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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise.

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

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encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. Why did Twitter emerge despite Facebook’s dominance?

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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]. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets?