This is one of those things that makes me proud to be back working at Amazon. Using S3 and Mechanical Turk, Amazon has worked with friends of the missing Jim Gray to try and distribute the task of finding Jim Gray and his missing boat to people sitting behind their computers.

Take a few minutes to help in the search! Let's find him!

I think I'd rather just carry my iPod but I liked this article just because it shows me some of the apps interfacing with S3 now. Who knows though, maybe some of you want your music catalog online so that you can listen from any PC.

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Second Life has started using Amazon S3.

Quoted: Sometimes the most trivial part of your Second Life experience, when magnified ten thousand times, becomes not such a trivial thing after all. Case in point: The client y

Network storage that backs up to Amazon's S3 storage via this hardware device. 690GB for $299/month. Yikes!

Amazon's new S3 storage is apparently already yielding fruit. Sounds like it is already really helping data-intensive sites save money on their storage.

Quoted: Just over three months ago Amazon made a major move beyond online retail with the launch of its S3 grid storage service. The company today released some information about the program’s early progress. Online storage as a utility might seem unexciting to some, but it could be a real boon to innovation. S3 just passed 800 million discrete objects stored and has some interesting customers using the service. At $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used and $0.20 per GB of data transferred, the effort is poised to change the game for web services previously weighed down by the requirements of storing their own data.