HURRICANE IKE: Day 1 | Get out of town

When i finally arrived in Austin I went straight to the 2008 AWS start-up tour being hosted in the brand new Austin Music Hall in downtown.  This was mainly a technical show-and-tell for web start ups.  While the material was very technical I was able to grasp what Amazon was offering to provide to internet companies.  There were some interesting start-ups that were showcased here, for example other inbox which is another internet inbox for your email but with a new twist that is supposed to help unclutter your other inboxes like gmail or yahoo mail.  I signed up for the beta to test it out so we’ll see if it really as cool as they make it sound.  Splunk> was another internet startup that utilized Amazon’s services that mainly helps IT professionals analyze their data but I was most impressed with the speakers powerpoint presentation, I wish I had a copy to show because I haven’t seen a presentation put together like that before.  The last company to present was my buddy Ray’s company My Baby Our Baby.  His site allows parents to create online scrapbooks and photo albums that not only allows parents to archieve and organize memories to keep friends and family members current on juniors activities, but it also a way for friends and family members to upload thier own pictures of junior on the site to a more through memory book.

After the conference we met up with Doan to grab some dinner then we headed over to Blockbuster to rent Baby Momma and the new Madden 09 game.  I’m so exhausted I’m gonna just crash tonight.