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Dimensions of Reputation in Electronic Markets

scoundrel — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:12:18 GMT

Google Tech Talks
September 25, 2007

ABSTRACT

his is based on a pair of papers. The idea is that reputation systems in electronic markets capture complex and multidimensional information about seller ability. Buyers are also likely to value different dimensions differently. Simply reporting an average score seems narrow. The research identifies different dimensions by mining reputation text feedback, clustering it and scoring it using actual premiums in price sellers transact at. The first study estimates a series of econometric models to show how price variation can be explained better by this richer view of reputation (it also provides evidence that buyers actually care about different things). The second study builds a predictive model that uses the theory and techniques to predict future sales on Amazon.com.

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Microsoft MIX07: Amazon Web Services: Building a 'Web-Scale Computing' Architecture

scoundrel — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:38:25 GMT

Building a reliable, flexible architecture that can manage the unpredictable nature of today's internet business is challenging. Jeff Barr, Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, will provide the blueprint for 'Web-Scale Computing' - enabling you to utilize Amazon Web Services to build an elastic architecture that can quickly respond to demand. Barr will demonstrate code samples to show you how to build your application on Amazon Web Services' simple APIs. Barr will also showcase real companies who have built their web apps on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

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YAPC::ASIA: Inside Net::Amazon::EC2

scoundrel — Sat, 05 May 2007 18:48:42 GMT

Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a revolutionary way to dynamically expand and shrink server capacity. Net::Amazon::EC2 provides a way to manage your EC2 from Perl. This talk covers the powerful combination of Perl and EC2.

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Ruby On Rails: AWS S3

scoundrel — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:32:31 GMT

Jordan Fowler gives a presentation on Amazon’s S3 service. He also covers the AWS::S3 gem written by Marcel Molina Jr.

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Setting up and Running Amazon EC2 from Windows

scoundrel — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:27:09 GMT

A video that walks through the process of running an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from Windows.

See the Getting Started Guide and the related technical documentation for a written version of these steps. Also, check out the attached transcript of the video, courtesy of CastingWords and Amazon Mechanical Turk.

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