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JULY 15, 2006

If done well a graph representation of data can reveal a lot of information about the structure of the data. And with particular care graphs can even become art. Sala has achieved this by building a very nice graph representation applet for web pages. If you visit this posting you’ll see some really cool graph representations.

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JULY 9, 2006

Zidane is a brilliant player, so it is sad to see his international career end this way. It was a very bizarre moment in an otherwise rather open match. Italy ruled during the first half, but the French had control over the second half and the extra time. Again Henry showed that he is not the cold killer he should be.

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JULY 26, 2006

I promised at Supernova I would give an update on the integration of Amazon.com (through Amazon.com E-Commerce Web Services) into Second Life: Jeff Barr has the scoop and demonstrates it on the Amazon Web Services Weblog. As expected it was a complete grassroots effort with no official Amazon involvement. Go visit the life2life store now (yes that is second life url, you need the program installed to use this as a locator).

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JULY 16, 2006

I really enjoy spending time at comics.com and gocomics.com. On comics.com there is a category list of all comics and editorial cartoons available on their site. On gocomics there is a separate list for comics and editorial cartoons. Both sites offer interesting subscription models.

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JULY 14, 2006

Wow! 20.1 inch screen & 20.8 pounds; Introducing the Dell XPS M2010. I have been looking for a new laptop but for some reason I don’t see myself walking around with this one. It will be an interesting challenge to open it up in your economy airplane seat. Base price $3800.

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JULY 13, 2006

Yesterday the Amazon Simple Queue Service moved from beta to production. SQS provides persistent messaging with the scalability and reliability of Amazon’s infrastructure. As a developer you can create an unlimited number of Queues and store unlimited messages in a Queue. As usual we manage your data in highly reliable fashion, capable of surviving complete data center failures.

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JULY 11, 2006

Today was a good news day: Geoff Arnold has decided to join the Amazon engineering family. As Geoff mentions in the announcement on his weblog Amazon is all about scale. In recent presentations I have been demonstrating how Amazon Engineers are scalability experts who can take any concept idea and turn it into a service that can serve hundreds of customers and then grow it seamlessly to support hundreds of millions of customers.

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