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

Both Sides of the Table

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. 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 ). MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Went on to present at TechCrunch 50. Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. We'll see where my opinion goes after hearing the presentations. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. Compared cost there vs. second company that raised $500K and used S3 and other platforms.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

Tech Zulu Event

TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Prior to joining DWA Chris worked at Activision Blizzard for 13 years, during which time he held a number of role including Executive Producer and Lead Game Designer. Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica.

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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 ). Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. The Present Era. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).