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

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While Facebook was built on the idea that all our information was private and shared only between friend (before they changed this after the fact), Twitter was born under the idea that most of the information shared there was open and viewable by anybody. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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

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GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: then bought GeoCities for $3.6