Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Inside Sony had a “booth” showing off their latest Vaio products for people to test and preview. Verizon Wireless displayed a slew of new innovative technologies such as the VGO Robotic Telepresence. LootCrate was also on hand, displaying their cool swag box for gamers along side their Xbox 360 gaming stations loaded with Call of Duty.

Lootcrate 80

Lootcrate S3 Education Activision 80

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. These are very different.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands. Earlier in her career, Robin held strategic planning, brand management, new product development, and marketing services roles at The Coca-Cola Company, Revlon, and Johnson & Johnson.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Publishers can come and snap valuable data into our website, to augment end user's experience, and developers can help user our data and our API to build more innovative applications, and to be more productive because of the significant availability of this trusted data. That became the underpinning of several products.

Startup 190

Startup Google S3 Platform 190

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Innovation in the end is about creating products, but largely the federal government doesn't make products; it buys them. So it may be fair to posit that after most of the research and discovery happens, people in the government wonder why it takes so long – and costs so much – to get a prototype or a finished product.

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. Now I don’t get any.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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. And Wikipedia is deflationary meaning it takes the costs of production to almost zero.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343