Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

.&# They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. That little online book company. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

It encouraged groups of people to email everybody in their email address books and “connect&# on Plaxo so that when any of their contact information was changed online it could by synchronized with everybody’s local computer version and thus we could all stay in touch. Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Social Networking (like the web) Will Split Into Layers: SimpleGeo, PlaceIQ. One of the most interesting trends in the last few years has been watching the Internet split into layers. I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. Especially to a company that sells books! And then came the debate about storage.

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