Archive for October 18th, 2006
A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools
S3 is a cool virtual disk service provided by Amazon. Unfortunately its only accessible via an API so mere mortals don’t get a lookin. Thankfully Jeremy Zawodny has compiled a list of list of backup tools that will give you access to the service.
S3 is priced at 0.15 USD per GB per month and 0.20 USD per GB of bandwidth consumed.
Paul Graham : Why Startup's Fail
Darren drew my attention to an essay by Paul Graham entitled “The 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups“. Its a pretty good list but of course it could just as easily be entitled “The 18 mistakes that kill companies”. The only difference is that when big companies (DEC, Data General, Compaq, Symbolics, Thinking Machines, ICL) make these mistakes, death is long and lingering rather than short and sharp.
