At least for this website it isn't your data but it is their data.
They are backing up their curated photos (which seems to pretty much be the whole business as they say in the article).
It appears they are using Akamai services to server their images so hopefully their is some extra redundancy there already.
Other than that it seems like it would be a steal to use s3 as a backup system at this point because from this article it looks like they need to hire another employee to tell them why this backup solution seems a bit silly (I mean having trouble setting up the hardware).
For amazon cloudfront at the most expensive tier it buys close to 42 GB but then there would be no profit in sending the file 34 times (someone said it was a 1.2 GB file).
It makes sense to me why he is only allowing a few downloads otherwise a few extreme users could take up all his money just by streaming.
It is immature it is dumb but I can tell you this there are plenty of college kids that would live for games like this.
Drinking is immensely popular in many colleges and drinking games are one of the most common forms of college drinking (see beer pong and others).
The real problem is that their really isn't a shop that wants to carry a game like this I would think if there were a novelty shop it might be the best bet (maybe spencer's gifts style) it is just there are so few of these kind of shops that the market reach for this kind of game is limited.
WRONG STATEMENT: I believe that the person running pinboard mentioned that it started at something like $3 or maybe more, so it isn't 9550 but probably a bit less, even less if you count inactive users.
Not to say it is uncommon to call Stephen Wolfram egotistic, I swear there was a thread about Wolfram remembering Turing and people counting how many times Wolfram mentioned himself but it may have been killed as I can't find it.
This boggles me as well, wordpress has a huge install base and them making a sanctioned plugin for these ads would give a much wider audience to advertisers. The only reason I can possibly see wordpress.com sites as the reason for the rollout is that they are doing a limited release in order to not get overwhelmed.
Which just goes to show he can do marketing on more than just android. I guess I'll support it because I really like these income reports but I can't comment on whether the ebook is any good.
Check for mistypings because there is a large amount of people in there, I don't know if you mean it is full of idle people but it is a pretty active channel last time I was in there.
NearlyFreeSpeech only offers .net .org and .com I believe and you have to pay for extras that some other places give for free (such as dns) if you use those but they have a very nice TOS and general behavior.