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See you at the TechCrunch Cloud Computing Roundtable on Friday

Looking forward to attending the TechCrunch Cloud Computing Roundtable on Friday.  Very good panel including our own Amitabh Srivastava from Windows Azure. 

Good post from Steve Gillmor who will be running the show:

"On Friday, the dialogue will be about when, not if. When did cloud computing begin? How far are we into the cycle? Is cloud computing a baby or an old man in diapers, and are we going backwards or forwards so fast that we can’t tell the difference? Or are we and cloud computing meeting in middle age, each ready for the other?"

Can you explain your product in 140 characters?

Marketers spend a lot of time working on descriptions of their product or service.  Often these take the form of press releases, PowerPoint decks and formats that entice you to use a lot of words.

Why not try to describe your product in a Tweet?  If you cannot distill the essence of your product or service into 140 characters or less you're making it too complicated. 

John Mullinax from Microsoft does this for Windows Azure here and another from Pascal Bourque a user of the service.