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maratheon Who writes about real start-ups? My story on trying to.

At least he didn't get caught out flogging any made-up 'scoops' during his internship: http://hasrohansilvaquityet.tumblr.com/

maratheon Adobe & HTML

Anyone else noticed that this move comes a week shy of the two-year anniversary of Steve Jobs's infamous open letter? (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/)

"New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind."

Write-up here: http://webdev360.com/adobe-lays-cards-on-table-with-standard...

maratheon AWS Marketplace

Quick write-up here: http://webdev360.com/amazon-cements-cloud-dominance-with-aws... I like how this isn't competing directly with MS's Azure Marketplace, which seems more focused on data, sector-specific SaaS, etc.

maratheon Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

Quick write-up here: http://webdev360.com/amazon-finally-moves-into-search-with-n...

Interesting to note that Pando Daily reported this as a rumour almost three months ago (though they got the announcement date drastically wrong: http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/17/good-news-for-ec2-customers...

maratheon Grep the Linux kernel source with live results as you type

Is this new, or has it been around for a while? Usability-wise, it's great.

maratheon Adobe to charge Flash coders to use 'premium' features

Wrote this up here, with some choice quotes from this thread: http://webdev360.com/adobe-tries-to-lock-in-flash-devs-with-...

Seems like a pretty ridiculous idea to me.