Just posted three new categories of consulting practices over on the consulting web site:
- Facebook (application strategy, corporate presence and application development)
- Amazon Web Services (focusing on their S3 storage and EC2 hosting products)
The Facebook and Amazon practices actually aren’t new, but we’ve packaged them up in the form of consulting practices and put them on the web site for the first time.
We’re launching these practices at the same time because they’re somewhat related. The Facebook/Amazon EC2 in particular is powerful mojo; we’re just about to release a Facebook application for a client that uses Facebook and EC2 together.
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I just came across an interesting idea recently while reading the comments on Jalopnik, one of the Gawker sites. They’re apparently working on a Facebook app for their comments system – that way, when you comment on one of their sites and stories, your friends on Facebook can know about it.
I thought that was a pretty clever idea, especially as walled-garden social bookmarking as practiced by the NY Times doesn’t really serve much of a purpose.
But EC2+S3 for Facebook apps definitely kills multiple birds with one stone, and finally comes up with a cohesive argument for why someone would need all that Amazonian scalability.