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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. 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. But what is magic about Twitter is that it is real time.

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

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GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! But Friendster’s computer systems couldn’t keep up with the explosive growth (reportedly due to the complexity of the security model set up to control connections, privacy and authenticity of users) so MySpace was hot on the heels and swept up the market in a very rapid ascent.