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JUNE 3, 2010
Orchard for e-Books”. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. LibreDigital. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. MetaMarkets.
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JUNE 28, 2011
They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. That little online book company. They came from a different perspective. They have the mass retailer mentality of “stack ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap.&# Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this.
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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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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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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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