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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

“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. When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur?

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. While real estate and tourism continue to be strong economic drivers, there is also a thriving business climate developing life-changing technologies. Cloud storage.

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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

socalTECH

You've got an interesting team - combination of deep technology, enterprise software, computer gaming, special effects, Hollywood - how did the team come together? For us, we are currently deployed on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and that essentially allows us to horizontally scale in the way that we need to. That's a key change right there.

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

Both Sides of the Table

It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time.