…wrote a very informative article on……

Your blog is awful and boring to read. Please stop posting random crap for link-juice, and please refund me the 5 minutes it took to skim your blog.

Thanks,

The Internet.

What?? This is a ridiculous decision by Amazon. Amazon has its own non-mobile portal, too — it’s called http://www.amazon.com — and I’m left to wonder if they’re not going to start banning access to that also. What’s the difference?

Anybody thinking about developing with ECS in any capacity should be very cautious, and should probably just move on and look for some other business to be in.

- We developed our solution based on Amazon’s consistent promotion of its web services and the ongoing commitment by Jeff Bezos. We would never have thought that our access to this data would be revoked. We launched TXTREVIEWS on June 25th, 2007.

- I received a call from the ‘Senior Business Development Manager – Wireless Amazon.com’ on August 17th informing me that Amazon will be launching its own mobile portal and that Senior Management has decided to ban all mobile related applications from using ECS.

- I received a follow up e-mail on that same day: “For the reasons explained in our conversation, we are no longer prepared to authorize the continued use of the Amazon Web Services ECS service (”ECS”) in connection with the Txtreviews.com…. We have recently changed our position in relation to the usage of ECS in respect to mobile applications and our current AWS Customer Agreement specifically prohibits use of ECS in connection with mobile applications, without our express written approval. Of course, the agreement has always reserved to us the right to discontinue any use of ECS at any time….we would like you to remove the Amazon elements of the service and all references to Amazon in the next 30 days.”

- Today, August 16th marked 30 days from the notice and late last night we made the necessary changes.

From a legal perspective, Amazon has the right to make this change. However, from a PR perspective, this is a disaster. Amazon has always encouraged companies to use their ‘world-class’ web services, but it may now be difficult to trust them if they can unexpectedly make policy changes and ban usage of their data.

Please feel free to e-mail me directly at hussein.fazal@txtreviews.com with any questions.

Many professionals want high speed hosting page views. You need super fast page load like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Digg, etc.

Load page runs damn slow. I think you putting too many plug-in widgets. I think techcrunch need to test fourty nine state computers. California is fine.

When you in plane and access techcrunch…. You better check out horrible speed. Even Yahoo have tons of text bytes, graphics, links, and even runs faster than techcrunch page page.

Excellent point.

We provide developers with the ability to hook into web services with text messaging. Companies like txtReviews use our services to easily provide content via sms.

I have told my customers on many occasions, that if they are screen scraping, or accessing a web service without a specific agreement with the content provider, they are taking a huge risk. You must have an alternate plan.

Many of the web services do not allow commercial use. While it’s a fine line between commercial and non-commercial, ultimately the content provider has the power.

I had this exact issue with our iPhone RSS reader (http://iPheedr.com) that works with Bloglines. They simply shut down our API access, and rendered it useless. Since the reader also supports OPML and Newsgator, we had covered our bases. We were ultimately able to get it turned back on, but it can be devastating.

Greg Harris

http://www.mobivity.com

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch reports “This is coming in late on a Saturday, so we only have one side of the story so far. But Canadian startup TXTReviews, which allows people to get book and movie user ratings via text message, says they’re being…

We’ve been using S3 for a largely mobile app for ages, no one has said boo to us. Of course our system is designed such that amazon vever touches the carriers directly.

“5.1.4. Unless we have provided you our express written consent in advance, you are not permitted to use Amazon ECS in connection with any handheld, mobile or mobile phone application.”

http://www.amaz...L942TSJ2AJA#5_1

Although it was last updated August 20th.