Remove Acquisition Remove EC2 Remove S3 Remove Yahoo
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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). History repeats itself.