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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

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OpenStack is the set of open-source software designed to allow any hosting firm to offer up similar services to Amazon EC2; the OpenStack project was originally based on technology developed by Rackspace and has since spread widely to other ISPs. DreamHost has been offering the service in beta since October of last year. READ MORE>>.

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

Tech Zulu Event

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. On October 24th tech enthusiast will come together to discuss the latest in Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming. Now all we need is YOU to: Join us!

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. Compared cost there vs. second company that raised $500K and used S3 and other platforms. In second venture - compared Salesforce.com vs. S3 - as platform.

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

Both Sides of the Table

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." It proposed to fund advertising to encourage young Americans to enter the science and technology workforce. government.

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

Both Sides of the Table

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time. Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t.