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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites: Meebo.