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

Both Sides of the Table

While Facebook was built on the idea that all our information was private and shared only between friend (before they changed this after the fact), Twitter was born under the idea that most of the information shared there was open and viewable by anybody. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Whats Hot Menu. what’s hot?

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

What inspired you to come up with the idea? use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment. Co-founder and Lead Architect Venkatesh Venkataraman led architecture for Cisco’s TelePresence Video Exchange where the first B2B interoperability TelePresence Exchange was built.

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

Both Sides of the Table

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: then bought GeoCities for $3.6