Rightscale is the new name for AWS-Console (a much better name, i must say). It seems to be the easiest way to play around on Amazon’s EC2. I had a server up in minutes, with most of the delays being due to poor wifi. A neat little business model, smoothing out the [...]

Just heard Jane McGonigal’s talk about happiness. I really, really like her prediction for the future (quick notes, not verbatim):

quality of life is the primary metric
positive psychology is a principal influence on design
the public expects tech companies to have a clear vision for a life worth living
to succeed, products/brands/etc. must increase [...]

Just noticed my wordpress installation is borked, people’s comments aren’t visible. Will try and fix tomorrow.

I’m at ETech 2007 in San Diego.
Notables:
Twitter-mania is everywhere. PaulK on what twitter has on blogging: “If you’re going to be inane, at least be inane concisely”. And someone on IRC: “Twitter: teaching America about SMS”.
Fun is in. This is a good thing, except that creating fun [...]