Brian Kim
philosopher, futurist, pt party animal, pt wallflower and aspiring entrepreneur
Should You Move Your Files to Amazon's New Cloud Drive? Even before last Monday's roll-out of the new Cloud Drive, I was storing my files in the Amazon cloud.
I use Amazon S3, its Simple Storage Service, although admittedly I'm a fairly new customer. I'm using the service to host images for my personal blogs, I haven't uploaded much more than that. Yet. I've been meaning to do so, particularly following the receipt of my first bill for the service, amounting to a whopping $0.09. I have 40 some-odd GB of music that I'd like to store (and be able to play) in the cloud, for example. But the introduction of the Cloud Drive has made me rethink my plans. The Pros of Cloud Drive 1.
Amazon S3 has a pretty lousy interface, and it uses terminology that's likely confusing to many non-developers. The Cloud Player, on the other hand, scans your hard drive looking for music files. 2. At first glance, that price is even competitive with Amazon S3. 3. The final plus in the Cloud Drive column is the free storage of music files you purchase from Amazon. Bill O'Reilly: Jon Stewart 'The Smartest Of The Left-Wingers On Television' Bill O'Reilly had some kind words for frenemy Jon Stewart on his Wednesday show.
He complimented Stewart's recent takedown of President Obama's first campaign video for the 2012 race, and said it was evidence of Stewart going beyond his usual political comfort zone. "You know, he's smart to do that," he told Fox Business Network host Dagen McDowell. Keith9820. A Colorful Weekend. This past weekend, I headed down to Mexico with a group of friends for a bachelor party.
It was a lot like The Hangover — if you replace tigers, Mike Tyson, and Zac Galifianakis with Macs, iPhones, and iPads. CEO pay soars while workers' pay stalls. CEOs didn’t have to cry poor for long.
The heads of the nation’s top companies got the biggest raises in recent memory last year after taking a hiatus during the recession. At a time most employees can barely remember their last substantial raise, median CEO pay jumped 27% in 2010 as the executives’ compensation started working its way back to prerecession levels, a USA TODAY analysis of data from GovernanceMetrics International found. Workers in private industry, meanwhile, saw their compensation grow just 2.1% in the 12 months ended December 2010, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Two years of scaling back amid tough economic times proved temporary as three-quarters of CEOs got raises in 2010 — and, in many cases, the increases were substantial. The sizable pay hikes came even though the economy’s recovery remains frail, unemployment is high and corporate profits last year were roughly flat, up 1.5%, from where they were in 2007 when the stock market peaked.
HTC Beats Nokia in Market Value, Showing Power of Android - Digits. Time Warner Cable Asks Court to Rule on iPad App. Will Facebook Ever Be an E-Commerce Powerhouse?: Tech News and Analysis « A big part of what Facebook sees as its future — and a big justification for the $75-billion market value the company is theoretically being given — is the idea that the giant social network will become an e-commerce powerhouse, producing billions in revenue from retailers and major brands.
But is that realistic? One analyst says no. In fact, Forrester Research’s Sucharita Mulpuru says in a report released Thursday that when it comes to e-commerce and driving substantial amounts of business-to-consumer revenue, Facebook may already be as big a player as it’s ever going to get. According to Mulpuru, who surveyed dozens of retailers large and small about their use (and/or their lack of use) of Facebook as a retail sales channel, “while pockets of opportunity for Facebook do exist, the likelihood that Facebook will ever be ‘the next Google,’ thereby becoming a key sales-driving tool for retailers and creating a reliable revenue stream for Facebook, is unfortunately far-fetched.”