Archive: May, 2009
Web 6.0
As someone or many have mentioned in What is ‘Web 3.0,’ and should you care?, Web 1.0 was about making information available. Web 2.0 was about connecting, communicating, collaborating, social networking, individual and group publishing, blogging, crowd-sourcing and the transformation of traditional media. In the 2.0 period, we started to see the rise of cyber [...]
Read moreStanford CS 193P: iPhone Application Programming
Got a Mac and want to have a bit of iPhone application programming fun? Check out this Stanford course, CS 193P: iPhone Application Programming. While you are at it, check out Stanford on iTunes U.
Read moreA Date with the CloudFront Operations Manager
After running some tests on Amazon CloudFront globally, our team’s conclusions have landed me a date with the CloudFront Operations Manager. In a nutshell, our test results concluded: We were testing using CF/S3 to deliver content faster to customers in geographic regions different than our server. One would expect the downloads to be (noteworthy) faster [...]
Read moreDrinking the Koolaid at Magmasystems
Oh, how I am laughing today. FIrst, I was rolling on the floor about online salami attacks at E-Trade and Schwab, now kindred-spirt blogger Marc Adler at Citigroup has me laughing with his recent CEP marketing hype: You know that it’s been a good week for CEP when the Times starts covering it. – Marc [...]
Read moreCreative E-Trade and Similar Salami Scams – Ignorance is Bliss
Here is one of my favorite news stories of the week, Guilty Plea for Man Behind Creative E-Trade Scam. In this funny story, Michael Largent, 23, of Plumas Lake, CA, wrote a simple Internet script that opened more than 58,000 online accounts at places like E-trade and Schwab. Largent used fake names to automatically [...]
Read moreWolframAlpha a Google Killer? Not!
Like many of you, I have been reading some of the hype about WolframAlpha as if this new website is a potential Google killer. Where in the world do these fools come from? Anyway, I admit that I had to try it out for myself. First of all, WolframAlpha is not a search engine, it [...]
Read moreAnnouncing Amazon CloudWatch, AutoScaling and Load Balancing
AWS has announced the public beta of three new features for Amazon EC2: Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring AWS cloud resources, Auto Scaling for automatically growing and shrinking capacity based on demand, and Elastic Load Balancing for distributing incoming traffic across Amazon EC2 compute instances.
Read moreMahout on Elastic MapReduce: Running k-means Clustering
Following up on KMeans Clustering Now Running on Elastic MapReduce, Stephen Green has generously documented the steps that was necessary to get an example of k-Means clustering up and running on Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce (EMR) on the Apache Lucene Mahout wiki. Mahout on Elastic MapReduce by Stephen Green As a side note, there has been [...]
Read moreUploading Data to Amazon S3 Using CloudFront
Uploading data, for example your off-site backup files, to Amazon S3 is easier than you might think. Here are some basic steps with links. First, set up an Amazon AWS account if you don’t already have one. You will need a credit card (of course!). Then, create your Access Key and Secret Key (Access Identifiers). [...]
Read moreCloudFront LogAnalyzer on Amazon Elastic MapReduce
The Amazon Elastic MapReduce team has a sample application, CloudFront LogAnalyzer, designed to analyze Amazon CloudFront access logs. This tool provided users with the power of Amazon Elastic MapReduce to quickly turn access log data into actionable intelligence. Access logs are activity records about all requests delivered through Amazon CloudFront and contains a valuable set [...]
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