InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. “By

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. It was suddenly now not only about whom I was connected to, but who they knew and how I could get access to them. We all wanted intros.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

And then came the debate about storage. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Think about it. While Amazon continues to move “up the stack&# and offer some of these services on their own, RightScale continues to innovate by creating better tools for deployment, monitoring and other functions.

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