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DreamHost Debuts Public Cloud Storage Service Into GA

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DreamHost , the Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud services provider, said Tuesday that it has debuted its DreamObjects public cloud storage service into general availability, aiming the service at application storage, Web site backup, content storage, disaster recovery, as well as personal backups. READ MORE>>.

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

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Back then were were looking for the same things users look for today – the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

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Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. OpenEvents and OpenReviews, were early attempts at standardizing schemas and shared servers for these forms of micro-content. I would tend to agree. AppExchange on Salesforce.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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Wilson is the President/COO of Paltalk, a profitable leading live social interest/topic & content based video and chat community, with millions of active users a month, cross platforms. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Before working in California, Chris worked for Maryland based game companies MicroProse and Games Workshop.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SoCal CTO

The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates. You need to push out anything truly persistent to another machine and/or storage, e.g., S3.

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

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We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. They controlled distribution to the masses.