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Amazon’s New Notification Feature
Amazon has been slowly and subtly changing the way orders are viewed by users. The new order management page (in beta) gives a lot more information on one page and gives more information on page through AJAX updates. Nice for the user since information can be viewed for multiple orders without the old submit -> [...]
Stuff I Like
People often ask me about my opinions on random products that I’ve either used or bought. But a lot of the products that I absolutely love, people would never know to ask about. So I’ve put together a little Amazon store made up of products that I love. Feel free to peruse the store and [...]
Why the USBCell Isn’t That Great
This is an interesting story about how hype happens on the Internet yet fails to go beneath the surface of the story. So many people are talking about the USBCell product which is currently only available in the UK. Heck, the folks at Buzz Out Loud even talked about it during one of [...]
Online Price Comparisons in the Offline World
I’m a huge fan of online shopping. The convenience of being able to instant price comparisons is a huge benefit. I usually buy stuff on Amazon for a few reasons. First, I have an Amazon Visa card which gives me 3% back on everything I buy on Amazon. Second, I use [...]
Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Part 2
Okay, so the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service isn’t as great as I thought. It is still quite interesting for bursty computing tasks though. It appears that you have to manually request an instance of your application to run. This instance (the examples they talk about are instances of a full [...]
