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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. 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.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. Enter Facebook.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics. During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343