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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. Cloud Data Platform. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics.

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