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JUNE 28, 2011

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. That little online book company. Not Google. Then they launched a simple database, management tools and so on. Amazon will surely keep moving up the stack. Amazon changed our industry. This is mind boggling.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. It encouraged groups of people to email everybody in their email address books and “connect&# on Plaxo so that when any of their contact information was changed online it could by synchronized with everybody’s local computer version and thus we could all stay in touch.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 Google turned YouTube into one of the most valuable future Internet properties. The Past (1985-2002).

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Especially to a company that sells books! To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. If you’re not knowledgeable on the topic of this big IT migration to the cloud I’d suggest reading Nicholas Carr’s book, “ The Big Switch.&#.

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