37signals Profile on Apple Website

Regular viewers of ScreenCastsOnline will know I'm a big fan of 37signals and have done a couple of screencasts on their products, including one sponsored by 37signals. They've always struck me as very smart guys with an incredible eye for detail, who have revolutionised the web with simple, well designed products that scale and just work. One blog post that made me smile was this from The Official Google Reader blog from those other smart guys over at Google. You'll see the Google guys have made a "Web 2.0" meter to measure just how "Web 2.0" Google Reader is. The meter ranges from Google thru Gmail thru Flickr to the maximum value - 37signals! Kudos Jason! To cap it all Apple have made a short, stylish profile video of Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hasson (the developer of Ruby on Rails). It's well worth a watch. And 37signals are well worth watching too!

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Holy Moly! - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) - Limited Beta

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.Just as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enables storage in the cloud, Amazon EC2 enables "compute" in the cloud.

Amazon EC2's simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon's proven computing environment.

Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use.Amazon EC2

Functionality

Amazon EC2 presents a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to requisition machines for use, load them with your custom application environment, manage your network's access permissions, and run your image using as many or few systems as you desire.

Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon EC2 / Amazon Web Services

Wow! This looks the bees kneez! I don't think I'm under NDA or anything but I got an invite to this a short while ago and I jumped across and signed up.

Truly groundbreaking stuff! This is what you call "Utility Computing"!

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Brand Confusion

I'm a great fan of 37Signals and love all their products especially Basecamp which I did a screencast on not too long ago.. I also like the minimalist style of their website. Just notice a new startup with some startling similarities on their website: BoxCloud..... BaseCamp... BoxCloud.... Basecamp looks like..... Update: Ash from BoxCloud has taken the time to respond to the original posting with an explanation for the similarities and announcing they are doing a complete redesign of the site. I've removed my potentally imflamatory comments in response to him stepping up to the mark and fixing the problem.

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