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SmartSound Extends Online Soundtrack Service

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Northridge-based SmartSound Software , which develops an online software as well as PC-based software for creating royalty free soundtracks, said earlier this week that it has extended its service to allow users to customize and create tracks indefinitely, once purchased from the company. READ MORE>>.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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“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. From day one we focused on customers.

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

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We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2. So, part of the funding is for expansion of the business, the rest is for continuing to innovate with our product. Dale Quayle: I think the biggest thing we're most excited about, is launching the company, and are excited about getting the product out and people using it.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. We are also pushing out updates all the time to our customers. We spent lots of time with enterprises where technology was not their core product. CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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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. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

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Our first-of-its-kind architecture yields a delivery cost model that is highly disruptive and that translates to great affordability for our customers. use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment. Today we run TenHands on a fungible QoS enabled network that we buy.

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

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If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. I’ve written extensively on the topic , but in a nutshell it is: an RSS reader, a chat room, instant messaging, a marketing channel, a customer service department and increasingly a data mine.