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

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It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media.

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

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At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. They built in a feature called “auto scaling&# that monitored for traffic spikes and automatically provisioned new servers on demand and decommissioned them if your traffic surge subsided. In case you don’t know Applied Semantics it’s Google AdSense.

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