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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.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What special data, content, APIs, etc. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Dismissable?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What special data, content, APIs, etc. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Dismissable?

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

The top line is available storage (S), the middle line represents processing power (following Moore’s law) or (P) and the bottom line is the Network (N). In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking. The WWW is the presentation layer.

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

socalTECH

Rahul Sonnad: It runs on iPhone, Google Android, and will be running on a netbook with a major OEM this April, and in the near future you'd expect it to run on HTML alone. Actually, from that, I just got lots of analogies with publishing geographic specific content. Can you talk a bit about your prior background?

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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).