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Nirvanix Scrambles To Transfer Cloud Data Before Shutdown

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San Diego-based cloud storage company Nirvanix has officially shut down its service, saying in a posting on its website that it is actively winding down its business, and is scrambling to transfer data on the cloud storage service to other providers.

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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

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Gil is one of the founders of Applied Semantics, the firm acquired by Google for its AdSense technology. What's your new startup all about, and why did you start the company? How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? Is this similar?

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

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Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. So, if you''re a cloud storage provider, how do you get to the next level in terms of your service and company? We''re not using third party services such as Amazon S3, which just adds to your cost.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 That’s awesome for users of Salesforce.com or companies that want to cater to them but less awesome for pure startups that want independence and are really just looking for cloud infrastructure. That makes both of these amazing companies great channels for startups.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

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The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. Google App Engine - take more than two seconds to process we are going to kill your request. All about end-user requests.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Current round: $3mm in Series B by betaworks (lead)(largest investor in company), Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg, Howard Lindzon. Company still in beta.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 We all wanted intros.