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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. From 2000 to 2011, the percentage of US adults using the internet had grown from about 60% to nearly 80%.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

When dealing with application delays, it is possible that people can develop coping strategies that allow them to maintain productivity in the short term. In 2011, CA Technologies commissioned Foviance, a customer experience consultancy, to conduct a series of lab experiments at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

Testsigma

The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices.

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What I Read in 2011

Tim Kadlec

Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke. HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith. Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte ( See my review ). Adaptive Web Design by Aaron Gustafson. CSS3 for Web Designers by Dan Cederholm. The Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane. Designing for Emotion by Aaron Walter.

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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. AWS also applies the same customer oriented pricing strategy: as the AWS platform grows, our scale enables us to operate more efficiently, and we choose to pass the benefits back to customers in the form of cost savings. All Things Distributed. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2011 06:40 AM. The US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy lays out a â??Cloud strategy which compels US federal agencies to consider Cloud Computing first as the target for their IT operations: To harness the benefits of cloud computing, we have instituted a Cloud First policy. All Things Distributed.

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments (). Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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