My web 2.0 app. Powered by EC2. - update
Got this in my mailbox from Amazon this morning:
…
Just as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enables storage in the
cloud, Amazon EC2 enables “compute” in the cloud. Amazon EC2’s simple web
service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal
friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources
and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2
reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to
minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your
computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of
computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use.…
This will definitely result in some very nifty new apps: no more fixed server costs, but truly dynamical, based on the amount of traffic you get. Every one says Google is the most innovative company when it comes to new web services. To the end-user, that’s perhaps the case. But I think Amazon is definitely surpassing Google when it comes to providing the services necessary for creating The Next Web 2.0 Killer app. First S3, now EC2. Amazon does have other web services available, but I think many will agree with me that these are the most revolutionary ones.
The main difference with Sun’s Grid Compute Utility is the scale: Sun’s Grid Compute Utility is basically ‘rent-a-grid’ on demand, while Amazon’s EC2 is more ‘rent-a-server’-esque.
Unfortunately this is a limited beta, and I was too late… I will definitely track EC2, also here at my blog. I bet it will be very beneficial for Amazon in the end! (In let’s say 5 years from now.)
UPDATE
I forgot to mention one of the main features: the price. The price is very reasonable (as is S3’s pricing scheme): $0.10/hour. That’s only $2.40 for a day. I’d say that’s incredibly cheap for keeping your website online during a traffic peek!
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So THAT is how to get rich fast!
The “Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator” will generate “bullshit-compliant products and services” with the click of a button. I also appreciate that the creator has included links to related services to give the budding entrepreneur all of the tools they need to “sell your company to Yahoo”.
Use Bullshitr to define your product
Use Buzzphrase Generator for your marketing materials
Name your company with Andrew Woolridge’s Web 2.0 Company Name Generator
Create your logo with the Web 2.0 Logo Generator
Sell your company to Yahoo
Repeat
Very funny stuff. My bullshit was “disintermediate blogging platforms” which sounds pretty good to me.
Let’s deceive those search engines…
AppZapper 1.3 will be released today. The uninstaller Apple forgot has teamed up with MacZOT.com to run a special promotion for the release of their latest version featuring the new QuickZap™
AppZapper 1.3 is FREE! (or will be if we get at least 259 bloggers to mention it)
For each blog that posts a link to MacZOT.com, they’ll drop the price for everybody by $0.05 (Blog links should be posted to the Comment section at http://maczot.com/discuss/?p=35#comments
Our goal is to give away 1,000 copies of AppZapper to Mac users around the world. So, every Blog entry will be worth about $50.00 to the community.
Once they reach at least 259, AppZapper will be priced at $0.00 (FREE) to everybody who registers at MacZOT.com or sends a simple email to BlogZOT@maczot.com after the time it becomes FREE.
GET STARTED! Email your favorite bloggers and tell them to blog up MacZOT so everyone can benefit! And then: Grab your copy of AppZapper 1.3 with the new QuickZap feature from http://maczot.com
NOTE: AppZapper 1.3 will not be available until about 3:00 am PST. However, blog posts can begin immediately.
NOTE: This offer expires at 11:59 on April 03, 2006
Or… how a small company has yet invented another way to deceive the search engines. Obvioulsy, because they were the first one (at least as far as I know) to apply this kind of ‘advertisement’, they don’t need many blog entries: this will be a story on its own. After entering apple uninstall software as keywords at Google, the first result linking to AppZapper was on the 7th place. I predict this will be at least the fifth place by next week.
Probably In the future, there will probably be more of these campaigns, with requirements of at least 1000, 2000 or even 10000 blog posts. 10,000 links can make a difference for the search results, I think.
Now the most interesting part: how will the search engines filter blogposts caused by an advertisement campaign (’the bad’) from the ones that simply review or talk about a product (’the good’)? Or will they eventually just shut out all blogs from the ranking system, and only make them searchable in the blog search only?
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