All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

A popular request has been to make more of the Amazon product data available as easy widgets for reuse on blogging, social network and associates websites. You can now find a nice collection of different widgets at [link] Some of these were already available for associates, but there are some really nice new ones.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

US based IT departments are facing turbulent times. The cost efficiencies achieved through global sourcing face a triple threat to their fundamentals: The USD has eroded in value relative to other currencies in the past 6 years 1 – this means the USD doesn’t buy as much global sourcing capacity as it did 6 years ago, particularly vis-à-vis its peer consumer currencies.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

As a follow-up to the keynote I gave at the Next Generation Datacenter Conference the folks at Network World organized an online chat, to happen for an hour tomorrow (October 1) from 11-12 PST. I have never done something like this before so it will be fun to see how good my typing skills are, but at least I get to sneak out of a very long meeting for an hour.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2007

I just finished reading the Wired interview with Ridley Scott about Blade Runner, the ultimate film noir. The movie is certainly one of my favorites and I own several editions of it. Of course I now also want this “final cut version”, hoping that it would be available in HD.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

In the recent years Mike Stonebraker has been advocating that the current commercial databases have become one-size-fits-all tools that are so general and heavy-weight that they do not excel in any particular area. Mike has written some papers on this topic of comparing general databases with specialized storage engines in areas of data-warehousing, text search, stream processing and scientific processing.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Since Saturday morning you can help search for Steve Fossett through Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Click here to get to the start page and then press the "Work on HITs" button to start reviewing satellite images. As with the search for Jim Gray, this is only possible because of the collaboration of several organizations.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

The beta of the long awaited DRM free Amazon music store is ready for use. Go download!

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