Archive for February, 2009
Jason Lemkin and the team over at EchoSign are facing a bit more competition from version 2 of InstaSign by E-Lock Technologies. Jason was one of the speakers at the recent Dealmaker Media Strategy Series events that I blogged here. It will be interesting to see if there is really room in the market for [...]
Amazon had their earnings call for their Q4 2008. Buried in those numbers are the numbers for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Eric Engleman did some very brief analysis showing that the “Other Revenue” category (which includes AWS and other…others.) did $542M in 2008, up 41.5% from 2007. If we guess that AWS makes up 25% [...]
Gartner pissed in the proverbial punchbowl this week with their prognostication that cloud computing will not be mature until 2015. Jon Foley was surprised by the conservative nature of this prediction. Rightscale reacted (appropriately and expectedly) by saying “but it’s exciting now!” I have to say that having been involved in the building of two [...]
Google launched Latitude – a features in Google Maps that lets you keep track of your friend’s locations. As with all technologies, this one will pose new challenges. I can’t wait for the first divorce stories to hit the press where spouses tracked their spouse’s activities and logged all of the locations they stopped. “Your [...]
Small and medium sized business customers are flocking to Google Apps. One of Google’s spokespeople said that they were adding 2,000 customers per day at the end of 2007 and 3,000 customers per day at the end of 2008. I decided to do a little math to see what this all meant. Assuming that Year [...]
My sister sent me this video and I just had to share it.