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Earlier today I realized that I still haven’t read Book 10 of the Dresden Files series. Considering how much I’ve loved this series, I figured I should remedy that little omission ASAP. After all, it has been out for several months now.

Since I’m still a huge fan of the µBook ebook reader, I figured I’d first have a try at buying it online electronically.

• Google launches its Official Traditional Media Blog
• Google Apps save One million pounds for UK construction firm
• Google now “captures” Flash Content
Source: Tech Bytes at Use Bytes

Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay argues in a 310-page report entitled “US Internet: The End of the Beginning” to be published on Tuesday that Google and Amazon are best placed to withstand the current economic downturn.

This is the great prediction -

How to use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to build self-healing applications ?

Here is tutorial video link

and here are some resources

Here is some food for thought on the Amazon Web Services Blog. We have graph showing how much bandwidth Amazon Web Services consumes compared to Amazon.com retail sites combined.

Source - Amazon Web Services Blog

They built a Barnes and Nobles within a few miles of my home and it’s really a stunning store. I seem to always have a difficult time actually finding my books there, though. Borders seems to have a more finite means of organizing their shelves.

Anyways, I really enjoy both stores but I’ve found myself at Barnes and Nobles more often because they have a Starbucks that has Wireless with AT&T. I haven’t been to Borders for a while - I’m hoping that they’ve got access besides T-Mobile as well.

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As many blogs have already reported Google has just launched the App Engine project.

In a few words, Google App Engine will let you build a full stack and automatically scalable web application hosted on their premises.

This is what Google is saying about the project:

Today we’re announcing a preview release of Google App Engine, an application-hosting tool that developers can use to build scalable web apps on top of Google’s infrastructure. The goal is to make it easier for web developers to build and scale applications, instead of focusing on system administration and maintenance

Source: .Dust

Next up on the reading list (which is really piling up) is Gravitational Marketing.