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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Venture capital. Google Plus. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Whats Hot Menu.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. The Past (1985-2002).

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. But Friendster’s computer systems couldn’t keep up with the explosive growth (reportedly due to the complexity of the security model set up to control connections, privacy and authenticity of users) so MySpace was hot on the heels and swept up the market in a very rapid ascent.