Bezos and O'Reilly 2.0

theodp writes "Looks like Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly are investing together again, and this time it has nothing to do with patent reform. In Bezos Goes Web 2.0 Wild, Private Equity Week's Alexander Haislip reports that Explore Holdings, which as of late has been doing business as Bezos Expeditions, is one of 19 investors that have pumped $34.3M into O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures."

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Re:Not the best investment

[tcopeland]

> I don't think that Mr. Bezos would
> recognize a Web 2.0 application

On the other hand, Amazon is doing a bunch of innovative things, like the Simple Storage Service (S3). We're using S3 for indi [getindi.com] (with encryption, of course), and it's very, very handy; it keeps us from having to build out a big storage infrastructure.

There's also the Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) they're doing. I was at a Rails Edge conference last week and James Duncan Davidson [duncandavidson.com] did a nifty presentation on deploying Rails apps. The really neat thing, though, was that he deployed it to an EC2 machine rather than a local directory or even a local VMWare instance. Very cool stuff.