ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 11.04.2008: Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 11.04.2008: Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "instead of just offering applications over the Web in the form of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Amazon and Google are actually offering an entire Platform-as-a-Service because they provide the foundational upon which to build highly scalable and robust Web-based applications"

Tags: amazon, analysis, business, google, saas, webapp

paidContent.org, 06.12.2006: The Economics of Content

paidContent.org, 06.12.2006: The Economics of Content
by Staci D. Kramer: "Amazon is the sole investor in Wikia’s second round. Wikia is the for-profit community wiki company from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who is chairman."

Tags: business, investment, wiki, content, amazon

USAToday.com, 21.11.2006: Amazon's new direction: Point, click, make a product to sell to the world - USATODAY.com

USAToday.com, 21.11.2006: Amazon's new direction: Point, click, make a product to sell to the world - USATODAY.com
by Kevin Maney: "Before long, "user-generated content" won't refer only to media, but to just about anything: user-generated jeans, user-generated sports cars, user-generated breakfast meats. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he has a hard time explaining Amazon's plans to launch virtual start-ups."

Tags: amazon, business, strategy, web2.0, virtual, startup

Techcrunch, 01.12.2006: New Amazon Web Service Coming: “SDS”

Techcrunch, 01.12.2006: New Amazon Web Service Coming: “SDS”
by Michael Arrington: "A new and unannouced Amazon Web Service to be called “SDS” is referenced on this Amazon web page discussing customer YouOS (see second to last paragraph - screen shot is also below) and is being tested with a select few Amazon partners."

Tags: webservice, amazon, web2.0, data, storage