"... is named after the domino effect—one powerful idea spreads down the line, pushing from person to person. The Project represents a fundamental shift in the way books (and digital media based on books) have always been published."

"Whether you are a UK Kindle user or a fan of eBooks in general, we hope you find the information in our Kindle user group both educational and entertaining."

"Anyway, my point is that the Big Six's pig-headed insistence on DRM on ebooks is handing Amazon a stick with which to beat them harder."

"Jeff Bezos’ new tablet, the Kindle Fire, is cheap, pretty, and puts Amazon in perfect position to take a bite out of Apple—and every online transaction you make."

"The best article I've ever read about architecture and the management of IT."

"Publishers are now in direct competition not just with the Kindle, but with Amazon itself."

"And even better: Because readers are always connected, whether it’s a browser, a special app, or a device, each one of these books is surrounded with metadata about how people read them. There’s a graph on every Googlezon book page showing how far people got before losing interest; it’s a much more revealing review than the star rating."

"To overcome this problem while still retaining the reliability and scalability of cloud computing, Amazon introduced the notion of Elastic IPs. An Elastic IP is a static IP address that belongs to your Amazon EC2 account, as opposed to a specific server."

"Using our simple tools, you can instantly send a web page from your web browser or iPhone for reading on your Amazon Kindle. It's simple, free, and opens up a whole new world of content for the Kindle."

"I've noticed an increasing tendency by reviewers on Amazon (and Apple's iTunes and App Stores) to review things based on the packaging or format of the media with little regard shown to the actual content/plot."

Miss L C Warner

"... is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud."

"Voices of Amazon's Anonymous Workforce Mechanical Turk"

"How to aggregate Turker judgments for classification (the threshold calibration trick)."

Forum for people fulfilling 'human intelligence tasks'.

Good post about using Mechanical Turk to pick out attractive designs.

Good recommendations for lenses for the Nikon D40.

List of the top rated reviewers on Amazon.co.uk.

Apparently using Mechanical Turk to identify pictures of products you send in...

Wide-angle lens for the D40.

Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against!: Books: Ulrik Pilegaard,Mike Dooley

The Amazon elastic computing cloud.