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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. Must be willing to work the way Google expects.

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

Both Sides of the Table

[asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo!