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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. A couple of the more interesting ones: Amazon EC2 Google App Engine Salesforce.com Force IBM’s Blue Cloud All about end-user requests.

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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

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Neville Spiteri is co-founder of Venice-based WEMO Media (www.wemomedia.com), a new, digital studio whose flagship product is TheBlu (www.theblu.com) an online, interactive experience focused on the world's oceans. Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media. We spoke with Neville about the company: What is theBlu?

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. I’m just in awe of what they’ve enabled and baffled that the media doesn’t give this more focus. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Streaming media. Social media. It covers a range of technology trends, from social media to mobile, clean technology, games and chips. Electric cars. Hybrid cars. Renewable energy. Streaming video. Smartphones. Windows Phone. Google Plus. Social networking. Social games. Interviews. Privacy Policy.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SoCal CTO

The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility. A lot of the examples that Amazon used were media related. What's interesting about storing media is that it's not a CDN like Akamai.

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

Both Sides of the Table

At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Products like awe.sm (I’m an investor) will help you manage the efficacy of your social media marketing campaigns. AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media.