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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Venture capital. With LaunchPad’s help, more than 61 Orange County companies have raised more than $97 million in startup capital, seed, and series A investments — and much of that money comes from Valley investors betting on their neighbors to the south. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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

Both Sides of the Table

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital.