Amazon has announced a new pricing and purchasing option for their EC2 product which is part of the AWS (Amazon Web Services) product lineup. The pricing is somewhat confusing but it's basically a pre-paid model which lowers the hourly usage fees. Check out the pricing charts to see how the reserved...

The Google Checkout team has announced some major changes to the fee structure for merchants using the Google Checkout payment processing system. The new pricing appears to match the pricing by competitor PayPal. Andy Beal has a good overview of the changes which he calls, "worse, worser and ev...

Truemors is a place to share rumors that you hear. We reviewed the service when it launched nearly two years. Trumeors was started by very popular web personality Guy Kawasaki and was sold to NowPublic for an undisclosed sum. When the service launched, Guy was quick to note that he spent "only&...

The big SXSW interactive festival starts on Friday and this will be my third year in attendance. I look forward to meeting as many CN readers as I can and I have fresh CN stickers for all. I will post the location of where I am so you can pick up the stickers on the left side of the CN site througho...

We've reviewed a number of collaboration tools including Canadian-based ConceptShare and Scotland-based Colaab. Today I took a look at Argentinian-based CreationFlow. CreationFlow is a Flash-based collaboration and project management suite.  You setup tasks inside of projects and then assign users ...

Late last week I was contacted by Drop.io co-founder Sam Lessin to check out their newest launch. Today their updated file sharing platform went live -- you can read about the updates on ArsTechnica and on the Drop.io blog. The basic idea is that files you upload are available to people you've sha...

Last month we reviewed LastPost which allows you to write letters today to loved ones that will be delivered upon your passing. Today we have found another site that wants to help you manage your online identity in the event of death. The site is called Legacy Locker and I like the concept. In addit...

DivX has announceda new partnership with Google that will bring Google's consumer products to the DivX installation. The first product to be included is Google's Chrome Web browser. Financial terms of the partnership were not released. The new deal is expected to launch in the first or second quarte...

Back in November we reviewed NY-based SuiteMatch which helps people in several cities in the U.S. find desks to rent. Today I learned about another similar service for folks in the UK called Desk Space Genie. Desk Space Genie is a marketplace for companies with extra desk space and people looking to...

What's going on in the news/daily show videoblogging space? Check out this list of activity over the last couple of months: CBS' Wallstrip closes Mobuzz closes CBS' Moblogic closes Leah D'Emilio leaves Mahalo Daily; apparently show reduced to 1x/week Youtube recap WebbAlert closes Scoble leaves Fast...