SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. Compared cost there vs. second company that raised $500K and used S3 and other platforms. All about end-user requests.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. What I realized in working with so many startup technology firms is that even if you don’t give permission to third-party apps to access your information much of it is available anyways as long as somebody you’re connected to is more promiscuous with third-party apps.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. So this combination of following people you found interesting who share links drove a sort of “news exchange&# that mimicked many of the features of RSS readers except that it was curated by other people! At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318