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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SoCal CTO

The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates. You need to push out anything truly persistent to another machine and/or storage, e.g., S3.

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DreamHost Debuts Public Cloud Storage Service Into GA

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DreamHost , the Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud services provider, said Tuesday that it has debuted its DreamObjects public cloud storage service into general availability, aiming the service at application storage, Web site backup, content storage, disaster recovery, as well as personal backups.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5 million and my A Round in 2005 was only $500,000 (and that’s all I ever raised).

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

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Back then were were looking for the same things users look for today – the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas.

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

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We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. companies versus the Web 1.0 Or was it.

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The Business of Gaming | REACH Games Event Recap

Tech Zulu Event

Because every week, every month you are adding new content, new versions to the game, tweaking levels…”. But before guests could truly indulge in the mixer portion of the night, they witnessed a panel that consisted of some of gaming’s best. Once the game gets released to the public, that’s when you add developers.