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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

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How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? They are making storage available to people or to institutions who have data they want to share publicly, for free, on S3. Is this similar? Gil Elbaz: Amazon has made public some data sets, which is great.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Total raised: $1.74mm – Read more: TechCrunch , Wired article. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. Competition: Apple iPhone App Store Genius.

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

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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). This trend of social pervasiveness will continue. Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites. Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

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

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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). This trend of social pervasiveness will continue. Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites: Meebo.

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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. Compared cost there vs. second company that raised $500K and used S3 and other platforms.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

Related to this, one of my personal initiatives at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) is called Social Software for Security, or S3. He has also penned many opinion/commentary articles on scientific research, science policy, and the intersection between life sciences and national security.