SixApart Acquires SplashBlog

It looks like SixApart has acquired SplashBlog, the mobile photo-blogging site created by SplashData (creators of several nice mobile applications). The press release was light on details, but I’m anxious to see what kind of integration they are planning to do. when I last commented on SplashBlog, they had changed their client software to only support their own web service (previously they had support for TypePad). The SplashBlog Palm client is really well done, giving users a clean application for posting photos and accompanying notes to their blog. I keep an eye on this app because it would make a…

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Amazon S3 Simple Storage Service

Amazon’s Simple Storage Service just launched: Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers. This looks pretty interesting —…

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