Posts Tagged ‘amazon’

The End of Slideshows: Animoto

UPDATE: Animoto just raised a round of investment from Amazon! Congrats Guys!
Animoto is a great idea. They take your photos and create a production quality video to the music of your choice. Its the end of those boring slide shows, for good.

(From a recent Techcrunch article here)

We had [...]

Agressive Timeouts On External API Calls

One of the challenges with writing a Facebook or Bebo application is staying within a limit it gives you to respond with data before it shows the Application Did Not Respond page to a user. Having a content reach application calling external APIs, like Amazon or YouTube, with response times beyond your control, forces you [...]

Facebook lets money flow

This morning the Chicago Tribune had an article entitled “Facebook lets money flow”, which among other recent articles, outlines something Facebook got right. I spoke with the article’s author Eric Benderoff earlier in the week to discuss Hungry Machine’s monetization strategies on Facebook.
While MySpace has allowed third party companies to embed widgets for [...]