article thumbnail

Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

socalTECH

How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? They are making storage available to people or to institutions who have data they want to share publicly, for free, on S3. In your launch you mention that Demand Media and others are using the platform. Is this similar?

Startup 190
article thumbnail

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

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

article thumbnail

Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. I used to recommend that companies only keep their non-core data on S3, I now recommend it whole-heartedly even for mission-critical applications. We raised $16.5

Startup 343