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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

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Gil Elbaz: What we have been working on, and what we offer now, is a platform where anyone can share and mash open data. That data can be on any subject--we're a horizontal platform--and a few of the examples you see on our site are a list of restaurants, things in the health space, and other partnerships. Is this similar?

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. Cloud Data Platform. And then came the debate about storage. I was dead set against it. Business Logic.

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

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encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Yet the number of businesses looking to build on the Facebook platform seems to have increased. They looked unstoppable.