SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. Must be willing to work the way Google expects. Completely agree.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

[asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers.

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]. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo!

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318