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Monthly Archives: August 2006

Why the most significant online infrastructure play of August wasn’t Elastic Computing

August 29, 2006 – 10:34 pm

Judging by the reaction to last week’s release of Elastic Computing by Amazon one might think they had done something that will redefine computing as we know it. In fact, it looks more like they have built a nice provisioning model around VPS hosting. Solving operational issues is worth noting of course, but I think [...]

By Nick | Posted in Google, apis, web 2.0 | Comments (3)

AOL Data - The Analysis

August 27, 2006 – 11:46 pm

Unless you have been living under a rock you are probably aware that AOL released 2.2 GB of their search logs to the general public in early August. Obviously there were some fairly serious privacy implications which AOL apparently failed to consider before releasing the data. Now the AOL research site (research.aol.com) has been shut down, [...]

By Nick | Posted in search, web 2.0 | Comments (9)

Welcome

August 26, 2006 – 1:30 am

Welcome to WWWScope.

By Nick | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)