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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago.

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

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Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. Orange County alone is home to more than 300 medical device companies with world-renowned leadership in ophthalmic and cardiovascular devices – a far cry from the “silicone” valley that Ms. VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

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TenHands is also a platform that others can use to deliver real-time communications in any browser-based application, from Enterprise Social and Collaboration Applications like Jive, Salesforce and Box to applications that are more oriented toward consumers such as Facebook (check out at https://apps.facebook.com/tenhands ) or Yahoo.

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

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AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo!