Remove Design Remove EC2 Remove S3 Remove Yahoo
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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

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

Both Sides of the Table

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing.