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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

With LaunchPad’s help, more than 61 Orange County companies have raised more than $97 million in startup capital, seed, and series A investments — and much of that money comes from Valley investors betting on their neighbors to the south. Saudi Arabia uses your gas dollars to fund solar energy Health Cisco helps build first U.S.

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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 ). At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?