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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. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Compared cost there vs. second company that raised $500K and used S3 and other platforms. Server and client in Java.

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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 ). It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified.

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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 ). Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?