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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites: Meebo.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. I was dead set against it.

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