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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform. It's funny.

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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

socalTECH

Gil is one of the founders of Applied Semantics, the firm acquired by Google for its AdSense technology. Gil Elbaz: What we have been working on, and what we offer now, is a platform where anyone can share and mash open data. How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3?

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. Not Google. Not Microsoft.

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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]. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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

Tech Zulu Event

As President of Game Development and Operations at SGN, a leading cross platform game developer and distributor, Josh Yguado is responsible for development, marketing, and operations for all games. He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media. Now all we need is YOU to: Join us!

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

Both Sides of the Table

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 They looked unstoppable.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

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. Cloud Data Platform. In case you don’t know Applied Semantics it’s Google AdSense.

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