Online sharing system

Amazon.com Web Service"s hosted storage service went down Friday morning, frustrating many Web site customers and refreshing concerns with the ballyhooed approach of cloud computing. An online forum spiked with customer complaints Friday morning as some people found that content stored on Amazon"s Simple Storage Service (S3) was unavailable or performed slowly. The service was restored a few hours later, according to an Amazon technician. The first forum posting was timed at 5 a.m. PT, and the service was back up at just past 9 a.m.Glitch hits Amazon Simple Storage Service. ***

While GrandCentral may have been stealing headlines lately, there"s another suffix-sharing phone call management service called RingCentral that can make small businesses look and function like larger ones with some pretty neat telephonic tomfoolery. The service has been around since early 2004, and today is introducing a slew of VoIP plans called DigitalLine that give users the option to use VoIP instead of, or on top of their existing landlines. So what can you do with RingCentral? Small business owners will love it, since you can set up a ridiculously extensive set of rules to handle incoming calls, or reroute them on the fly with a virtual phone call manager called SoftPhone. ***

Tomorrow, ThinkFree will announce a new way to publish documents: ThinkFree Docs. The feature looks a lot like Scribd: It"s a publicly accessible, YouTube-like document directory. And like YouTube, documents stored on it can be embedded in blogs and Web sites. ThinkFree creates simple, dedicated pages for hosting office documents.(Credit: CNET Networks) Docs rounds out the publishing options for the online suite ThinkFree, which already had a method for sharing documents that"s much like ***