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

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MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

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

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MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). SimpleGeo is designed with the idea that startups can create new mobile products without having to each build their own mapping functionality.