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First Look at Clickriver - Amazon's Pay Per Click(Sponsored Link) Advertising Program for Service Providers

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:52:01 -0800

Clickriver Ads, the sponsored links program from Amazon, lets service providers reach active shoppers on Amazon.com via pay per click advertising. For example, for a lawyer, he can advertise his service targeting users in his region that browses and searches for legal books on Amazon. Amazon has a good "How it works" page.

Here's my impression with Clickriver:

Clickriver structures your ppc marketing with the hierarchy of campaigns and ads. * A campaign with a daily budget can hold multiple ads.

Tags: google yahoo amazon adwords ppc msn service clickriver panama adcenter advertising

Amazon Web Services(AWS) Finally Offers Persistent Storage(Elastic Block Store)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:29:19 -0700

Today, Amazon announces Elastic Block Store(EBS). This is the final missing piece in their cloud computing offering.

RightScale wrote two very good blogs explaining EBS:

Clearly, RightScale has been testing EBS for quite a while prior ASW announced persistent storage support back in Apri.

Tags: amazon hosting aws s3 ec2 vps

Amazon Gold Box 5% Off Trick: Apple Macbook Pro for $1452, Macbook Air for $1654

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:10:32 -0800

Apple released new generation of MacBook a couple days ago. Amazon has slashed its price on "previous" generation of MacBook and offers rebates as well.

Here's a trick outlined by rabidrobin at SlickDeals to manipulate(aka influence) Amazon recommendation system to offer your desired products as your daily gold box deals:

Create a new account
Go to the product page for an applecare for macbook pro
scroll down until you find the "I Own it" checkbox, and check it
At the top of the screen, click on Recommendations
Go through the list of 20-30 or so recommended items and click "Not Interested" for the ones that aren't macbook pros

Tags: amazon apple macbook deal macbook_air macbook_pro laptop mac trick gold_box discount recommendation

MySql Storage Engine for Amazon S3

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:55:01 -0800

On Scribd, I found the following presentation on using Amazon S3 as a storage medium for MySQL 5.1. Exciting stuff as S3 can act as a infinite disk. If it works out, it's going to be very valuable for MySQL running on EC2 as file system storage on a EC2 instance is gone once the instance goes down.

Tags: amazon mysql aws s3

Amzon S3 & Other Storage as A Service Providers

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:01:10 -0700

Amazon S3 has been out for a while. And the competition is heating up in the storage as a service market.

S3 in general:

99.9% service level guarrantee (only have had SLA recently since Oct. 8th, 2007)
no worry of hardware failure, data redundancy
one and only one master secret key. I would like to be able to create separate secret key for different applications so if one application got compromised, other applications won't be compromised
can't control bandwidth overage. Can be a real problem if your competitors are leeching your S3 bandwidth that you pay for every bit

Tags: amazon aws s3 joyeur bingodisk layeredtech box.net nirvanix mediamax

Amazon.com requested siteinfo.xml? Welcome! A9.com Toolbar Users

Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:37:29 -0800

I checked the site log today, and found an attempted access to "siteinfo.xml" from a IP powered by Amazon.com.

It turned out that siteinfo.xml is requested by A9.com browser toolbar. siteinfo.xml defines the menu items accessible under "Site Info" drop-down menu under A9.com browser toolbar. More information can be found here.

so I created my "siteinfo.xml" file. Enjoy the customized site info menu, A9.com toolbar users.

Tags: a9 amazon siteinfo