Amazon launched S3 in mid March and yesterday claimed to manage over 800 millions data objects. It is indeed a successful and quick start. I agree with Marshall Kirkpatrick that, besides being a good business model, services like S3 are also a key factor for innovation. They make true the dream of a solo developer able to deploy an AJAX application to the web without worrying about how to scale it out, if it becomes popular.
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Microsoft, on the other hand, is diving into RSS
I’ve been following closely all the announcements from Microsoft about the integration of RSS into the next versions of Internet Explorer (7.0) and Windows (Longhorn). All started at Gnomedex with some excited anticipation from Dave Winer

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