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. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. Completely agree.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

“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. From day one we focused on customers.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

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. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318