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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Lesson learned (to me at least) – let people get stinking rich off your platform and tax ‘em later.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing].

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. They realized that as entreprises were increasingly using many different Cloud-based applications they didn’t have good cross-platform tools for deployment, monitoring and decommissioning.

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