Posted by Jeff Lu on April 8, 2009
By Scott Rosenberg
I was on Killerstartup.com today and the first company OrSiSo.com sounded interesting so I decided to watch a video about the product on the company’s website. In short, they are a social media aggregation platform, sort of like friendfeed but better. I forwarded the link to my coworker and I told him about the merits of the product.
Now you would think that the very next thing I did was use the product… but I didn’t because there was a problem. The product was absolutely free but I was still unwilling to use it because I had to DOWNLOAD it. I informed my coworker of this minor detail and his response was, “oh, in that case it’s not very interesting”.
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Posted by Jeff Lu on February 23, 2009
Web 2.0 is over.
I’ve been working on revamping our Cascadia’s 2009 Internet Book and will post it here as soon as it’s viewer ready, however, we’ve had a lot of internal debate on what the future of the Internet is and what trends will prevail and what type of companies will succeed.
For me, one of the most undeniable trends that we must address is Cloud Computing. The overall cloud computing product in the market isn’t where it needs to be (as evidenced by Amazon’s massive S3 outage last year and Salesforce.com’s outage earlier this year) but with all the major hardware, Internet and software players getting into the game, I believe that it will be soon.
credit: UCSB
I really like UCSB’s cloud ontology as it gives people who are nascent to cloud computing a good basic introduction to the various components of the cloud. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
