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

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encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Yet the number of businesses looking to build on the Facebook platform seems to have increased. They looked unstoppable.

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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. Cloud Data Platform. Okta solves this and more. Business Logic.

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