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http://800ceoread.com/
800 CEO Read accounts for a large chunk of Seth Godin's early book sales. Online book store, I'm assuming focused on business books.
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http://blog.cfelde.com/2011/05/performance-rackspace-cloud-vs-amazon-web-services/
Interesting article comparing Rackspace and AWS performance when applying high frequency trading strategies against 10 years of archive data. Rackspace io kicks ass, CPU slightly ahead.
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http://cloudcontrol.com/
Scalable PHP PaaS service. Based on the concept of "boxes", which handle 2 simultaneous requests each, and can scale up and down dynamically. So 12 concurrent requests equals 6 boxes. Strange, but potentially cost effective for traffic peaks.
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http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=66
A list of Amazon S3 interface applications provided by Amazon's Developer Connection.
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http://how2i.com/1493/how-to-use-amazon-android-app-store-outside-us
Tips on how to use the Amazon Android google market alternative outside the US. It centres around proxying the IP into the US. Might be possible to tether to a proxied connection, could be simpler.
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http://iamyouruser.blogspot.com/2009/03/ubuntu-eject-kindle.html
Quick tip on how to eject an Amazon Kindle on Ubuntu. sudo eject Kindle (or appropriate device name if you changed it).
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http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/007641.html
A comparison of Amazon S3 backup tools, a mixture of Windows, Linux and Mac options.
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http://just-dnslookup.com/
Check DNS resolution speeds from various places around the world, very useful.
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http://orchestra.io/
PHP PaaS provider based in Ireland, acquired by Engine Yard.
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http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/
Handy list of the ami codes to launch an ubuntu server instance on amazon's EC2.
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http://worldwidebrands.com/
List of drop shippers and wholesalers, claimed 8.2m products (which doesn't mean much). $300 lifetime membership. Seems to be US focused.
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http://www.eucalyptus.com/
On premises cloud computing platform, with an open source angle. Don't fully understand it.
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http://www.hit-builder.com/
This site allows you to use Amazon's Mechanical Turk API to create HITs via their web interface. It is more powerful than Amazon's own interface because it uses the API. Small accounts are free, higher volume accounts cost money.
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http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/One+Pica/extension/1279/one-pica-image-cdn
CDN plugin for Magento that supports Rackspace and Amazon AWS CloudFront. Pushes images on demand, claims to be simple to integrate, and is free.
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http://www.pyrosoft.co.uk/blog/2010/10/27/import-your-own-rsa-ssh-key-into-amazon-ec2/
How to get custom RSA SSH keypairs into EC2. There is one region missing from this post.
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http://www.rightscale.com/
A platform to manage cloud computing resources, deployments, and so on. Essentially a simplified front end for AWS as far as I can make out.
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http://www.s3rsync.com/
Rsync to S3 is a service which combines EC2 and S3 to provide a bandwidth efficient S3 based backup mechanism. It takes advantage of the free bandwidth between EC2 and S3 to overcome the limitations of S3 for rsync backup.
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http://www.salehoo.com/
Listing of around 8'000 businesses that will drop ship. Seems to be primarily US focused, but with a UK tailored sales pitch. Interesting. Hat tip zabubli.com.
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http://www.scalableworkforce.com/
An interface to create jobs on Amazon Mechanical Turk (jobs are called HIT, Human Intelligence Tasks). Provides tools to enhance the functionality of mturk. Unsure of pricing model.
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https://www.createspace.com/
Self publish and get listed on Amazon. Clever... :-)
