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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance.

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

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. 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). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

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. Star Trek Contest. Primary Menu. Skip to primary content. Newsletters.

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

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. So this combination of following people you found interesting who share links drove a sort of “news exchange&# that mimicked many of the features of RSS readers except that it was curated by other people! At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).