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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. All about end-user requests.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Streaming media. Social media. In a recent Forbes.com article , contributor Tara Brown wrote of her own misapprehension moving from San Francisco to Southern California, saying, “I’m a technologist and moving away from the tech hub of the world to the land of Botox seemed like a really bad career move. Web Design Software.

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

Both Sides of the Table

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. On NY Times I’m getting recommended articles by friends and I didn’t explicitly turn this feature on. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t.