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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

socalTECH

parent company of IDrive (www.idrive.com), to learn about his company''s online backup and sync products--plus how he wants to challenge companies like Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft with a bigger and better cloud backup and sync service, and by building that here in Southern California. How long have you had your product available?

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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. The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

Innovation in the end is about creating products, but largely the federal government doesn't make products; it buys them. So it may be fair to posit that after most of the research and discovery happens, people in the government wonder why it takes so long – and costs so much – to get a prototype or a finished product.

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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).

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics.

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