Wired Magazine interview with Jeff Bezos: Kindle Fire, taking the long view, and why Amazon is the opposite of Apple

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Steven Levy, a senior writer at Wired magazine, just shared a preview of an upcoming feature on Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos.

Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than you Think

I admire a lot about Amazon, and this article is well worth reading; do you agree with Google's Eric Schmidt, who says the four most important tech companies are Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon?

Much of what Amazon.com does falls right in line with the big ideas I've been evangelizing here on infrics.com: back-end standardization to enable agile deployment of services, and server-based, device independent delivery of applications and content are leadership areas for Amazon.  Levy presents the idea, which I think is spot-on, that if Apple is post-PC, Amazon is post-web, "in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someone’s data center."  

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Amazon's new Silk browser: stateless architecture comes to market using EC2

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With all the coverage of the new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, here is a fascinating bit of tech innovation: "split browser architecture."

It is a fairly pure expression of the stateless concept I've been discussing at length. Move the heavy lifting to the cloud, and use the device where you consume apps or content primarily as the user interface. One especially elegant adaptation to the current state of connectivity is the dynamic "division of labor" between the cloud and the mobile device.

Take a look at this explanation from Amazon.

Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi:

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