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Amazon continues to amaze me with the work they are doing in their Amazon Web Services unit. What Amazon is doing with Web Services, S3, their “elastic computing cloud,” the Mechanical Turk, etc… seems to me like it’s from the future. It’s the most exciting thing on the Web right now. They are technologies, completely orthogonal from their traditional business of selling hard goods, that are enabling innovation and new businesses to grow up around them.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 14:56 under Web
Tags: amazon, FOWA, FOWA07

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Wow. This is big. This is a big room filled with Web developers, entrepreneurs, managers, etc… (helpfully color-coded on their badges). Easily 500 people here. Probably more. All the chairs are filled up and I’m sitting on the floor. I think I forgot how big these things can get, and I forgot how much bigger the general Web community is compared to the mobile community.

Great presentation from last.fm. Big message was: design your service as a platform (open APIs). Allow others to build stuff on top of what you’re doing - that promotes growth. Great sutff.

Due to speak tomorrow on future of mobile web applications… I think this might be the largest audience I’ve spoken in front of (assuming they all show up tomorrow). Even bigger than Fundamentos Web which was already pretty big.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 14:34 under Web
Tags: FOWA, FOWA07

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