…or in other words, how to rent an army of slaves on demand.
Quoting from Amazon Web Services (emphasis mine):
Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce. Developers can leverage this service to build human [...]
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080303-creating-rich-internet-applications-on-linux-with-webkit.html
The title says it all. It mostly talks about WebKit integration on Linux with the open-source GTK and Qt development toolkit. Is it just my idea, or that Internet applications has waaaaaaay too much material to read….
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Amazon Web Services and Amazon Business Solutions. They offer the following infrastructure services for developers:
EC2=Elastic Compute Cloud (Computing/processing in a cloud)
S3 = Storage in a cloud
SQS=Simple Queue Service (Messaging between different parts of applications)
SDB=Simple Database (Database in a cloud)
Flexible Payment Service (Money processing. They don’t call it FPS for some reason )
Above those [...]
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From ajaxian.com
In this podcast interview, Justin discusses all that has to happen on the server side in order to render Ajax and its related technologies on the client side, what the shift toward RESTful-style apps means for developers, why there’s an increased focus on security as it pertains to what ends up in the browser [...]
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