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RightScale Rolls Out Grid Computing Product

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Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing. Tags: rightscale grid computing cloud software saas. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

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We see this as a community built on a trusted repository of structured data, something which ultimately helps everyone make decisions. How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? Is this similar? Gil Elbaz: Amazon has made public some data sets, which is great.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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As a consultant for Comcast and co-founder of G4 Media, Scot helped bring the world of video games to television in 2002. Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. So now is the time to step up and embrace what is truly the next iteration in gaming.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

While innovation is indeed listed as a top priority of OSTP, this "investment in innovation-enabling research" will not necessarily help STEM education, nor do anything to inspire America's youth. social software tools involves the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander – which is Twittering live from Mars, so to speak. Army, for example.

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

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Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see how big people like Match.com and eHarmony became on the trend of helping us find our dating partners and why this would be improved my mobile, social networks. reinvented, with more people online and trained.

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

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Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. So we only had to raise $500,000 to get going and again hardware ate just over 10% of the round. Think about it.

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