I'm not a big football (soccer) fan but of course I'm happy about Italy winning the World Cup. The picture above was shot yesterday night from our office window in Gorizia. It's a good sign, and this country definitely needs something to be proud of, bringing everybody together to face the future.

Dave went to the mountaintop and created a little piece of software that hopefully we will all enjoy soon.

It's a nice little folder on my desktop called Amazon S3. When I drag a file into the folder, it goes to the proper place in Amazon's cloud. When I create a sub-folder and put a file into it, it also goes to the right place. Open a picture in Graphic Converter or Photoshop, save it into the Amazon S3 folder, and it goes up to the cloud. Edit it, the changed version goes up.

This should sound familiar to all old Radio UserLand users, and it's one of the most powerful concepts of this early publishing tool: having some code running on the desktop interacting with a server. Quite simply there are things you can do on the desktop that you cannot do on a server, drag and drop publishing is one of these.

Tags: Dave Winer, Amazon S3