Archive for September, 2008
Who is Mechanical Turk?
I’ve been reading a lot lately about Amazon Mechanical Turk. What’s that you ask? Good question. Mturk, for short, is Amazon’s human-powered marketplace. Just like you can provision servers on demand, with Mturk you provision small work units that you pay people to complete. These are often small tasks, such as a web search or [...]
S3Stat tracks your cloud usage
One of the downsides of Amazon’s S3 service is that the reporting stats you get back are, to the naked eye, tough to decipher. It’s a spreadsheet full of times and values and bytes. It doesn’t give you a clear idea of performance, trends or popularity of items. Enter S3Stat.com. Every night, they will parse [...]
Webinar Registration Deadline
Friday, September 19 is the registration deadline for this webinar. If you haven’t yet registered, please do. On September 24 at 1 p.m. EST, I will be presenting a webinar with HigherEdExperts.com entitled Beyond YouTube: How to host and promote your online videos on the Web. This webinar will provide an overview of the available [...]
