Only 7 Remain: Amazon Web Services Start-up Challenge Ends This Week
Amazon Web Services, a fascinating division of the company offering a collection of commodity computing services, data storage and more - all sold in the cloud - is about to conclude their Start-up Challenge contest. The contest will award one start-up that uses Amazon Web Services a $50k cash prize, $50k worth of AWS credit and "an investment offer from Amazon." Seven startups remain and the voting (including your vote, if you'd like) ends Thursday December 6th.
Because video is generally the best medium for demonstrating anything, Amazon has made nice videos about all the finalists' companies. We've got all 7 videos embedded here below the fold. Since we were apparently unavailable to be poked in the eye with a sharp stick, the next best thing Amazon could do to us was offer embedded videos all stuck on autoplay. You'll have to pause them yourself and then watch them one at a time. (If I'm wrong, please tell me otherwise - I added autoplay=false to these silly iframe embeds - but we're still rolling!) The cognitive power to watch 7 videos concurrently is currently not available from AWS. That said, which of the following real-live startups do you think ought to win the prize?
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thanks for posting these... I think justin.tv will win...
When I opened this page, all of the videos began playing at once. Total sensory overload...might want to check this out?
Ditto on the videos all playing at once. Most annoying and unwanted.
Yeah, sorry about that - as I said in the post I'm not sure what to do about it. I suppose I could pull them.
Don't pull them. I found if you let all of the videos load up and then click on the pause button for each video, you can return to the first video and hit the play button with out the sensory overload. You then can play each video in sequence or random. Thanks for the post. Justin.tv ROCKS!
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The presentation of Justin.TV was good. The concept looks innovative and will garner quite a good amount of attention. My vote goes to Justin.TV. Ooyala is just pipped to the second spot.