Better Amazon S3 Storage – Jungle Disk is one of several services out there offering off-site storage of your data via Amazon S3. Their recent versions have progressed to offering automated backups as well as access to your S3 account as just another mounted disk. Now they’ve rolled out Jungle Disk Plus, an option companion service that enhances S3 by putting a smart server of their own in the loop.
If you opt for Jungle Disk Plus, your local client will talk to the Plus servers to enable extra features. These include resumed uploads for large files and block-level file updates (neither of which is directly supported by S3) as well as a web client for accessing your S3 files from anywhere. The cost for the service is $1 per month plus bandwidth charges, but if you sign up today they’ll waive the monthly fee for a year.
Hoosgot what you want? – If you go back far enough you may remember the LazyWeb, a semi-automated system for passing requests for information among a network of blogs. Hoosgot is a new service with the same general idea, parsing blog posts and Twitter tweets for the word “hoosgot” and passing the questions along for the hive mind to answer. Right now it’s full of PR and trackbacks (from stories like this one), but in the future this could be a useful resource.
Virtual Times Square – Even if you can’t be there in person, you can send a message thanks to the New Year’s Wishing Wall online. Thanks to the Times Square Alliance, messages entered through the web interface are being printed on the confetti that will be dumped on the crowd. I wonder whether there are any Web 2.0 hopefuls madly entering the URL of their startup over and over again?
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