SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. Must be willing to work the way Google expects.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. The Past (1985-2002).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318