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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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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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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What special data, content, APIs, etc. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Content Management - do we need to allow easy editing of content in the system? Content access controls? Are regular users contributing content or only system administrators? How do you measure success? Dismissable?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What special data, content, APIs, etc. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Content Management - do we need to allow easy editing of content in the system? Content access controls? Are regular users contributing content or only system administrators? How do you measure success? Dismissable?

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

Both Sides of the Table

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. 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. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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

Both Sides of the Table

It’s central standard was HTML (hyper text markup language) that described how we would show data on computer screens. When web browsers (the programs that can read and interpret HTML) were popularized they were “dumb.” The costs of multi-platform development are too expensive. You need to log in to use it.

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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

SoCal CTO

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. if that was my chosen messaging platform. They send me a notification that there has been an update to the discussion thread.

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