Double Feature: AMZN’s Web Services + Google Android

Didn’t even break a sweat on these two … too short … here was the skinny:

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Title/Link: Hall Conversation on AWS Duration: ~8m Speaker: Jeff Bezos CEO AMZN Recommend to Watch? No He really didn’t say much that hadn’t been already heard.

1. Why are they succeeding — AMZN is Selling Their Dog Food AMZN’s AWS offer started 4 years ago when they used a services style to seperate their network and applications team. In doing so, they realized the services they had seperated could be (w/ some tweaks) exposed out to customers as well and sold SaaS style. So if you could start a business based on the streamlined systems of AMZN … but with the option to take it on piece by piece … as in service by service …  we are talking about things like ‘add customer’ … plus the power of full app when needed … wouldn’t you? 2. The Best Is Yet To Come Bezo’s dodged this question simply referring to a new release of S3 allowing persistent storage. However, long term, if you look at their services in private beta you see a much broader picture. Payment solutions, eCommerce stacks, Fulfillment systems. Again, one would assume it would be service based … meaning you don’t buy an application (you get one but that isn’t where it ends). Instead, you also can extend that set of services w/ local customizations.

Interesting … but nothing groundbreaking … having a bit more time …. I wandered over to Google.

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Title/Link: Q&A on Google Android @ Google I/O (google’s 1st attempt at a conference) Duration: ~13m Speaker: Google Android Team Recommend to Watch? No Probably better off reading a blog. No notable points for the causal reader.

1. Can an OEM and/or telco create a marketing bundle that isn’t hacked? They were asked this question but skipped it. However there is meat behind this point. Google Android will have a huge development community. Odds of teleco’s being able to protect their holy ground (bandwidth, applications that are allowed on the device) are low. This could be an interesting problem for Android Developers. Telephone providers may have heart burn after people start running Andoid phones that are streaming movies from Netflix for example. Time will tell

Another snoozer.

The biggest lesson from these two … I shouldn’t of strayed from my rule that it has to be a presentation or a high end interview. Adhoc interviews (both of these) are more ‘hit-n-miss’ in revelations or insights. People take more time preparing for conferences. Quality of content is better.

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http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/01/bezos-talks-web-services/
Also mentioned on Nick Carr
……………..○ 6/2/2008, 6:26 AM
……………..○ Complexity inside … network and apps
…………………………….§ Bulid interface between groups
……………..○ Services solution
……………..○ 4 years ago
……………..○ 2 years to build services
…………………………….§ Simple queue
…………………………….§ Storage
…………………………….§ Ec2
……………..○ People are using those services
……………..○ 6/2/2008, 6:27 AM
……………..○ Why book retailer innovating here
…………………………….§ Retail is a low margin business
…………………………….§ Efficiency is key to their low margin business
…………………………….§ So their culture might of drove it
……………..○ 6/2/2008, 6:28 AM
……………..○ Why do cloud computing … per wall street
…………………………….§ These services drive their businesss
…………………………….§ They are jut doing it in a manner to share
……………..○ 6/2/2008, 6:29 AM
……………..○ What is next
…………………………….§ Persistent storage in ec2
……………………………………………□ Limited beta
…………………………….§ Cloud computing webservices for startups .. Grateful
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http://techbays.com/2008/05/29/google-io-android-qa/
6/2/2008, 6:30 AM
……………..○ 2nd half this year is release plan
……………..○ http://www.AndroidCommunity.com
……………..○ Buy device or retro fit?
…………………………….§ Software opensource …so anyone can use it
……………..○ High use of touch
…………………………….§ Platform is very generic to UI
…………………………….§ Showed a touch screen
…………………………….§ Could of done w/ trackball
……………..○ Touchscreen demo … detail
…………………………….§ Vendor did it … NDA
…………………………….§ Details … qualcomm processor
…………………………….§ Synaptics touchscreen
…………………………….§ Memory …128mb of ram … 256 on flash
……………..○ 6/2/2008, 6:34 AM
……………..○ What was shown first?
…………………………….§ Notifications
…………………………….§ Desktop launcher (spatial representation of workflow)
…………………………….§ Compass / GEO location
…………………………….§ Unlock via user gestures
…………………………….§ PacMan
……………..○ 6/2/2008, 6:34 AM
……………..○ Google will provide?
…………………………….§ Infrastructure to OEMs
…………………………….§ Developers will range from free to buy
……………..○ 6/2/2008, 6:36 AM
……………..○ Who was represented in team
…………………………….§ A lot of interest … globally
…………………………….§ Collaborative in many countries
……………..○ 6/2/2008, 6:36 AM
……………..○ Why in house till now? When open … what open/closed?
…………………………….§ Usually in the middle
…………………………….§ Now a corporate sponsor is different (usually organic)
…………………………….§ Important to have a open stack in industry in mobile
…………………………….§ When handset can run stack well … they will release
…………………………….§ What liscense?
……………………………………………□ Contribute intellectual
……………………………………………□ Apache liscense … use software … any pieces … contribute modifications back is optional
……………………………………………□ Linux stack is example
…………………………….§ Everything shown to date is open source
……………………………………………□ Exception … google services being used … not long term block … roadmap issue
……………..○ 6/2/2008, 6:39 AM
……………..○ Platform … Envision carriers to allow people to hack their phones? Pose problems for them (mgmt, reliability?) carriers or parents.
…………………………….§ His answer … why not?
…………………………….§ Current platform is 20 years old
……………………………………………□ Use lowercase l instead of 1’s
…………………………….§ Security gets better (in options) in platform
…………………………….§ Bauer comment — Still I think the point is valid. This will be highly hacked. Blocks on bundles getting broken (like AT&T and Usage of IP ) will be hard … just by # of developers

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