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Cloud Girlfriend on a Cloud Server?

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Cloud Girlfriend, is a pretty funny service that helps users create the illusion of perfect girlfriend by setting up dummy profiles that would write on your Facebook wall and fool your friends into thinking you had a social life, has launched to the public today.

Described by founder David Fuhriman as a combination of Match.com and Second Life, the new Cloud Girlfriends lets you flirt as a fantasy character setting up Chat Dates with others who also are role playing. “We allow people to define their ideal self, find their perfect girlfriend or boyfriend and connect and interact as if that person existed. It can help in learning how to manage a real relationship, and they then take it into the real world,” says Fuhriman.

Fair enough. Fuhriman’s original idea of creating fake Facebook profiles would have rubbed many people the wrong way as personal Facebook accounts have to belong to an actual person according to the TOS.  TechCrunch gave our a code to all male TechCrunch readers interested in checking it out can use the code “TechCrunch” up to the first 500. What I think is really funny is that they are letting all women use the service for free. lol

 

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Why Did Amazon Cloud Servers Go Down

Monday, April 25th, 2011

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If you don’t know that the Amazon Cloud is out of commission by now then you probably don’t use services like:  Foursquare, Redit, Cydia and many other large organizations that depend on their websites being up. The outages began April 21, and persisted through April 24, when Amazon began reporting progress restoring the affected storage volumes.  Some website today on the 25th seem to still not be online yet.  It’s pretty sad.

Amazon Stated, “As we posted last night (24th), EBS [Elastic Block Storage] is now operating normally for all APIs and recovered EBS volumes,” Amazon wrote in a status update to its cloud-services page. “The vast majority of affected volumes have now been recovered. We’re in the process of contacting a limited number of customers who have EBS volumes that have not yet recovered and will continue to work hard on restoring these remaining volumes.”

“If you believe you are still having issues related to this event and we have not contacted you tonight, please contact us here,” Amazon added. “In the ‘Service’ field, please select Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. In the description field, please list the instance and volume IDs and describe the issue you’re experiencing.

“We are digging deeply into the root causes of this event and will post a detailed post mortem,” Amazon added.

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Apple Job Posting for Cloud Services

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Apple is looking for a full time Engineer to join it’s team working on the Apple cloud hosting product. This position would be to join a “small team” that is working on something no less audacious than “the future of cloud services at Apple!” In a job posting, the company said that this team will be, ” writing the software [that] forms the foundation for some of our most exciting new products and services.”

The most recent cloud-based rumors to circulate about Apple include the company working on a video streaming service, a music streaming service, and some form of enhanced online locker for music and/or video files.

Apple is also known to keep its development teams small, at least compared to some of its competitors, and today’s job posting (which was discovered by AppleInsider) suggests that this new development team will be making the tools used by other projects at Apple.

The job listing didn’t reveal anything about Apple’s specific plans for future web applications or services. The ideal candidate will likely be deeply involved with building internal systems for sharing data across Apple’s family of cloud products. By asking for applicants that can collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and have experience constructing highly scalable software powered by a variety of data management systems, it looks like the Cupertino-based company wishes to add muscle to the core APIs that power its online products and services.

Apple currently offers a suite of web products and services called MobileMe for US$99.00 per year. Many, including The Wall Street Journal, speculate the company plans to dramatically enhance these services later this year. There’s also the beta iWork.com, which has been in beta since 2009.

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