InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

“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. doing sports, and many other activities. Same everywhere.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. Amazon will surely keep moving up the stack.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). They’re capturing information about the demographics of map tiles, levels of LBS activity, what certain zones are known for (i.e. Social Networking (like the web) Will Split Into Layers: SimpleGeo, PlaceIQ. I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318