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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. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later. from the Wharton School.

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

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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Acquisition. blog comments powered by Disqus. Amid criticism, Uber’s CEO fights back: ‘On bad days, I look at our revenue graph’ channels. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Venture capital. Developers. Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. Infographics. Management. most popular.