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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. Completely agree.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Social Networks: Past, Present & Future.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers.