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Amazon seems to be making significant grounds in the online world today. Here are reports from various websites:

Newpostonline:

Amazon Mechanical Turk is yet another way of aggregating service providers and buyers in one place ‘online’ where you can make money depending on your area of expertise.
Business week mentions “people can offer payment for businesses and services that require a human element rather than computing power”.

Amazon Mechanical Turk calls these assignments Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs). A lot (actually 86584) HITs are available as of now for people to work upon. So, what you have to do is fairly simple. Find a task that’s interesting for you. Some real examples are writing reviews, creating metadata information about a product etc. Just complete those tasks and earn money.
Some of the assignments are very interesting like the one about ” Data Collection about famous people.” Tasks like these require only your time and basic english and internet skills but can pay 20 cents per HIT. The review assignments can pay upto $5 per HIT.

BusinessWeek

Amazon’s cloud computing division has lifted the lid on some of the enhancements it has on the way.

Amazon Web Services has been offering on-demand computing and storage capacity for three years through its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) and now the company wants to make it easier for businesses to use them. The online retail arm of the company might be better known to the general public, but the web services business already consumes more bandwidth than the more famous ecommerce side.

Andy Jassy, senior VP for Amazon Web Services and Amazon Payments, told silicon.com: “Really what we’re trying to do with Amazon Web Services is provide a set of building-block infrastructure services that other businesses can use to build sophisticated scalable applications.”

Amazon (AMZN) recently opened a datacentre in Ireland for businesses wanting to use the services but keep their data in Europe for compliance and latency purposes.

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Either there are more deranged students nowadays or the security in US campuses are getting lax. More and more people are being harmed by school shootings in the past five years or so. I wonder what should be done to stop this.

Here’s a news from 9news.com

University officials say Johanna Justin-Jinich, a Wesleyan student from Fort Collins, died Wednesday afternoon after being shot several times.

Justin-Jinich was pronounced dead at Middletown Hospital. Authorities did not immediately confirm her identity.

The Middletown Press quoted unidentified sources as saying the gunman is the victim’s ex-boyfriend. Middletown Police Lt. Margaret Liseo would not comment on the report. Police say a wig was recovered at the scene.

Wesleyan officials have told students and staff that there’s no reason to believe the gunman is on campus and that they can resume normal activities.

Bill Howes says he was so relieved when the phone rang at his home in Thornton. It was his Brother, Jim, saying he was OK. Jim was inside the Broad Street Bookstore near Wesleyan University Campus in Connecticut when the woman was fatally shot.

Jim Howes said: “I was standing near a bookshelf when I heard what sounded like the pop of firecrackers so it was really odd. Moments later I heard screaming. A girl came rushing out saying, ‘There is someone in the store with a gun.’”

Middleton Police say there were five shell casings found near the woman. Howes says he saw her.

Here’s another one from the AP

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut police are looking for a disguised gunman who fatally shot a Wesleyan University student while she worked at a popular bookstore near campus.
They say Timnath, Colo., native Johanna Justin-Jinich was shot several times Wednesday afternoon at a bookstore in downtown Middletown, in central Connecticut.
Police have released a photo of the suspect but won’t confirm newspaper and TV reports he’s the student’s ex-boyfriend.

Middletown police Lt. Margaret Liseo is urging residents and Wesleyan students to be vigilant and says the suspect should be considered armed and dangerous. Justin-Jinich was on track to graduate next year.

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