Amazon has a program called Kindle Publishing for Blogs that allows your blog to be subscribed to and updates to be automatically delivered to subscribed Kindles. While the Kindle subscriptions won't make you rich, the program is a good way of getting your site out there and offers a convenient way for some of your visitors to keep up on your site. Kindle Blogs are … [Read more...]
AT&T U-Verse and DSL Bandwidth Caps Go Into Effect Today. Happy Net Loss Day!
Announced in March, today is the day when AT&T catches up with Comcast by also placing a monthly limit on how much bandwidth a customer can use from their "unlimited" services before facing steep overage charges. DSL customers will have a cap of 150 gigabytes per month and U-Verse customers will have a cap of 250 gigabytes per month, which matches Comcast's current limit. … [Read more...]
How Illinois Bloggers Can Still Make Revenue From Recommending Products on Amazon
If you live in Illinois, North Carolina, or Colorado you cannot join Amazon's affiliate program, Amazon Associates. For Illinois residents, after Governor Quinn signed the "Amazon Tax" law in March, Amazon gave Associates until April 15th before it severed all relationships with Illinois-based Amazon Associates. Now that April 15th has come and gone, Illinois residents no … [Read more...]
Amazon Web Services Explains Last Week’s EC2 and RDS Outage
Amazon Web Services has provided a nice long write-up of last week's outage that took down sites like Reddit, Quora, Hootsuite, and Foursquare for a few days. Here are some of the highlights, such as a general summary... The issues affecting EC2 customers last week primarily involved a subset of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (“EBS”) volumes in a single Availability Zone … [Read more...]
Flattr Steps Back On Rhetoric To Become More Available
Flattr, the small-donations-add-up-and-drive-content-creation company that I wrote about while it was still in private beta, drives a hard bargain. If you want to receive funds from others, you have to have funds in your account to Flattr others. If you don't use your monthly allotted amount to Flattr others, it will be contributed to charitable causes instead. Starting on May … [Read more...]