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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

Tech Zulu Event

When building a new application, the fundamental rule is that you should choose any services that allows you the greatest combination of flexibility and resources to meet your application’s needs. For example, IaaS providers will give you raw infrastructure like compute and storage resources.

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Google Cleaning Out Their Closets

Tech Zulu Event

The giant search engine is set to end less used products or combining a number of them into more resourceful ones. Google Talk Chatback a text chat widget for Web publishers allowed websites to embed a Google Talk widget so that they could engage with their visitors. Another service facing the axe is Google Talk Chatback.

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The Series A Crunch Is For Entrepreneurs Who Can’t Create Their Own Luck

InfoChachkie

The nasty and brutish deaths of the unfortunate turtles are disquieting , but the process ensures that the survivors are (on average) strong, healthy and able to capitalize on the ecosystem''s resources. There is a similar Darwinian aspect to venture capital investing. There are no villains in the current Series A drama. Share and Enjoy.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

SoCal Delicious

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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Entrepreneurs Now Start Hyperlocal Then Go Global

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. The big news outlets don’t have the staff or resources to chase these types of stories. Give people a way to follow news around a particular block. Geographic customization.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. Most likely, a Level 2 platform's apps also call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning.

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Smart Startups Think Global But Act Hyperlocal

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. The big news outlets don’t have the staff or resources to chase these types of stories. Give people a way to follow news around a particular block. Geographic customization.

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