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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. Social Networking goes Real Time.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

A colleague working at the National Science Foundation said to me, "The lag time between fundamental idea and marketable product is usually longer than policymakers are willing to consider." Sylvester Reyes (D-TX), which is the STEM Promotion Act of 2007. You can affect this process. One example I found was H.R. 4151 introduced by Rep.

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

Both Sides of the Table

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).