Comments on: Amazon + Two Guys + $0 = Next YouTube

By: Wiley

Wiley — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:35:37 +0000

I like these kinda of stories, two guys with ideas make their dream come true. www.blogtoilet.com

By: Fondation Erwin Mayer » SmugMug, un service pas du tout gratuit, mais une stratégie payante

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:30:27 +0000

[...] ne saurais que trop vous conseiller l’excellent blog du CEO, Don MacAskill, et en particulier ce post. Je reviendrai d’ailleurs dessus très [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:15:24 +0000

We’ve just gone live with S3…your articles were a great inspiration. HungryFlix is hoping to be those two guys with the next YouTube!

By: Salman

Salman — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:58:30 +0000

Great post, I think there sure are some real opportunities out there where developers can leverage S3 to build out some interesting web services. I think the biggest hurldle after the technology side of things is marketing (getting mentioned in popular media, websites, etc.).

By: SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » We’re in BusinessWeek again!

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:45:45 +0000

[...] We were lucky enough to be part of a BusinessWeek cover story last November, too. tags: chris macaskill, smugmug, businessweek [...]

By: SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Amazon S3: Outages, slowdowns, and problems

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:42:54 +0000

[...] The other two were performance-related. Not outages, because the service still functioned, but massively slower than we were used to. In the first case, which happened right as the BusinessWeek cover article hit newstands and during the Web 2.0 Summit, our customers were at our gates with pitchforks and torches. Our paying customers were affected and they could tell there was something wrong. Not good. [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:18:35 +0000

I think they just did – flikzor.com.

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By: Computing at Scale » Blog Archive » Infrastructure as a Service

Computing at Scale » Blog Archive » Infrastructure as a Service — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:56:43 +0000

[...] Amazon’s offering is aimed more at web companies that need to access the kinds of infrastructure that Amazon themselves use in their mainstream business. S3 provides a hosted storage service, while EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) provides compute power for applications and services. While it is understandable that those mainly interested in Amazon’s current core business (selling merchandise online) might see this as Jeff Bezos’ Risky Bet, the evidence so far suggests that Amazon are indeed capturing a demand that is out there for IaaS: Amazon + Two Guys + $0 = Next YouTube [...]

By: abstractplain » Blog Archive » Amazon S3: Show me the money

abstractplain » Blog Archive » Amazon S3: Show me the money — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:06:42 +0000

[...] blog post by SmugMug’s CEO on how he thinks using amazon S3 technology to run the photo-sharing site is saving him $500,000 USD / year. Also see his post Amazon + Two Guys + $0 = Next YouTube. [...]