This Week in Cloud Computing - Leslie Fine, Chief Scientist, Crowdcast and Taylor Mingos, CEO of Shoeboxed

This week we have Leslie Fine, Chief Scientist, Crowdcast and Taylor Mingos, CEO of Shoeboxed. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.

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NEWS HEADLINES
1) A major report from Fujitsu says economic stress, demographic changes, globalization and increased mobile services will all influence how cloud computing develops over the next 10-20 years.
http://bit.ly/fujitsureport

2) The U.S. Census Bureau is a great use-case of the benefits of cloud computing. They took advantage of SaaS and IaaS providers during peak times for the 2010 census.
http://bit.ly/censuscloud

3) EMC has shut down its Atmos cloud storage service to avoid competing with its software customers.
http://bit.ly/emcatmos

4) Amazon attempting an IT switch to AWS.
http://bit.ly/amazonIT

5) Zoho Calendar has moved out of beta
http://bit.ly/zohocalendar

INTERVIEW
Leslie Fine, Chief Scientist, Crowdcast
http://www.crowdcast.com/

Business intelligence tool for tapping the collective knowledge of employees

Leslie, a forefront thinker in game theory and market and mechanism design, develops the tech & design behind the Crowdcast platforms. She has filed nine patents on mechanism design, three of which she authored while developing Crowdcast's leading prediction market technology. Her work has been recognized by The Economist, Scientific American, Financial Times, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and All Things D.

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Taylor Mingos, CEO, Shoeboxed
http://www.shoeboxed.com/

Before starting Shoeboxed in 2007, he was part of the team that launched studiVZ.net in Germany, a social networking site that has since become one of the largest sites in continental Europe and was acquired for $100 million. He has also owned a successful video production company and has helped launch other social networking sites. Taylor graduated cum laude from Duke University in 2007 with a triple major in biomedical engineering, electrical engineering and German. Just released version 2.0 of the Shoeboxed iPhone app. This week rolled out a unified viewing feature that makes using the online app even easier.

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