Joyent Supports hi5 and Open Social
MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA – March 13, 2008: Expands Social Networking partnerships by providing free Accelerators optimized for the Open Social platform.
Entrepreneur Mark Otero has launched 15 social network applications, including “PuppyPix” on MySpace and “You and Me?”, a real-time dating application, on Facebook – all successfully running (and scaling) on Joyent Accelerators.
Joyent’s customer get Dugg, Slashdotted, Oprah’d, and even highlighted on CNN – all live to tell the tale. There is something to be said about having a highly scalable infrastructure in place to ensure your website is up when the traffic is there.
Joyent is among a group of vendors looking to disrupt the IT space with cloud computing offerings.
Small(er) companies like Joyent are making a mark in the utility/cloud computing space.
Dan Farber and David Young discuss the release of Joyent’s Player’s Club, our ‘hosting’ offer for Facebook and OpenSocial developers and our thoughts on Google’s announcement of App Engine. Read more.
Joyent provides one free Joyent Accelerator to the first 3500 Facebook developers that sign up in their new program.
One of the factors making it much easier for independent software vendors (ISVs) to adopt SaaS is the emergence of virtualization technology. Joyent’s virtualization will be a big factor this year in helping many ISVs, large and small, get their first experience of delivering software in a service model.
MLB Advanced Media embraces virtualization and launches a new chat service using Joyent Accelerators.
Richard Martin stopped by the office and had a little chat with Dave and Jason about Joyent and our mission to build a platform for a new era of business computing. What came of it was this lovely little article.
Corel releases the public beta of its WordPerfect Lightning product which provides their users access to Joyent’s collaboration suite (“Connector”).