Well, it's been exactly one month since we announced Ångströ at TechCrunch50. We've spent the last few weeks building out the product and making it robust enough to meet our customer service standards.

To date, we've collected over a million news stories about over ten thousand professionals. In the process, we use an immense amount of computing power -- at least by comparison to other pub/sub projects we've worked on. To migrate our setup from prototype to production, we're relying on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Block Store (EBS). We can now bring up more slaves to handle our newspaper rendering code while also gaining great snapshot-based backup and even better availability than our current colo solution. We still rely on our own tuned hardware platform for NameSense, but we've moved everything else into the cloud...

We've learned a lot from the feedback we've received from that over the past month, but most of all from our first batch of beta testers. Our first group of post-TechCrunch50 users have been busy kicking the tires and pushing the boundaries. Thanks again to all those participating - your feedback has been extremely helpful. We're busy documenting reactions from the initial users and are feeding those back into our product development cycle as quickly as possible.

We'll be opening up Ångströ to the next group of users in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone for their enthusiasm — and patience!