If you want to measure how fast the clouds are moving in tech industry – yes despite all the scary stories about economy – then check this interview of Ron Conway. Ron is a uber angel investor in Silicon Valley and has perfected the art of riding a new trend.

What makes cloud computing really explosive is old cliche – it’s an idea whose time has come! Many trends are converging – Cheap bandwidth, low power consumption requirement, emerging market needs, rapidly maturing computing stack, telecoms hungry for data based revenue …

Platform-as-a-service startup, 10gen, has scored their Series A investment from Union Square Ventures. Backed by proven management team, DoubleClick ex-CEO is one of the founder, company plans to take on Google App Engine and Amazon cloud computing offerings.
From their press release:
10gen (http://www.10gen.com/), creator of a new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technology that helps developers more quickly and easily build dynamic, scalable Web sites and applications, today announced $1.5 million in Series A financing from Union Square Ventures. The cloud computing company, founded earlier this year by DoubleClick veterans Kevin Ryan, …