ProgrammableWeb pointed out an InformationWeek story that claimed 28% of Amazon’s sales in early 2005 were attributable to Amazon affiliates. And C|net claims Amazon now has 180,000 AWS developers (up from the 140,000 Amazon was claiming about a year ago).
(Note: not every Amazon affiliate/associate is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer, but Amazon hasn’t [...]

Posted March 29, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: amazon api, amazon web services, Amazon.com, api, AWS, developers, earnings, mashups. One Comment.

A: Because we compare them to the wrong things.
I’m in training today for a piece of software used in libraries. It’s the second of three days of training and things aren’t going well. Some stuff doesn’t work, some things don’t work the first (second, third…ninth) time, and other things just don’t make sense. At [...]

Posted May 4, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: bad answers, compare, comparison, competition, crap, developers, development, failure, future libraries, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, software, startups, suck, sucks, sucky, training, vendors. 14 Comments.

As with all my other presentations, the my slides tell less than half the story, but I’ve posted them anyway. I’m told the audio was recorded, and there’s a chance that will help explain all this, but until then you’ll have to piece this all together from my previous writings, what little I’m about to [...]

Posted February 22, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: code4lib, coders, developers, future libraries, great wall of standards, isolation, libraries, library, library 2.0, population density, presentation, programmers, standards, sustainability, sustainable development, wpopac. 2 Comments.