Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

"It gives real costs on on their servers, how many servers they have, what they are used for, and exactly how they use S2, EBS, CloudFront and other AWS services. This is great information for anybody trying to architect a system and wondering where to run it."

"companies are racing to achieve namespace dominance over your online profile.
Tim O’Reilly warned [us] in his definition of Web 2.0: one of the new kinds of lock-in in the era of [cloud computing] will be owning a namespace. There you have it — who are you going to trust to own yours?"
More than ever the message is: buy your own domain name, and aggregate your public activities over there

service that lets you translate documents by editing the translations automatically generated by Google. Has collaborative features.
Combines the raw statistical power of Google with the work of thousands of human translators that will be feeding their work into a huge Google "translation dictionary" that will improve with every translation performed with the system…

Dries Buytaert's post on Google's structured data announcement:
"Every webmaster wanting to improve click-through rates, reduce bounce rates, and improve conversation rates, can no longer ignore RDFa or Microformats. Structured data is the new SEO."