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Tekzilla Daily Tip #536: CES 2010: Ultrathin Que ProReader eBook has Newspapers, Magazines and More!!!

Tekzilla Daily Tip #536: CES 2010: Ultrathin Que ProReader eBook has Newspapers, Magazines and More!!!

Posted in Companies, Broadcasting, Amazon, Screencasts

Amazing Que Pro Reader is super slim, bendy, and delivers a full-screen eBook reading experienceIt includes the Wall Street Journal, other magazines, and lets you publish your own books directly to the device. Very cool. Que Pro Reader Homepage

Tags: Technologies, Amazon, Reader, Revision3, Tekzilla, Kindle, Tekzilla Daily Tip, Broadcasting, Screencasts, Companies, Portable, ...


Netflix in the Cloud

Netflix in the Cloud

Posted in Conferences, Companies, Amazon

Summary Adrian Cockcroft discusses the advantages of running Netflix services in Amazon’s cloud, comparing the old data center solution against the new cloud architecture implemented to offer faster, more scalable, more available, and more productive services across the enterprise. Bio Adrian Cockcroft is an architect at Netflix leading the Cloud Systems group. He authored Sun Performance and T...

Tags: Conferences, Amazon, API, InfoQ, Architecture, QCon, Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Performance & Scalability, Companies, Join us!, ...




Designing Enterprise IT Systems with REST

Designing Enterprise IT Systems with REST

Posted in Conferences, Companies, Development, Amazon

Summary REST describes an architectural style that raises the level of abstraction from low-level message passing to hypermedia. Yet this is often the most difficult constraint for architects and developers to understand when designing system-to-system interactions. This session explores the design of Elastra's hypermedia system, which enables the provisioning and management of decentralized IT...

Tags: Conferences, Amazon, EC2, REST, InfoQ, Enterprise Architecture, SOA, QCon, QCon San Francisco 2008, Development, Companies, ...



Tekzilla #85: Kindle 2 Reviewed, Painless Password Management, Dump RAID, iPod Lock Hack, Cheap GPS Pick!

Tekzilla #85: Kindle 2 Reviewed, Painless Password Management, Dump RAID, iPod Lock Hack, Cheap GPS Pick!

Posted in Companies, Broadcasting, Amazon, Screencasts

Manage all your passwords painlessly. Sub-$200 GPS Pick! Stop yourself from visiting a website too often. Dump RAID 1 for RAID 0... or entirely? Welcome to Tekzilla... hands on reviews of the latest tech, and how to make the most out of the gear you already own! The Kindle 2: Reviewed. How does Amazon's latest e-reader hold up to a thousand miles of road trip and hotels with Patrick and his fam...

Tags: Technologies, Amazon, Revision3, Tekzilla, Tekzilla Weekly, Kindle 2, Broadcasting, Screencasts, Companies, I Pod Screen Lock Hack


MIX06: Build Your Own Search Engine

MIX06: Build Your Own Search Engine

Posted in Conferences, Companies, Development, MIX06, Microsoft, Amazon

Amazon subsidiary Alexa.com is leveling the search playing field. For the first time, developers looking to build the next "big thing" in search or an ultra custom search engine have access to the 300 terabytes of Alexa crawl data, along with the utilities to search, process, and publish their own custom subset of the data-all at a reasonable price. Developers no longer need a million dollar bu...

Tags: Conferences, MIX06, Microsoft, Amazon, API, search engine, alexa, Development, Companies


MIX06: Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Using Amazon Mechanical Turk and .NET to Create a Create a New Breed of Web App

MIX06: Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Using Amazon Mechanical Turk and .NET to Create a Create a New Breed of Web App

Posted in Conferences, Technologies, Companies, Development, Frameworks, MIX06, Web Services, Microsoft, Amazon, .NET Framework

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a new Web service that allows .NET software developers to incorporate the power of human decision-making into their automated software systems. Units of work (known as HITs or Human Intelligence Tasks), qualifications necessary for workers to accept the work, and payment information for completing the work are encapsulated and uploaded to www.mturk.com where they becom...

Tags: Conferences, Frameworks, Technologies, MIX06, Microsoft, SOAP, Amazon, REST, .NET Framework, Web Services, Mechanical Turk, ...