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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. What drove you to start MetaCloud?

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

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In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

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

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GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: then bought GeoCities for $3.6 They looked unstoppable. It was mostly timing.