Amazon.com Web Services Announces Trio of Milestones - New Tool Kit, Enhanced Web Site and 25,000 Developers in the Program

Amazon.com Web Services Announces Trio of Milestones - New Tool Kit, Enhanced Web Site and 25,000 Developers in the Program "Software Development Kit 3.0 is our best offering to third-parties to date," said Colin Bryar, Amazon.com Director of Web Services and Associates. "We are confident that the rich features available in the new offering and the robust Web site for developers will allow developers to create innovative applications that leverage the Amazon.com platform for merchandising products."

The third party developer program and general web services model showing its usefulness across many markets - shopping, auctions, search, etc.

NapaNews.com | Being tech savvy part of life for Silicon Valley youth

NapaNews.com | Being tech savvy part of life for Silicon Valley youth Instant messaging rules the digital conversation landscape, the survey found. Two-thirds of those online use it, while 40 percent spend time in chat rooms or post to message boards.

The report, Where Next For Mobile Messaging? Driving revenues profitably and controlling cannibalisation, forecasts revenues growing from USD31 billion in 2002 (USD13 billion in Western Europe) to USD69 billion by 2007 (USD25 billion in Western Europe), provided that operators take immediate action to drive service growth and control cannibalisation of existing revenues. Total messaging volumes, comprising SMS, MMS and mobile instant messaging/email, are forecast to quadruple from 670 billion in 2002 (131 billion in Western Europe) to 2600 billion in 2007 (607 billion in Western Europe). (Charts available to journalists on request.)
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"Buddy lists, presence information and integration with fixed network services make mobile instant messaging a potentially attractive service for many. Some mobile instant messaging and email services are being priced at a substantially lower level than SMS. There is a real risk of these services cannibalising existing revenues, and an even greater threat from third-party competitive services."

CMP Media

CMP Media The major enterprise telecommunications providers have also started getting their acts together to migrate their customers to the next generation of converged, IP-based enterprise multi-modal communications.
They have recognized that communicating with people is an enterprise "application", made up of hundreds of features and functions for both telephony call management and messaging. These capabilities are now becoming pure software, which means they will keep evolving forever.
With open standards of IP networking, the various communication servers can now interwork to support all forms of contact with human users, whether as calls or messages, whether in speech or text, and whether originating from people or automated application processes.

Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: The voice of the valley economy

Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: The voice of the valley economy "We decided to use instant messaging to enable our IT department to immediately notify all branch offices about Web site and network issues," Polsgrove said. "Through our research we found that e/pop met our computer security requirements, is completely customizable and leverages our network directory. We instantly know who is online and can blast out specialized macro messages that alert all employees to potential IT issues, which they will receive whether they are logged onto the system or not."

Forbes.com: Party Line

Forbes.com: Party Line One avid user is Teresa Lo. A day trader in Vancouver, B.C., with a large following, Lo pays $280 a month to rent a 200-person PalTalk room, and charges around 180 people $200 apiece each month for passwords that give them access to her room and trading techniques. "It's a great business for us," says Lo, 38.

Who says all the money is in porn? $36K/month - not too shabby for just letting people watch you work, sort of.