Welcome to the Jungle (Redux)

Werner Vogels -the Amazon CTO- has just announced in his blog the availability of the S3 storage for Amazon European servers. This is good news because it means that Amazon thinks globally. The customer experience can improve if the latency is very low because of the fastest load of pages and static content.

When you start with a third party open source library or project, first thing you do is to check the its activity. If the project is dead or it's a zombie (somebody still there just to make questions in the forums) then it's better to start looking for a new one.
If the project is active and you decide to use it, sometimes (well, most of the times) you cannot dedicate time to give your feedback to the project. You need new functions in that beautiful library, but you don't have time to implement it and you have already seen in the bug list that somebody have already asked for the same kind of enhanced functionality.
The question is: When will The Gods of the library/project will implement those enhancements? And why is it not implemented yet? Nobody knows...
I came across with www.corank.com several months ago. It's a tool to build your own web 2.0 Digg style voting system. And I think it would be a good idea to use it as a voting system to classify the criticity of bugs and enhancements in a complex multi-customer system like popular open source projects.
Do you know of anybody using it this way? Or any other tool?

Today I have discover Preezo, another web 2.0 presentations tool that looks like a killer for Microsof Powerpoint.
The interface is mixture between Writely (sorry, Google Docs) and Microsoft Powerpoint. It's surprisingly fast (faster than Google Docs) and you can build simple presentations very fast. If you are familiar with MS powerpoint then you can build a presentation easily.
The application allows to send by email the presentation, publish on the web and broadcast to the net and it's also possible to embed it inside a HTML page just like any other web 2.0 widget.
The site looks professional, and I have not found any bug. This is a surprise because the company is owned by a single person. Seems it's still possible a stand alone developer to develop professional software.