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Entries for Thursday, May 18, 2006

May 18, 2006

Illuminating the shadows: Opportunistic network and web measurement

Stanford research project (from the folks behind the Coral caching system) tracing the outer leaves of the internet.

Refund Me Do

I’ve linked to it before, but I want to give another shout out to Refund Please, a site that tracks your Amazon purchases and tells you if any have dropped in price. Amazon has a no-quibble refund-the-difference policy if they drop the price within 30 days—You just have to contact them and ask.

Last week, I got $6 back from four CDs that had become discounted since I’d bought them, and yesterday, it alerted me that the Shop-Vac I picked up on Tuesday for $99.95 had plummeted a whopping $24 in one day!

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Cross-platform mountable network file-system storing your precious data with Amazon’s S3 service.

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