I had a great time at the TechCrunch50 show this week.  Looks like I made the right decision to go since reports are that there won’t be another TechCrunch50.  Sure, there’s going to be TechCrunch30 next year!

I am still trying to catch up on sleep, and process all of the great interviews I did down there.  I was humbled that so many developers and entrepreneurs would speak on camera with me and allow me to listen to why they aren’t using .NET.  There was plenty of love on the the Twitter stream, and I even managed to impress one Robert Scoble.  I am now officially a two-time Scoble impresser.  Where’s my XBox Achievement for that?

I came across this article on the birth of Amazon EC2. Buried in the middle is this gem:

Before one mockup, diagram, line of code, or anything had been done, they wrote the FAQ and the press release. Customer first design makes things very black and white during a dev cycle.