Monthly Archives: February 2008

Flash vs. AJAX is The Wrong Question

Posted on February 27, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Following my post on the Flex 3 and AIR launch, a number of you have pinged me privately about the Flash vs. AJAX question. It goes something like this: “I know you are going to write that you prefer Flash/Flex because … Continue reading →

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Adobe Engage 2008 To Launch Flex 3.0 and AIR

Posted on February 24, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Tomorrow, at the invitation-only Engage 2008 event in SF Adobe will launch AIR and Flex 3.0. If you want to get a sense of what will be shown, here are the slides from the January pre-release tour. The event has … Continue reading →

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Lessons on How to Use Amazon Web Services

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

From a comment on my post on the AWS outage comes a link to a great presentation on how to successfully use AWS from SmugMug founder Don MacAskill given at ETech last year.

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Amazon Web Services Outage: Causes And Remedies

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

If been a big fan of Amazon Web Services (AWS) because they lower the costs of startup experimentation. I’ve sponsored their events, judged their startup competition, etc. I have friends on the team. I’ve also had frank conversations with them … Continue reading →

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Consumer-Selected Sponsorship

Posted on February 15, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Sponsorships are growing as an advertising concept and the most interesting sub-segment is the one where consumers select the sponsors they want to be associated with. One of our companies, AWS Convergence Technologies (the folks behind WeatherBug) was a pioneer … Continue reading →

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Shopping vs. Buying

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

It’s Valentine’s Day and blogging about e-commerce just feels right… Keep your fingers crossed for ice.com, one of our recent e-commerce investments. It’s a big week for their business. I had a good discussion today with a friend of mine … Continue reading →

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Folksonomies For Email

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

I gave up on using folders for email management a while back for a number of reasons: No single hierarchy works well for me. I don’t think I’m unique in that respect. Humans generally have a hard time with cut … Continue reading →

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Viral Dictionary

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

I met the folks at Pandemic Labs a few weeks ago at a MITX event. Great small team–a technology-leveraged agency specializing in viral and social marketing. Their new site launched over the weekend and the viral dictionary caught my attention–I … Continue reading →

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MIT 100K Startup Competition Kicks Off

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

The mother of all university startup competitions, the MIT 100K business plan competition, kicked off last night at the funky Stata Center at MIT. The competition takes three months–the finals are on May 14. I had a chance to talk … Continue reading →

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Strategies For Startup Success

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

I gave at talk this morning at Yankee Group. It was part of the SmartSpeaker series that CEO Emily Green has been organizing for a few months now. Many months ago, over breakfast, Emily asked me to give a talk … Continue reading →

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