SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? cheap accessible digital hardware].

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318