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

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What I realized in working with so many startup technology firms is that even if you don’t give permission to third-party apps to access your information much of it is available anyways as long as somebody you’re connected to is more promiscuous with third-party apps. And now they want to revolutionize email.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time. No prizes for guessing … there’s ALWAYS a second act in technology. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).