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Amazon explains what caused their S3 outage last week.

Amazon S3 is down so we take a look at the cloud and what it means when your customer sees your site go down and it’s really, truly not your fault.

John Resig announces the creation of the Firebug Working Group, and that he’ll be spending 50% of his Mozilla time on Firebug development.

We look at how open source can help government operate more efficiently, more effectively and more accurately.

HTML 5 is coming, at some point. So we look far down the road and explore some of the features it will bring us. When it finally gets here. 10 or so years from now.

ICANN squashed the ability to taste domains for free and opened up TLD registration.
.synapse can now be ours, for the small price of nearly half a million bucks.

GigaOM caught up with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos at the D6 conference this week. A lot of people on Wall Street have been struggling to make the somewhat obvious connection between Amazon as a retailer and Amazon as a web service provider. The background to the concept is really pretty self-evident: Amazon needed to develop amazing tools for their own internal scalability and data management needs and in doing so, determined they could scale those tools, make them available to developers for their own applications and commoditize the marketplace.

A good amount of shopping these days is done online, but any developer knows that creating eCommerce websites is not a simple or mundane task. To cook up your own solution can take months of designing, coding, testing and headaches and there is no guarantee that you, your client, or your client’s customers will really benefit from your labors.