Remove Capital Remove EC2 Remove S3 Remove Yahoo
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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others.

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

Both Sides of the Table

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). History repeats itself.