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Interesting development for live media productions. The article also mentions uses for data logs and surveillance footage. Always good to see new innovative solutions, not just more me-too products.
I think you're solving a problem that is becoming increasingly critical for many businesses. AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure are so enterprise focused that startups to mid-level businesses are getting killed once their storage credits run out and they have to pay full enterprise prices. Finding alternatives is a painful process of trial and error. Having a trusted recommendation engine would go a long way towards relieving that pain point. Good luck!
From Gleb (CEO) comment on the blog. "Yes - B2 is still a more cost efficient API as it allows customers to connect directly to the final storage location. However, we have built a highly cost efficient load balancing system as we always have - using software to optimize inexpensive hardware - and are swallowing the additional costs for our customers."
Love that quote “Solutions Exist” does not mean “Problem Solved.”
Great interview with Backblaze's CEO on how they went from building wooden storage pods in a one bedroom apartment to taking on Amazon S3 cloud storage and crushing them on price.
Thanks for sharing the stats, always love seeing real world examples. Couple of questions - 1)Where you taking people directly to the app store page or a landing page? 2)Did you see any significant differences between the sites in terms of conversions/downloads? Between the sites your performance campaigns?
Nice to see there is still a little bit of innovation going on at Yahoo. Really sad to see how far they have fallen in the tech world.
I know location will be big but not sure Foursquare will be the winner. Square and Toktumi both look solid to me.
Wow, the economy is stumbling and the only way out is innovation and now they are trying to make it harder to start a company. Just how do they propose we get the economy back on track? Sorry printing more money is not a long term solution to economic recovery. It amazes me that our elected officials have zero grasp of how the economy works. These are supposedly educated people and yet they consistently treat the economy like some grade school battle for teacher's pet honors. Sorry for the rant but crap like this makes me question the viability of our current governing system.
As @rmaccloy I'm not against the idea of bank reform but these types of provisions and attachments to bills are causing so much waste and then we wonder why we have such a huge deficit.
Love this app, can finally use my iPhone at home. Never had a dropped call on WiFi and the sound quality is great. I know there are a few portable personal WiFi devices out there. Any recommendations? When my AT&T contract is up I'm thinking of just using my iPhone with a WiFi device and drop AT&T completely.
Let the conspiracy theories begin. Line2 was the number 1 download for the entire App Store today before the companies two sites, www.toktumi.com and www.line2.com went down along with their voice servers from a coordinated DNS attack. Two different avenues of attack definitely ups the anti in terms of resources mustered to pull the DNS off. Who's behind it?
I use it on my iPhone, dropped my unlimited plan to 450 minutes, saves $30/month Toktumi is only $15/month so saves $180/year and now I can actually use my iPhone at home. Very cool app, going to test on my iPod one of these days too.