SmugMug launches SmugVault: protecting your digital negatives has never been easier

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

SmugMug has always been in a category of its own. I have been using it for longer than Flickr because it addressed my need for a sound place that will take care of my best pictures. Their mission to keep my pictures in perfect (digital) conditions makes me feel safe. ...

Around the web this week

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Back from an exciting week at La Baule for the World Investiment Conference & CaliforniaTechShowcase, I had to play catchup with the news this weekend. Here is what happened during the week: [OUTAGE] Amazon.com (not the Web services) was down for nearly two ours on Friday. They should learn from Twitter ...

Amazon EC2 with persistent storage in Private Beta

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Last week Google, in an attempt to enter the Clound computing market, launched Google App Engine and, just this morning, a major integration with Salesforce in order to penetrate the enterprise market. In the shadow of these big news, Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels has quietly announced this morning that EC2 ...

Around the web this week

Monday, April 14th, 2008

The past week has been intense. Quite a few subjects kept being discussed all week long. So, again, in no particular order... After Amazon EC2 outage last monday (aws forum, explaination from amazon, techcrunch), Facebook was plagued by an API bug that broke some of the 3rd party applications (bug report, ...