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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. MYTH 3: SoCal lacks Fortune 500 Tech Leadership.

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

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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). At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. Well, here’s a quick history primer that may change your mind: 1.

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

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GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! But Friendster’s computer systems couldn’t keep up with the explosive growth (reportedly due to the complexity of the security model set up to control connections, privacy and authenticity of users) so MySpace was hot on the heels and swept up the market in a very rapid ascent.