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Why Epic is burning its own cash to cook Apple

The Verge

Epic Games Store runs on Amazon Web Services. That’s in line with Minitel , the French pre-internet, which also had a 30 / 70 split for third-party content, says Bill Maurer, a professor of anthropology at the University of California Irvine who specializes in payment processors. “At So does Fortnite itself.

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Father-daughters team launches Chances to attract Gen Z to new type of ‘social relationships app’

GeekWire

A tech veteran with previous startup and CEO experience, as well as a stint at Amazon Web Services, Rob Lipschutz sounds like he’s having the time of his life as a Gen Xer helping Gen Z find a better way to connect online. Social media, with all of its promise, has had a net-negative effect on human beings.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Fathers of Clouds - A Tribute

Cloud Musings

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Thus Licklider’s 1962 declaration of a vision that would become the Internet bore the unmistakably audacious and space age sobriquet “Intergalactic Computer Network.” Comments.

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Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad. It’s only the beginning.

Vox

In the first nine months of 2022, Amazon’s ad revenue surpassed the money the company makes from Prime, Prime Video, and its other audio and e-book subscriptions combined. Along with Amazon Web Services, advertising has emerged as one of the company’s top two profit engines.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

Webby Break the Internet Award: Swizz Beatz + Timbaland for the Verzuz battles on Instagram Live. Webby Award for Music : Bastille - Doom Days Web AR by Powster. Webby Award and Webby People’s Voice Award for Net Art : 150 years of Nature by IBM Research AI - Northeastern University. Webby Breakout of the Year: Houseparty.

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