"After you've "installed" your bookmarklet by dragging it to your browser's link toolbar, you can use it to look up books at your local library. Let's say you're on a book-related site (Amazon, BN, isbn.nu) and your current page's URL includes an ISBN. (Choose a hardcover edition for best results -- see tips below.) You can click your bookmarklet to check if the book is available in your local library. The bookmarklet will invoke your library's lookup service, feed it the ISBN, and pop up a new window with the result." Every public library should offer this feature by default.

awesome, great use of an affiliate account too

Provides an ISBN 13 lookup

"Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)."

"You make a bucket on Amazon S3, filled with MP3s. When someone visits your S3 Radio station, it builds a playlist from the contents of the bucket and starts streaming it to the listener, in a random order."

"Eventually Consistent - Building reliable distributed systems at a worldwide scale demands trade-offs between consistency and availability."

"SimpleDB/dev provides a local SimpleDB server, so you can develop offline, without even currently having a SimpleDB account. "

Fun, Amazon S3 will work seamlessly with a CDN by the end 2008.

Yuck.

Amazon is adding statistics to their book pages.