Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 30, 2010

I’ve been getting to know Amazon S3 lately, and there are some great things about it. Tags: CMS Linux amazon aws backup drupal s3. I think it is one of the long list of unpredicted successes that resulted from the near-ubiquitousness of open source software on the server side.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 21, 2011

For a while there, the two big players on the field were Amazon on one side, with it’s Kindle and proprietary format, which is an offshoot of MobiPocket format, and a reader that has a fairly limited range of formats it can read. Both Amazon and Barnes and Noble have DRM in their book formats. So what happens next?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2010

For instance, the reason there are so many links about Amazon is that we are now beginning a project that uses amazon in earnest, with some others possibly on the way. Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Amazon EC2 API Tools. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. PolicyTool for Social Media. Data Robotics, Inc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

If you want to put your book into formats that the widest variety of people will be able to read, think about these two important factors: Distribution avenues : Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google and Apple, would be the ones I’d focus on, as well as whatever other avenues you want to use to get your electronic files out there.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 14, 2011

For those folks in a position to choose which database software to use, (for example, you use VPS systems like Amazon, Slicehost, Linode, etc.,) They depend upon their hosting providers, for whom it may or may not be an issue – but they won’t have to think about it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Closed – can’t upload open document formats Can only buy books from Amazon I’m still not clear about what happens when you buy your 201st book – do you have to throw out one? Sorry, Amazon. Amazon has this thing sewed up tight, whereas books are to be shared. Kindle is a bust for me. { at 1:52 pm Thanks!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2009

There are now a number of cloud hosting service providers, such as Rackspace cloud servers (used to be Mosso), Slicehost, and Amazon, that are beginning to support libcloud. Libcloud has become it’s own open source project, and is under active development.

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