I missed a call from Steve last night. When I came in this morning, he told me that he called me to let me know that him and Aaron were hanging with Jeff Bezos. Jeffrey frickin Bezos! (He's the founder of Amazon.com) I can't believe it. I'm the biggest Amazon fanboy ever. I buy everything from Amazon (using my Amazon credit card!), and Amazon S3 (I've written about this countless times) is my favorite web product ever. If I had met Bezos in person, I'd probably emit a high pitched squeal (much like those Japanese girls) and chase after Jeff Bezos until he gave me some free $25 gift certificates. Alas ...

Another company I think is kick-ass is Yahoo! They're doing some really exciting API stuff. It's great to see a big company like Yahoo! really embracing standards and the development community like this. I know MS is trying to do the same thing, but whenever they reach out to the community, it just doesn't seem as ... benevolent.