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?

We were using a landing page on App.net with default settings, so users on iOS devices were dumped straight to the app store. Users on other devices (including PCs) were taken to our landing page for a presell.

We didn't have the infrastructure to support per-ad conversion/download tracking, hopefully we will for our next big spend.

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 wonder if they have fallen or if this is just a matter of perception. Obviously something positive is going on there.

I think they fell for a while, but in the last few years they seem to be doing very well.

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.

I think it's more our current ruling class than the system per se, although that depends on how you define "system".

No system can work if you have fools running it. Our big C Constitutional system has worked better in times past when better people were in office ... and worked worse when worse people were in, e.g. Hoover and FDR making their economic mess worse and prolonging and worsening the agony.

It's just not that bad yet. While e.g. Cash for Clunkers was pure "broken window" bogus economics, do we have anything quite as vile as the Agricultural Department destroying food and preventing its production while at the same time they calculate 1/4 of the nation is malnourished (which the DoD confirmed in the WWII draft)?

Well, maybe this is as perverse, although not hardly as vile. As grellas details in some length, in a period of bad economic times (starting with the dot.com crash) our ruling class as seen fit to steadily destroy the foundations for startups. And it's a general bipartisan thing, e.g. a ruling class problem.

There are, realistically (ignoring the rosy projections of going below a trillion in FY 12, a Presidential election year), trillion dollar annual Federal deficits stretching out as far as the eye can see. Where is this money going to come from? Not from new enterprises and new industries, there will be few if any new Apples, Suns or Googles ... hmmm, Microsoft managed to bootstrap itself, but such opportunities don't come along often and the computers and their components that ran Microsoft Basic and so on were largely/almost entirely not self-funded.

Bleah.

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.