Comments on: Amazon World Domination Can Now Begin http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/12/14/amazon-world-domination-can-now-begin/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:50:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Rick Bullotta http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/12/14/amazon-world-domination-can-now-begin/comment-page-1/#comment-202348 Rick Bullotta Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:00:31 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/12/14/amazon-world-domination-can-now-begin/#comment-202348 To some extent, Force.com (the platform element of Salesforce.com) has offered similar functionality for quite some time. One key piece that is needed (if not present already) is an "account cap" as a protection against overbilling - kinda like the way you can cap your kids mobile phone/text usage. That way, if you leave open a URL that a bot could exploit (or even a search engine might inadvertently probe), you aren't racking up charges. To some extent, Force.com (the platform element of Salesforce.com) has offered similar functionality for quite some time.

One key piece that is needed (if not present already) is an “account cap” as a protection against overbilling – kinda like the way you can cap your kids mobile phone/text usage.

That way, if you leave open a URL that a bot could exploit (or even a search engine might inadvertently probe), you aren’t racking up charges.

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