If you live in Illinois, North Carolina, or Colorado you cannot join Amazon's affiliate program, Amazon Associates. For Illinois residents, after Governor Quinn signed the "Amazon Tax" law in March, Amazon gave Associates until April 15th before it severed all relationships with Illinois-based Amazon Associates. Now that April 15th has come and gone, Illinois residents no … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2011
Amazon Web Services Explains Last Week’s EC2 and RDS Outage
Amazon Web Services has provided a nice long write-up of last week's outage that took down sites like Reddit, Quora, Hootsuite, and Foursquare for a few days. Here are some of the highlights, such as a general summary... The issues affecting EC2 customers last week primarily involved a subset of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (“EBS”) volumes in a single Availability Zone … [Read more...]
Today’s Google Doodle Celebrates The Royal Wedding
Google has gotten a bit carried away with their Google Doodles lately celebrating everything from the 50th anniversary of the first man in space to Harry Houdini's 137th birthday to the 119th anniversary of the ice cream sundae. Critics blame Bing's image of the day for the reason Google has gotten so Doodle-happy lately. Today's Google Doodle celebrates the wedding of Prince … [Read more...]
Flattr Steps Back On Rhetoric To Become More Available
Flattr, the small-donations-add-up-and-drive-content-creation company that I wrote about while it was still in private beta, drives a hard bargain. If you want to receive funds from others, you have to have funds in your account to Flattr others. If you don't use your monthly allotted amount to Flattr others, it will be contributed to charitable causes instead. Starting on May … [Read more...]
Google Apps Reducing Maximum Number Of Users For The Free Version May 10th
Google Apps, which I recommended as a way to make the most of your Gmail account, has a free version that anybody with a domain can setup as long as they have fewer than 50 users. Starting May 10th, that number will be reduced to 10. While this might reduce the infrastructure costs of Google Apps, I fear it might also reduce the adoption of other organizations that need 11 … [Read more...]