Platform Truths
# Platform owners have the power
# Innovations migrate into the platform
# Some platform owners want to control the whole system
# Platform owners need their applications, but they are destined to absorb the best of them into the platform.

Amazon S3 gets a SLA - nice. 99.9% uptime guarantee with a couple of pegs to evaluate your own performance.

I don’t know that I fully buy into the 4-hour work week, but the idea of supporting and expanding literacy can’t be argued with.

The inside scoop on building your next iPhone web application

This article shows you step-by-step how easy it is to integrate Amazon S3 into your Rails application, using freely available tools, and shows you how to keep your total costs to a minimum.

Accessible News Slider is a JavaScript plugin built for the jQuery library.
It meets the accessibility requirements as outlined by WCAG 1.0.

From 2002 to 2006, some 40 percent of Web 2.0 deals were located in the Bay Area. That figure dropped to just 20 percent during the first half. Even New England drew more money for Web 2.0 deals than Silicon Valley, according to the survey.

A Hpricot-based library for Amazon E-Commerce Services

A good overvoew, from the source, about how to deploy your Ruby on Rails application to the Amazon stack.

A quick look at how to customize the file storage conventions of attachment_fu

Streaming video has a similar cost structure to many text- and graphics-based Internet businesses, with three significant additional costs: bandwidth, storage, and transcoding. Each of these items increases the costs associated with video streaming…

Detailed notes on getting Flickr integration working for your Ruby on Rails applcation

Nice gallery of logos. Inspiration for the masses.