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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

“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. When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur?

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. blog comments powered by Disqus. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition. Venture capital. Developers. Infographics. Management. Electric cars. Hybrid cars. Renewable energy. Streaming media. Advertise on VentureBeat. most popular. most shared. October 20, 2012 1:57 PM.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).