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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. MYTH 4: Research institutions are stronger in NorCal. Arguably the greatest research and development nexus in the United States rests in the area spanning San Diego to Los Angeles. blog comments powered by Disqus. Editor’s picks. Enterprise.

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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. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later. Pure excitement isn’t either.