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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. PIM based on Java that would be up-to-date on all your devices.

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

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. We will seeing the growth of social networks around topics of interest like StockTwits for people interested in investing in the stock market. cheap accessible digital hardware].

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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]. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 It was mostly timing.