Posted By: scobleizer | Sep 7th, 2005 @ 11:12 PM | 48,042 Views | 14 Comments

The latest rage in Web site development is to "remix" or "mashup" services from a variety of different companies. Amazon's Jeff Barr invited us over to see how developers are using Amazon's Web Services in a variety of ways. To make it even better, yesterday they announced a joint Microsoft/Amazon Web Services Developer Contest where you can win $5,000.

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Cybermagellan
Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything
Scoble,

According to your avatar you seem really serious and professional...according to you videos you seem like you like to have fun and laugh alot I think that is great and I think the Amazon guys do too. They seem really interested in having you there....if you ever leave MS I think you know where you can go.
Cybermagellan
Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything
Holy crap the "Windows" picture site and the music site was sweet!

Very interesting.

I may have to look into Amazon web-services again. I was put off last time because of the difficulties of supporting both amazon.co.uk and amazon.com.

Being from the UK my account is with amazon.co.uk, whilst other visitors to may have a .COM account. It made it very difficult to build a cohesive store front.

I'll have to go and look at the site and see if they've come up with a workable solution.

So we've had visits to Google and Amazon. Where next? Apple hopefully?

Awesome! Great to see that so many companies are now opening themselves towards developers.

This may be a little off topic, but I've always wondered what the Amazon website is written in (apart from HTML, CSS and JavaScript). Does anybody know?
Amazon...great video...thanks for all your hard work Robert. I like the AmazType app...very creative.
jeffbarr
jeffbarr
Scary, eh?
It was a lot of fun to be interviewed by Robert, and I hope that everyone enjoys this video.

Cybermagellan, as you noticed in the video, we do have a lot of fun here, and we are always interested in expanding our team. To learn more about the opening on our team, check out my recent blog post,  Jobs on the Amazon Web Services Team.

Jeff at Amazon.com
Does anyone have the URL for the Life Plasma Web Site???

WOW Cool cool cool Video.

Thanks Scoble.

BTW can you post the URLS for those sites mentioned on the video?

Thanks

Shmuel

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