November 2007
4 posts
Europe, meet Amazon S3
Amazon announced today that they are opening a new datacenter in Europe. This datacenter will be playing host to a new European S3. The goal of this move was to address the concerns that the AWS suite of services were not well suited for global users. S3 has been getting some negative reviews by many Europeans as idealistic and impractical with the primary justification being the terrible...
OpenSocial and Ruby
OpenSocial was released late in the evening on Thursday, November 1st with much fanfare. MySpace is now boasting an API, as does Orkutt, and LinkedIn among many others. This is great! Facebook has revolutionized social widgets with the release of their API. Its exciting to see the possibility of expanding the coverage of these widgets across all of the major (and minor) networks. ELC...