Remove Customer Remove Design Remove RSS Remove S3
article thumbnail

Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. Compared cost there vs. second company that raised $500K and used S3 and other platforms. Completely agree.

Platform 150
article thumbnail

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

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. 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. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

article thumbnail

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

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?