links for 2009-01-30

For a few thousand dollars huge stress tests can be acheived in as little as one hour. A major media site recently used SOASTA CloudTest and Amazon EC2 to test their music download site by simulating over 500,000 concurrent virtual users downloading songs.

Practice your startup pitch in front of an honest audience of fellow entrepreneurs. Hone the pitch until it works. Get the feedback that you need. Watch other pitches and see how yours stacks up.

Adobe has announced that they’ve recorded 100 million successful installations of Adobe AIR, the company’s cross-platform runtime environment for RIAs, at the same time boasting that the newest version of Adobe Flash Player (10) was installed on over half of computers worldwide in just the first two months of its release.