InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. While Amazon continues to move “up the stack&# and offer some of these services on their own, RightScale continues to innovate by creating better tools for deployment, monitoring and other functions. Cloud Data Platform. Okta solves this and more.

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