm attacking my inbox with a shovel; here are just a few of the things I found within:

• First off, Rich Lafferty enumerates the most expensive things at Amazon. Fortunately, the $40,000 Super Bowl XL Opus MVP Edition is available for free shipping. There are 3 in stock as I write this, so be sure to order soon!
• WeoGeo's WeoCeo product simplifies the management of Amazon EC2 instances. As the configuration file notes, "Utilizing a statistical reporting daemon on the WeoCEO clients, the WeoCEO server can calculate statistics on the overall system load. WeoCEO is designed to work in a homogenous networking environment, where each image launched is responsible for largely the same tasks."
• David Berlind asks, "Is it time to throw away your servers?" You will have to watch the video to see what conclusions he reaches. Entertaining and informative, not to mention colorful!
• Smartsheet.com is an innovative task, project, and process tracker that just happens to use Amazon S3 for storage and Amazon EC2 for processing. They are also using the Amazon Mechanical Turk to solicit suggestions for new types of project templates. You can find the HIT here.
• Blake Schwendiman wrote to tell me about his Instant Amazon gadget for the Google desktop and the Google Desktop/Sidebar.
• I'm not sure how to describe Justin.tv! Justin is wearing a video camera and recording every minute of his life, and posting the videos to this EC2-powered site.

-- Jeff;

Comments

[chao]

Check out our MySpace profile layout and background editor, Coolchaser (http://coolchaser.com) It's served by EC2 and S3. It's been a joy developing on Amazon's APIs. We only wished the customer support were a little more responsive!

[Paul Bissett]

Thanks for the WeoCEO post Jeff. (Note you can also find it directly at http://www.weoceo.com.)

The Berlind video is great and mirrors a post I made earlier this week (http://blogs.weogeo.com/pbissett/2007/03/21/cycles-in-the-sky). His video is far more entertaining.

See a recent post for some of the issues that I think we need to overcome in cluster and grid computering. However, I think as a community we will overcome these issues, and we look forward to the coming "revolution"!