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With this book, you'll learn how companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to 'rent' computing power, data storage and bandwidth on Amazon's vast network infrastructure. Programming Amazon Web Services gives developers the background and technical detail they need for using Amazon's subscription-based Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Flexible Payments Service (FPS), and SimpleDB to build web-scale business applications

As more companies invest in digital technology, there is growing hype surrounding new ways of doing business on the 'real-time' web.

Although many authors believe that their work has a greater research impact if it is freely available, studies to demonstrate that impact are few. This study looks at articles in four disciplines at varying stages of adoption of open access-philosophy, political science, electrical and electronic engineering and mathematics-to see whether they have a greater im- pact as measured by citations in the ISI Web of Science database when their authors make them freely available on the Internet. The finding is that, across all four disciplines, freely available articles do have a greater research impact. Shedding light on this category of open access reveals that scholars in diverse disciplines are adopting open-access practices and being rewarded for it.

A new feature on the Google toolbar-which is installed on millions of computers around the world-lets users comment about the content of any web page they visit; the comments are then visible to other toolbar owners when they visit that site (see screenshot to the left).

Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.

Info.com is a search engine that searchs simultaneously in Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and About. It can help us to save some time in web search

Web ads' reseesion is boucing back after last month.

most US resident do not want to receive targeted web ads due to concern of their prvaicy.

A new digital media company in the Web and mobile sector is going green, both in its operations and in the products and services it offers.

An interesting discussion of the categorization on the Web versus the existing hierarchical categorization which are constructed by experts.

An interesting discussion of the categorization on the Web compared to the existing hierarchical categorization which are constructed by experts.

The launch of Apps.gov, the U.S. Government's attempt to Go Google by offering cloud-based web apps to its various agencies.

Using cloud architecture and crowdsourced data on web pages, this real-time discovery and recommendation engine ranks pages based on whether users actually visited them and returns results from all over the web, not just a handful of indexed pages.

London's renowned Royal Opera House said Tuesday it hopes to perform excerpts of an opera now being composed on the Web by the growing community of Twitter users

Web giant shows in 15-minute video how it ranks news stories. By Mercedes Bunz

Vowing to fight unauthorized reproduction of news reports online, The Associated Press said Thursday that it will add software to each article showing who created it and what limits apply to the rights to use it. The software will also notify the A.P. about how the article is used across the Web.

As Germany heads into national elections, established political parties are trying to appeal to Web-savvy voters using Facebook and Twitter. But their Internet policies are alienating bloggers and activists, who are using the medium to protest against the political mainstream.

After a long hiatus, online bookseller Amazon is back trying to encourage us to read in a new way. Its Web site now features this description of its Kindle reading device: "Availability: In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available." This good news for consumers comes after the first batch of the devices sold out in just six hours late last year.

Online: The Future of Newspapers? Germany's dailies in the World Wide Web

Kirk McElhearn is a freelance writer, specializing in Macs, the iPod, iTunes, digital music and more. In addition to having written or co-written a dozen books, he is a Senior Contributor to Macworld magazine, and contributes to several other web sites and magazines. He reviews classical CDs for MusicWeb and audiobooks for Audiofile, and is a translator from French to English.