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Jeff Barr
6 CommentsChris and I interview Jeff Barr from Amazon. We are still working on the recording quality, episode 7 should be better.
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- Jeff Bar, Web Services Evangelist
- sydic8.com, RSS feed directory
- Microsoft big not bad
- Scoble visits Jeff at Amazon
- Amazon web services contest
- 3 different web services
- ECS, E-Commerce Service
- AWIS, Alexa Web Information Service
- SQS, Simple Queue Service (Beta)
- Build your own Amazon
- developer-books.com
- Based on a script, Associate-O-Matic
- Another AWS script, mrrat.com, free
- liveplasma.com, flash interface
- How to get an evangelist gig
- 120,000 developers have signed up for an AWS id
- Internal Amazon developers use the same api as the public
- Managing a huge project via open source principles
- Release early release often
- Frequent, incremental releases
- Create a community and listen to them
- Amazon survives the bubble
- Back to headline viewer, started in late 90’s
- Every known rss feed at the time, 800-900 feeds
- Lead to syndic8.com community
- 80,000 lines of PHP, 200 GB mysql data
- Early morning and late night labor of love
- Dual proc server, 3 gigs of ram, 0.5 terabyte disk
- Host with us! :)
- Easy entry to building a web service with cheap hosting
- Work on your project 10 minutes at a time
- Turn off the tv and wake up an hour earlier, make it happen
- txtfo.com
- Interact with advertisers via sms
- Text for product info
- Jeff on web 2.0
- Opportunities looking for people
- Business model question actually important now
- Cool stuff coming, see amazon.com/aws and AWS Blog
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