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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why some small businesses have pulled back from social media – [link]. Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link].

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) Social media related skills are also big, i.e. Facebook app development, and so on. For bonus points, make sure the back end uses Amazon EC2 and S3. and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software).

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. Candidates must be comfortable wearing many marketing hats including copy-writer, online promotions strategist, social media junkie, and more. Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. A couple of the more interesting ones: Amazon EC2 Google App Engine Salesforce.com Force IBM’s Blue Cloud All about end-user requests.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. I’m just in awe of what they’ve enabled and baffled that the media doesn’t give this more focus. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

From a technology perspective, so many parts of the stack have been made easier--from spinning up servers on EC2 and S3, to getting hosted Rails infrastructure on Heroku. New York will feature five this summer alone--Techstars, DreamIt, Startl and the NYC Seed/EDC Media and Finance incubators.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Jackie: I would recommend instead Amazons EC2 and S3 platforms. That said, I dont think EC2 is reliable enough to depend upon, and the entire reputation of a startup can hinge on that. Posted by: Jackie | September 10, 2007 12:27 PM @Matt (#20): That makes sense. Having total ownership and intimate knowledge of the spec.