423 job openings in AWS, how many employees does AWS have? 2,000

Seattletimes has an article about Amazon's job growth in the Seattle area.

Amazon.com on a hiring spree

Amazon.com has been expanding its office complex in South Lake Union and has about 1,900 openings in Seattle.

By Amy Martinez

Seattle Times business reporter

GREG GILBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES

Amazon began moving into its new headquarters complex in South Lake Union last spring and now occupies seven buildings covering 845,000 square feet.

It's tough times all around, just not at Amazon's new headquarters in the South Lake Union area of Seattle.

Young workers dressed in jeans and T-shirts type away on laptops in small conference rooms named after products sold on Amazon's website. Vending machines serve up pricey gluten-free cookies and dry-roasted edamame. And for their pooches, doggy biscuits are handed out at the main reception desk.

Amid a sluggish job market and shaky economic recovery, the world's biggest Internet retailer is hiring like crazy at its headquarters complex. Consider Amazon's online jobs board: It lists about 1,900 openings in Seattle, at least twice as many as a year ago. More than 900 call for techies.

If Amazon is adding 900 technical jobs.  How many are in AWS?  I blogged about 166 job positions open in May 2010.

I was in Home Depot yesterday and saw one of my ex-Microsoft friends who joined Amazon Web Services 4 years ago when people weren't familiar with the term Cloud Computing.  We had a quick catch-up in between Grill Aisle and Lawn Mowers.  I told him how I blogged about AWS having 100 job openings. Curious I checked today and there were 147 US jobs and 19 Int'l jobs for AWS.

So, going up to Amazon career and searching for "AWS" there are 43 pages of 10 jobs a page.  The 43rd page has 3 entries.  42 X 10 + 3 = 423.

Current job postings for Amazon of 1,900 for 33,700 employees equals a 5.6% hiring rate.

Worldwide, Amazon had 33,700 employees at the end of 2010, about 9,400 more than at the end of the previous year.

For a fast growing business if you assume a 20% hiring percentage, multiply 423 X 5 is about 2,000 employees.  Take your own guess on the size of AWS higher or lower, AWS is on fire and hiring.

Don't forget versus all the rest of the cloud companies, Amazon has more customers and more data than anyone else. A huge investment in customer analytics systems.  Analyzing behavior gives Amazon an advantage where their size makes it difficult for competitors.

Why do we need Fire Bowls in Water pools? Hope this trend dies

Saw this article in Barron's on great a natural/propane flame in a pool of water looks in a landscape.

You can display a fire bowl on dry land if you want, but the real drama comes when you pair it with a reflecting pool. Run a gas line underneath and the works of art will blaze on demand.

The artist even admits fire and water don't go together.

Make Your Landscape Really Hot

Fire and water usually don't mix well. "The two elements are not born together, nor do they really want to be together," says Brooklyn sculptor Elena Colombo. But with fire bowls, an increasingly popular type of landscape installation from Colombo and others, fire and water meet, mingle and mesmerize.

Could you imagine having one of these fire fountains installed now a day?

At least no green data center would install one of these.

Who is BestGreenWebHostingDeal (content farm) that is using GreenM3 content?

Curious who the content farm is that steals GreenM3 content I decided to look up who owns the BestGreenWebHostingDeal. 

Checking with Network Solutions I wanted to see who owns the BestGreenHosting url. http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/bestgreenwebhostingdeal.com

Registrant:
   Tannia Schrieber
   166 Springfield Ave
   Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 19004
   United States

   Registered through: All You Can Eat Domains.com
   Domain Name: BESTGREENWEBHOSTINGDEAL.COM
      Created on: 28-Jun-10
      Expires on: 28-Jun-11
      Last Updated on: 28-Jun-10

   Administrative Contact:
      Schrieber, Tannia  tannia.schrieber@gmail.com
      166 Springfield Ave
      Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 19004
      United States
      (267) 249-6306      Fax -- 

   Technical Contact:
      Schrieber, Tannia  tannia.schrieber@gmail.com
      166 Springfield Ave
      Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 19004
      United States
      (267) 249-6306      Fax -- 

   Domain servers in listed order:
      NS1.LUNARIFFIC.COM
      NS2.LUNARIFFIC.COM

Next step is a cease and desist letter.  

I wonder if Tannia will repost this content on her own site? 

Example of Content Farm, stealing content from GreenM3

Google has updated search to find Content Farm, but nothing is perfect. 

The Farming of Content

What constitutes a content farm is open to debate.

A general consensus is that the label applies to websites that lift content almost entirely from other sites. However, that's also true of sites that churn out patterns of words that satisfy Google's algorithms, using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques.

Here is an example of a post I wrote yesterday that is copied by another site. 

Get your Greenpeace #unfriendcoal organic t-shirt

FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011 AT 12:23PM

Greenpeace has a site specific for unfriendcoal http://www.facebook.com/unfriendcoal.

When you Google Search for “greenpeace unfriendcoal t-shirt” a content farm comes up #7

Whereas my original content comes up lower.

Get your Greenpeace #unfriendcoal organic t-shirt

Greenpeace has a site specific for unfriend coal http://www.facebook.com/unfriendcoal.

I talked to Greenpeace’s Gary Cook at the suggestion of one of the Internet companies who has an environmental executive who said you should talk to Gary he is a good guy.  Gary was at the Green Grid Tech Forum and we had a good time chatting on green data centers.  I told him the story on how Matt Stansberry broke the Facebook use of PacificCorp’s coal energy source.

By Matt Stansberry, Executive Editor
29 Jan 2010 | SearchDataCenter.com

On Jan. 21, when Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations atFacebook announced the company would build its first data center, it wasn't a surprise that the Web giant located its facility in Oregon. What is surprising is that it will not avail itself of the region's famous hydroelectric power.

Gary Cook gave me T-shirt which was cool and nice of him.  I asked if I could write a blog entry.  I ran into another environmental friend who has one of the shirts too.  I asked my daughter to model the t-shirt as it looks much better on her than me.

If you want a t-shirt like these girls and mine.

Just send e-mail.

Get an Unfriend Coal campaign t-shirt:

Women's organic t-shirt or Men's organic t-shirt. Free for Facebook staff - just email us from your @fb.com address.

If you are a Facebook employee.

But, watch out Greenpeace will want a picture of you wearing the t-shirt on your Facebook page.