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Technology Gazette Episode 46- Steve Rosenbaum of Magnify.net joins us

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So today’s guest was the CEO and Founder of Magnify.net. Steve Rosenbaum. This short bio was provided to me for reference, and I though you may wish to view a little bit of background on Steve:

Service Advisory:

No doubt many of you have experienced inconsistent server responses from your Magnify.net pages in the past hour or so. We wanted to let you know the source of this outage, and the steps we're taking to correct it.

Amazon S3 has been suffing a major outage this morning.  The outage has been at the worldwide servers of Amazon's S3 Simple Storage Solution offering that powers certain file storage and file delivery elements of the Magnify.net service.

Amazon S3 Service advisories over the past two hours alerted us to a problem, and we have been working with our development team to keep track of the problem , and to remove some of the dependencies that have impacted our pages during Amazon's outage:

Here is the link to the Amazon S3 service status page:

http://status.aws.amazon.com/

Here's the historic information about the Service from earlier today:

<blockquote>9:06 AM PDT We are currently experiencing elevated error rates with S3. We are investigating.
9:27 AM PDT We're investigating an issue affecting requests. We'll continue to post updates here.
9:48 AM PDT Just wanted to provide an update that we are currently... [More]

MAGNIFY.NET POWERS JONES SODA'S MYJONESVIDEO.COM

OFFERING NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR INNOVATIVE CONSUMER PARTICIPATION

 

Seattle, WA, July 10, 2008, Magnify.net and Jones Soda Co. are excited to announce a new partnership around MyJonesVideo.com, which will encourage creative and unique consumer participation in brand awareness and contribution.  Jones Soda, a leader in the premium soda category, is known for its variety of flavors and innovative labeling technology that incorporates consumer generated photos on the label. Noted as an Internet-savvy and youth-aware brand, Jones Soda has chosen to partner with Magnify.net to provide a new platform and fresh opportunity for Jones fans to express themselves.

This new partnership has created the opportunity ...

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Well,  it seems that the Magnify Mascot was stopped in transit out of the Sonoran Desert..  After some serious

interigation... he was released to DHL,  and is now in Allentown PA - on his way to New York.  We'll

have photo's from his Desert journey shortly - 

Meanwhile here's  a preview of his trip:

Hi Mascot,

Please free to visit me!  I'd love to meet you.   My Magnify site is Sonoran Desert Wildlife and Other Animals.  I've got a very distinct collection of Sonoran Desert wildlife videos and recently licensed some of my rare Gila Monster wild in its natural setting footage to a emmy-award winning west coast production company.  You can't get a better backdrop for a photo op than the Sonoran Desert wilderness which is where I'm very fortunate to live -- specifically in the heart of the Haley Hills about 60 miles south of Phoenix, Arizona.  The Haley Hills borders the Sonoran Desert National Monument renowned for its unique beauty and bountiful wildlife.  I'm sure the Mascot would love to get up close to a saguaro or two if he hasn'...

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If you've got big files,  long files,  or a need to be able to put up files in large quantity (rather than one at a time),  then this low cost flexible CDN solution can add a great new flexible capacity to your video offering.

We're adding this new 'bandwidth metered' service as a new alternative (don't worry - it doesn't replace anything or change any of our current offerings).   It's just a cool new choice for big video users.

This is service provides a 'next step' for folks who've used the Increased Uploads offering in Pro, and are looking for more of a scalable solution.

It is another piece to the video puzzle for web video users.   We've provided a suite of services that can be used to build video-centric solutions.

http://www.magnify.net/options/pro/cdn

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Here's the video review

jump to 8:25 to watch the review. (Hint.. they like us!)

Scott Banister, known for selling his startup IronPort to Cisco Systems for $830 million last year, and being an early investor in some hot companies - PayPal, Facebook, Powerset, just to name a few - was our guest host this week. He joined me and Vator regular Ezra Roizen to discuss Magnify, a company that powers user-generated-video for 30,000-plus sites. Bottom line, Scott, Ezra and I all agreed that Magnify has potential to be a significant business as UGC video becomes a requisite feature for all publishers. For Goozex, Scott and Ezra have some great advice.

For the past two days,  I've been hanging out with a room full of hard working entrepreneurs,  curious and engaged venture capitalists,  and the team that runs Early Stage East.   If you haven't heard of this event,  you should.   It's a ten year old passion project of David Freschman - himself a Venture investor - and it takes place at the historic Hotel du Pont in Wilmington.

I confess,  I hadn't spent a lot of time in Wilmington - so I was truly delighted to get to check out the downtown,  find myself in the middle of a huge outdoor jazz concert in the middle of the city at night,  and enjoy the company of such a great bunch of folks.

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Hey fellow Magnifier -

We've had amazing response to the Mascot's first week out and about in New York City.   He's  been on the Subway.  He's been to Columbia University.   He came to a Magnify.net board meeting.  He event had a night out with Obama Girl!

 


Now,  he's ready to travel the world.

So,  invite him to  your place - we'll pay the way.

Magnify Mascot will travel first class (fed ex)  to you.   He'll bring a gift (a brand new American Apparel   

Magnify T shirt),  and he's ready to have a photo take with you.

We're going to feature some of the best photo's,  most glamourous locations,   and most creative channel admins on our homepage over the next few weeks.

So,  if you're looking for a house guest who is flat,  and orange - we've got a guy who wants to v...

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Magnify.net has a terrific team of Board Members - and this Board Meeting had a special guest.   Despite the fact that Internet week had the mascot traveling back and forth across the city - and often hanging out late into the night - he was all smiles when he arrived at the Rose Tech Ventures board room to say hi and hand out magnify swag.

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