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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites: Meebo. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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