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What is a Content Delivery Network and What Types of Businesses Should Leverage It?

Southern California Edison Blog

A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of edge servers that accelerate website speed and content delivery by hosting content physically closer to customers via points of presence (PoP). Read More: Best Network Setups for Media Content Delivery. Improved User Experience. seconds. . Reduced Costs.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

Both Sides of the Table

. + web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML). The problem with AOL is that they bundled content with access and that content wasn’t really the web. The initial web HTML / browser experience was very limited. It was AOL. It was closed.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. What special data, content, APIs, etc. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Content access controls?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. What special data, content, APIs, etc. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Content access controls?

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). Jonah was working on his masters thesis and he asked Nike to produce a customized shoe with the word “Sweatshop” on it. Video is the new HTML.”

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

socalTECH

They''ve always had two businesses--the content business, which is what people are familiar with, with eHow, Livestrong, and other brands--and then they had the domain services business. The content business will remain as Demand Media, and the separate domain services pieces will be named Rightside.

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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

SoCal CTO

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. It does NOT contain the contents of that update. To see the contents you have to click a link to go to the site. Ning could easily send the contents of the message. I talk to a lot of founders of startups.

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