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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing.

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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. Backup Software. Blog Software. CRM Software.

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

Both Sides of the Table

On NY Times I’m getting recommended articles by friends and I didn’t explicitly turn this feature on. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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

Both Sides of the Table

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? On NY Times I’m getting recommended articles by friends and I didn’t explicitly turn this feature on. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. It was mostly timing. The Present Era.