Amazon, one of the initiator of the “on-demand” trend has recently showed it still wanted to innovate in this through several major announcements :
Mechanical Turk : the crowdsourcing marketplace is now more accesible to nonprogrammers by offering a Web-based editing tool. People are now able to create a task online get their work done.
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15 Jul, 2008
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Engine Yard, provider of a Ruby and Rails deployment platform, announced a Serie B financing round of $15 million, implicating New Enterprise Associates, Inc., Benchmark Capital and Amazon.
Here is the official announcement
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Animoto, a succesfull startup enabling people to create dynamic slideshows and spread them trough various social-networks, has managed to deal with its growing server instances thanks to Amazon Webservices : S3 and EC2. Thanks to Amazon, they managed to scale from the equivalent of 50 servers to 2,500 in only three days!
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