At the end of March Wikipedia had it's 10 millionth article written on the wiki. An biography written about Nicholas Hilliard was awarded the spot of 10 millionth article on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia has been keeping an online encyclopedia since January 2001. They now have articles in 250 different languages. People contribute to Wikipedia from all around the world. Anyone can contribute to Wikipedia if they have some information to add. Hopefully the information is correct. For the most part it is, but errors have been found occasionally.

Amazon Web Services has lowered their pricing for users using over 10 terabytes of data a month. The new pricing, set to take effect 1 May 2008 looks like this:

• $0.100 per GB - data transfer in (same as old price)
• $0.170 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out (a $0.01 per GB savings)
• $0.130 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out (a $0.03 per GB savings)
• $0.110 per GB - next 100 TB / month data transfer out (a $0.02 per GB savings)
• $0.100 per GB - data transfer out / month over 150 TB (a $0.03 per GB savings)

These prices should help lower the burn rates of Web 2.0 companies everywhere who use Amazon to help provide services.

Via Web Worker Daily

If you're going to travel to a major city then you're going to need a hotel. TvTrip helps you find one in a unique way. For each hotel they have listed on their site, some of the team from TvTrip have already gone there for you and made a video of their experience.

They go to each hotel, personally, and film the rooms, lobby, exercise rooms, bathrooms and sometimes even the view from the window, as is. They've filmed thousands of hotels in Europe for you and have recently started filming US hotels too. This is great if you're going to visit one of the cities they've been to because you get to see your hotel before you go to it, from a first hand perspective.

From TvTrip you can also book your hotel. When you go to book your hotel you can see prices from several different online companies such as Expedia, Booking.com, Hotel Club and Venere. This way you're bound to get a good price.

Chances are, if you use Twitter heavily like I do, you noticed all kinds of weird things over the past several days. Twitter did some maintenance Friday night, which isn't all that unusual. After that maintenance, most people's updates were not showing up properly on people's timelines. The way this manifested itself was that Twitter appeared quiet-almost too quiet.

Once they sorted out the issues, all the updates started flooding in. Problem was, they were out of order and, by the time they showed up, several days old. It looked like someone sneezed all over my timeline!

Finally, on Monday night before I went to bed, I noticed Twitter starting to look normal. It appeared to be so today.

Having been on Twitter before the SXSW invasion in 2006, and back when it was called Twttr, I have seen a number of these growing pains. It goes with the territory of this service.

I have been spammed several times over the past several weeks by a service called Naymz. Several people it seems have wanted me to "join their reputation network." Bah. Like I need another way to connect with all these people. I tend to ignore invites to these kinds of services on general principle.

A co-worker of mine sent out an email grousing about this service. His main complaint was that they send out invites to your contacts using your email address as the sender. It confuses people as they think it was you that really sent it versus a service of questionable value.

Look, I can see why these services employ these kinds of spam tactics, but there are nicer, more friendly ways of building the number of profiles into your service. Needless to say I won't be signing onto Naymz, nor will I recommend anyone else do it.

Erick Schonfeld over at Techcrunch reports a problem with Amazon Web Services. Early this morning, Pacific Time, developers began reporting issues with the services. Approximately an hour and a half later, the issue appears resolved.

While failures happen, and this one happened overnight, just remember there is no such thing as an overnight in a 24x7 round-the-clock, round-the-globe world. Outages of any sort-scheduled or otherwise-are increasingly not tolerated. Reliability (and price) are the keys to success going forward for Amazon and other companies providing web services.

Wikipedia defines Web 2.0 as:

a trend in World Wide Web technology, and web design, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, which aim to facilitate creativity, information sharing, collaboration, and sharing among users. It is almost defined as the new era of the World Wide Web.

Do you know your way around the Web 2.0 world? Are you up to date with the latest developments in this field? Do you already blog about it? Then we need YOU as the next writer for the Web 2.0 Weblog!

If you're interested in this blogging position, see more details of the job here. Hope to hear from you!