I am looking for new application and platform services

Virtual Goods economy in the cloud: www.virtualdoubloon.com

www.8KMiles.com
8KMiles is a distributed development platform that blends a global talent marketplace with collaboration tools and cloud infrastructure. 8KMiles platform allows businesses to build technology solutions at a substantially lower cost than traditional outsourcing models, without compromising on quality and security.

As you know there's Scalr, which uses the tools AWS provides to build a complete scaling platform for web infrastructure. You can create auto-scaling Cassandra clusters, automatically add caching, etc.

There's also http://www.notify.io/ that a friend of mine is making. It's pretty cool.

RunMyProcess (http://www.runmyprocess.com) is running on AWS and delivers a cutting edge and ergonomic "BPM as a service" platform, enabling rapid SaaS integration and workflow applications design. RunMyProcess is entirely available "as a service", through the web without any installation and with usage based pricing.

3000informatica (www.3000info.es) is a Spanish company that makes software for library management, previously we were selling licenses but currently we can sell services because we use Amazon AWS services to offer our customers the software, hardware and service management.
Thanks to Amazon AWS our company can turn into Salesforce of the library management services.
We have currently 10 public libraries on Amazon Aws.

Silentale (http://silentale.com) runs on AWS: our goal is to make your digital life easier by bringing your contacts, conversations, messages and attachments to your fingertips

Werner, I can DM an invitation code if you want to try it out.

Erwan (@zuzur)

I had started compiling a list of these of services on a recent blog post: http://mmcgrana.github.com/2010/04/cloud-infrastructure-abstractions.html.

A few of my favorites from the list are Heroku (Ruby application hosting as a service), SendGrid (inbound and outbound email as a service), and DirectedEdge (collaborative filtering as a service).

You might already be aware of a new category of applications for monitoring social (and other) media/communications for the purposes of business intelligence, including brand management.

It seems likely that the functionality of these tools could not only be combined with other tools if compatible interconnections were established, but could also be subdivided into building blocks if appropriate intra-connections were established. One type of building block functionality might be cloud-based communication of social/online content by, for example, providing adapters to convert sources (including RSS) into messaging or notification feeds for ingestion by many other building blocks.

Info on existing tools:

Many of these incorporate "sentiment analysis" using natural language processing and are being used to monitor and manage advertising campaigns in real time.

Some of these are monitoring a broader range of communications including blogs and other online content, and in multiple languages.

One source of links to companies providing these tools and services is at: http://www.monitoringsocialmedia.com/page/Guide+to+Social+Media+Monitoring+Tools

It will be interesting to see how this field develops and to hear whether this is of interest to you.

Thank you for your presentations at the AWS enterprise cloud computing event in London yesterday.

You can check out my company: http://www.critsend.com. We have a lot of EC2 customers.

TrackVia is a cloud application platform that empowers business users to rapidly develop apps without waiting on IT. And IT loves it because it's secure, backed up continuously, and scalable.

hi werner,

one new platform you certainly have to check out is peecho, a printcloud. with peecho you can print your physical material individually, and as close to the recipient as possible.

peecho is 100% amazon aws, and i believe its future is global.

http://peecho.com/

groet,
jurg.

Crowdflower (http://www.crowdflower.com) provides a platform for Labor as a Service. Uses Mechanical Turk as one of the sources of labor. (Disclosure: I'm an investor in both Twilio and Crowdflower).

Cloud Security made in Germany: http://www.corisecio.de/products/data/cloud_security/overview.php?lang=english

Urban Airship is one of my favorite PaaS examples. Push notification and in-app purchasing. http://urbansirhip.com

You can check out an emergency communications service optimized for the Gov-to-Civilian loop:

http://www.civiguard.com/

Teleku also provides a phone web service API in the cloud. You can even connect your Google Voice number to your web application to achieve a completely free telephony experience.

Hi Werner,

At Social Gold we've built a suite of products for virtual economies, including payment processing, virtual currency management, subscriptions and analytics. These are all "cloud services" themselves, and we're using almost all of Amazon's services on the backend.

http://getsocialgold.com

Best,

Mikhail

Security services: AWS desperately needs bundled security services above and beyond ACLs, VPN and VLAN. We need IPS, app-level firewall, security monitoring services (syslog aggregation, splunk.com service, other SIM/SEM) , authentication services (LDAP service, SAML, XACML), fine grained role-based access control for AWS console and account, per-host-ACLs etc.

Security services in a consolidated AWS bill, please!

Hi Werner,

At Social Gold we've built a suite of products for virtual economies, including payment processing, virtual currency management, subscriptions and analytics. These are all "cloud services" themselves, and we're using almost all of Amazon's services on the backend.

http://getsocialgold.com

Best,

Mikhail

Zementis ADAPA, a Predictive Analytics decisioning platform to deploy, integrate and execute predictive models and rules.
http://www.zementis.com/

Available on Amazon EC2, ADAPA enables users to leverage predictive analytics as decision services from any application or business process. Use it for risk scoring, marketing campaign management, or real-time predictive analytics within SAP applications.

A brief video introduction posted on YouTube:
“ADAPA Predictive Analytics Scoring Engine”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hNqxqrdXLI

Text Understanding with Zemanta.

Natural language processing was historically hard to do, you need deep stack of technologies, experts and lots of fine tunning.

Not any more. Zemanta (running on EC2) provides an API that allows for anyone to leverage state of the art in "text understanding", automatically providing stuff like tags, strong identifiers for mentioned phrases (connecting your data to Freebase, Wikipedia, MusicBrainz and other sites), related documents, related images and taxonomy classification.

Suddenly unstructured text inside your web service can be reasoned upon, augmented and mined. Premiere example application is "personal writing assistant".

Available at http://developer.zemanta.com

Andraz Tori, CTO at Zemanta

I nominate Urban Airship:

http://www.urbanairship.com

Palantiri Systems (http://www.palantirisystems.com) is combining Social Networking with the Internet of Things. We have created a community style collaboration platform running on AWS that targets both OEMs and end users. In this community, both people and intelligent devices/sensors are active members. The devices can blog, share their status, update and activity stream, post files, and otherwise interact with the rest of the community. In addition you can interactively chat with the devices, remotely view the device's UI, use our REST interface to pull data directly from the devices and existing enterprise applications to present in mashup widgets, and collaborate with other members of the community to solve problems, drive revenue, and otherwise engage your customer base.

Hi Werner,

Boomi offers an integration cloud; a platform that enables enterprises to connect their SaaS and Cloud applications with each other and with their on-premise applications. Our platform also enables ISV's to embed pre-built, packaged integrations to common SaaS and on-premise applications that is centrally developed and managed from our cloud.

Rgds,

-Rick

BitNami.org (sponsored by my company, BitRock) provides free, ready-to-run packages of open source applications as native installers, virtual machine images and cloud templates (currently for Amazon and GoGrid, with others coming soon.) The BitNami packages, called Stacks, are fully configured and completely automate the deployment process, so users of any technical skill level can have them up and running in minutes. We are preparing to launch a related offering that I would be happy to discuss with you privately.

http://drop.io is doing this for rich media --

Fred Wilson points to OnSip (http://www.onsip.com) as an example of "VOIP in the cloud." (I don't know if OnSip is a good example, but Fred is a reliable source.)

It seems to me that communication and connectivity services like this are naturals for cloud deployment, where cloud-enabled scalability and instant provisioning change the business model, rather than just lower costs.

At Acquia, all of our products are hosted/built on EC2.

For example, have a look at Drupal Gardens -- we're hosting thousands of Drupal websites on EC2. Other services built on AWS are Acquia Hosting (scalable cloud hosting), Acquia Search (Apache Lucene/Solr as a service), etc.

Another non-Acquia service that we use is Splunk, a hosted service for log management.

Feel free to drop me an e-mail if you want to brainstorm.

--
Dries Buytaert
Founder and project lead Drupal
Co-founder and CTO Acquia

There is plenty of online backup services already but I'd like to take this opportunity and spread the word on our product. CloudBerry Backup desktop edition, helps people automate their data backup to their own Amazon S3 accounts. We also have a version specifically designed for Windows Home Server.

Besides, we are working on a Managed Backup Service platform that will help Managed Service Providers offer re-branded backup service to their customers while leveraging a single Amazon S3 account and running the whole service on Windows EC2 machine.

I hope you will find it at least remotely interesting.