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Amazon’s web services business has sparked a number of business opportunities. Using EC2 and S3 is not especially easy for a beginner, but scalable web architectures aren’t a place for the weak hearted geek.
Enter Scalr. This is an open source project meant to make building a scalable, fault tolerant system on Amazon’s services [...]

I am working on a quick Facebook application for a company called Flat World Knowledge. Basically I have 4 days to build the application - it has to be done by Tuesday. Because of the simplicity of deployment on Morph Exchange I decided to deploy the application on their platform. I don’t [...]

David Wiley pointed me to PicLens a few days ago. It is fun way to view online images. Immediately I saw the potential use for viewing house plans. We already have data feeds in RSS and Atom setup all over the site so I figured it wouldn’t be hard to integrate the [...]

I recently wrote about Cloud Computing. Alain Benedict from Morph Exchange told me that I neglected to add his company to the list. I said I would check it out. He said he would hold me to it. Last night I spent a little quality with Morph and now have a [...]

One of the most difficult tasks when putting up a new site is picking the right host. Moving hosts later on is terribly difficult so choosing the correct hosting company is as important as selecting a business partner. I’ve collected about 30 hosting companies in my delicious bookmarks. Some are specific to [...]

I know that adding GPS to cameras will add cost to the unit but it seems like the perfect marriage. With the GPS data embedded inside the exif data you won’t have to tag your vacation with ‘Yellowstone National Park’. Instead, your photos can show up on a Google map or be set [...]

A long time ago people figured out that if you used coins for trading instead of chickens you could build up a complex economy. The coins usually consisted of something precious themselves. Not to long ago society moved towards a more abstract notion of currency and found it was easier to produce dollars [...]

I have been pitching this idea of a distributed social network to everyone that can stand to listen to me. I realize that the conversation around Wordpress and the future of social networking is heating up, but as it does I think it is important to begin thinking about implementation. It is fun [...]

I wrote three Facebook apps and I have ideas for several more. The most successful was the House Plans application I did for ThePlanCollection.com, but in the Facebook world you can’t count a couple thousand users as especially successful.
When Open Social started up I felt like I needed to go sign up [...]

We got a call today at The Plan Collection that was interesting. A guy was trying to print out one of our pages. Each time he tried his browser would crash. At first I thought, “that is just nuts. Html can’t crash your browser.” Then Jake tried it and it [...]