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I'm developing a web app with only a couple people with small amounts of spare time and it would be great to "outsource" DB management to SimpleDB. I have heard SimpleDB can be slower than MySQL but it seems pretty fast so far w/o a large table. Does anyone have experience with it?

I've heard that EC2 isn't really suitable for serving website pages because it has a lot of latency. I haven't tested this myself but I did notice that x forwarding from amazon machine images is pretty slow--I suppose these are the same thing. Any thoughts?

I was writing a business plan yesterday and trying to think of a good model besides Google but couldn't think of a great one....

Does anyone know of a good quality clipart site with a license that will allow me to use the clipart on a website?

I'm a grad student at Stanford looking for a cofounder but haven't had any luck yet. All my friends are extremely busy working in lab. Should we organize some kind of a meetup?

I am a grad student at Stanford looking for help building a startup. I have a working prototype and enthusiastic responses and a small amount of money. I just need a cofounder to get things going faster and to have someone to work with! I have been using lots of Python. Email me at jameschce@gmail.com.

I'm new to natural language processing and was wondering if anyone knows of a good place to start.