There's an API to make the twitter link fetching possible. Was curious how people might use it, think there are lots of posibilities. API is very very simple, just 1 RESTful controller. Hope there will be someone who can come up with a cool application that makes use of it.
prldr.com let's you create lists of links and preloads those lists for you.
It's got a very basic API, so you can use it to create and update your own lists.
I can think of multiple use cases for it. For example: load your twitter feed, scrape the links and display them, load all your rss feeds and display them, open up all links off a frontpage, to preload them.
What do you think? What kind of things must I add to make it useful for you? You might just not like it, because of the iframe technique used, just ignore it then, it really is a very hackerish tool and not meant to be more than that.
We're extracting our marketing tools out of earlier build webapps, this will be backendfu, so webapps can be build even faster. This is it for now, later more information.
Looks like it's more expensive than S3 at this moment. USD 0.17/GB/Month vs S3: 0.15/GB/Month for storage. Curious to see if this is going to change. An extra competitor in this space will do no harm. Amazon has done a great job, but overall pricing can use some competition I think.
Soo cool you made these stats public. It's not only that you can't loose anything by sharing this data, but you also inspire people by giving out data like this. Really really cool. One question... can you expand on how you marketed this website, sounds like you really did some marketing on this website, I already saw this affiliate program you're running, are their other ways you target your customers, like adwords? Organic traffic? And what's your ratio of development/marketing? Thanks very much for sharing.