this appears to be a discussion about tim oreilly's world
the future is here it just isn't evenly distributed yet - william gibson
big hairy audacious goals
alpha geeks
image management of oreilly is quite interesting...we have a room full of infamously questioning folks...very anti-big business, very anti commercial yet this is a packed discussion about oreilly the business and products! marketing departure will be deeply happy :)
They really play the "we are part of this" not just observers of - very clever and frankly compelling.
Amazon web services presenter is up first - interestingly the only black participant I have seen at the conference.
amazon now consider themselves a platform -
the vision - be the platform that website owners and application developers use to serve and manage product information, manage shopping carts and handle orders through an easy to use pipelije and product display solution.
sounds a lot like a business plan I heard a few years ago from another e-commerce company I worked for. the interesting difference is that the pitch is to developers...ie. they are not providing -
Oh Oh - wait...a whole 5 minutes talking about the fab things that xslt does! a really big rap and a central component of their offering.
what is exposed in aws 2.1 -
xslt, sellersearch, seller profile search, marketplace search, exchangesearch, quick click, quick picks, content type switches, xml and soap, remote shopping cart
XSLT - wahooo
www.simplest-shop.com - this is a 19 yo guy in romania that is front ending and extending amazon's catalogue and is offering the ware to developers.
Posted by paula at April 23, 2003 09:30 PM