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CapLinked Hit By Amazon Downtime

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Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked , which operates a software service to help companies communicate with investors, is one of the firms caught by the widespread Amazon EC2 downtime today. CapLinked said in its blog that its site is temporarily unavailable due to Amazon's hosting service issues. READ MORE>>.

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Mobicip Adds Parental Filtering for iPhone, Netbooks

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The firm said its new product, Mobicip.com Premium, offers tracking and filtering of web usage based on age-appropriate filtering levels, and also allows parents to create their own lists of allowed and disallowed web site for browsing. Mobicip uses Amazon.com's EC2 to power its service. for an annual subscription. READ MORE>>.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

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Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site.

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

Both Sides of the Table

At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Imagine that you can develop software on your local computer but the entire service is delivered virtually through a partner in the same way people consumer energy with all of the scale benefits that go with that. Think about it.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? in terms of time spent on the sites. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). It was mostly timing. The Present Era.