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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

TenHands was Incorporated on January 11, 2011 and launched its first alpha service in November of 2011, private beta in April 2011 and open beta in July 2012. What inspired you to come up with the idea? use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. And, let’s not overlook the research juggernaut called Caltech, which managed $332 million in sponsored research and $1.77 We came to play.

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

Both Sides of the Table

While Facebook was built on the idea that all our information was private and shared only between friend (before they changed this after the fact), Twitter was born under the idea that most of the information shared there was open and viewable by anybody. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).