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What is a Content Delivery Network and What Types of Businesses Should Leverage It?

Southern California Edison Blog

A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of edge servers that accelerate website speed and content delivery by hosting content physically closer to customers via points of presence (PoP). Read More: Best Network Setups for Media Content Delivery. What Types of Companies Benefit from CDN Traffic Transportation Services? .

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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 ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

Both Sides of the Table

. + web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML). The initial web HTML / browser experience was very limited. Because over time users will demand open. The Internet existed long before the World Wide Web and web browsers were created. non-mobile).

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

The firm used to be called Fotouhi Alonso and were one of LA's top mid-sized agencies for 20 years, working with clients like Honda, Epson, the LA DWP, and the FX Network. It launches November 16. . :) What do you think of the concepts of visible networking and online business networking in Los Angeles ? Having fun again.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Video is the new HTML.” I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. What I can tell you from my vantage point?

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My Professional Advice for 20 Years Olds

Jason Nazar

Working for someone that demands excellence and pushes your limits every day will build the most solid foundation for your ongoing professional success. Both the Size and Quality of Your Network Matter – It’s who you know more than what you know, that gets you ahead in business. TIP: Here is my Networking Advice ).