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This Week in Cloud Computing is an informative weekly series all about the hot new trend towards abstracting and virtualizing computing resources. Hosted by Amanda Coolong and Mark Jeffrey, we cover the players and providers, the applications and technologies, and the benefits — as well as the drawbacks. A rotating panel of experts joins us each week to discuss and debate the news and developments of the day. For the very best and latest in analysis of this important topic, This Week In Cloud Computing has you covered.
This Week In Cloud Computing airs LIVE Wednesdays at 3pm PST/ 6pm EST.
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Amanda Coolong hosts This Week In Cloud Computing
Amanda Coolong is a Web video producer, host and early adopter of social media.
She produces and hosts This Week in Cloud Computing, and has made guest appearances on every other show that starts with “This Week In”. A self-professed fan of technology startups, she has emcee’d Twiistup, the Influence Awards, and interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs.
Amanda is also known as the face of TechZulu.com, an online media company covering emerging and established technology brands by featuring the personalities behind them.
An upcoming authority on new media, Amanda co-hosted the Social Media Club’s live daily show from South by Southwest Interactive, and covered LeWeb in Paris as a member of the Traveling Geeks. She also reported from the red carpet during the inaugural Streamy Awards honoring excellence in Web television, and hosted the TechZulu live streams from BlogWorld and CES.
Amanda also brings her collective industry knowledge and contacts to a select group of clients under her consulting brand, Beta PR. She specializes in marketing and PR campaigns tailored to the needs of early-stage startups. She has over a decade of experience bringing technology brands to market on an international scale.
In her ‘spare’ time Amanda can be found performing Black Velvet at Tech Karaoke; or talking up TacticalCorsets.com, a venture that likely helped her secure the #3 spot on Violet Blue’s coveted list of Top 10 Sexiest Geeks for 2010.
Amanda graduated summa cum laude from Emerson College. She will tell you she received a Bachelor of Science in Speech, but her friends and colleagues will say she got a degree in how to talk, and she does it well. ;-)
She lives on the Interwebz as ‘acoolong’
Mark Jeffrey hosts This Week In Cloud Computing
Mark Jeffrey is a serial Internet entrepreneur, podcast pioneer and author. He co-hosts This Week in Cloud Computing and This Week In Android, and hosts This Week In Books (formerly Bibliotech). He is currently CEO and Co-Founder of ThisWeekIn, Inc.
Previously, Mark was CTO of Mahalo.com, Inc., a human-powered search engine focused on the top English-language search terms, including verticals such as travel, products, news, entertainment, sports, food, and health.
Prior to that, Mark co-founded business social networking company ZeroDegrees, Inc. and sold it to IAC/InteractiveCorp in 2004. He also was CEO and co-founder of SuperSig, Inc., an html email company.
His first company, The Palace, Inc., backed by Time Warner, Intel and Softbank, was a wildly popular virtual world that grew to 10 million users at its peak. It was was selected ‘The Best of 1996′ by Entertainment Weekly received numerous awards and coverage including a Webby Award nomination. Mark sold the company to Communities.com in 1998.
Mark has been named on of ‘50 to Watch’ by Variety Magazine presented as a featured speaker at the very first Harvard University Conference on the Internet and Society in 1996. Mark holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire.
His podcast novel “Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant” was released in 2005 and has received over 2.4 million downloads to date. Harper Collins bought the book in 2009 and will publish it in hardcover in 2011.
