Amazon.com Unbox Video: Well, here it is: bona-fide (read: actual Hollywood movies) video rental over your PC. Is this the first real entry here? Did Amazon actually beat Netflix to the plate?
For all the press Google gets these days, Amazon is tearing the house down in my view. I would consider them the gold standard of Internet companies these days.
Apple's iTunes Music Store is down right now; all links redirect to this page. Guess that means Rob's comment is on the mark, and the heat will be turned up a bit for Amazon's Unbox. I'm thinking it'll be better than perfectly adequate.
I tried out Amazon's Unbox service tonight. It was perfectly adequate -- I got exactly what I paid for with no drama at all. I purchased the first episode of Firefly for $1.99. I probably could have started watching it after five minutes or so, but I let it…
Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon EC2 / Amazon Web Services: My understanding of how this works is that you can upload a disk image of a machine, and it will live at Amazon on some virtual, uber-server, and run there. Cost is $0.10 per hour (or $2.40 a…
Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon S3: Huh. Neat. 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…
Apple's will be out on Tuesday (if all the rumors are true and their teaser "It's Showtime" is correct). I'd also look for a new piece of hardware that makes it extremely easy to get the video content from iTunes to your TV. Amazon can't really bring that to the table.