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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. A couple of the more interesting ones: Amazon EC2 Google App Engine Salesforce.com Force IBM’s Blue Cloud All about end-user requests.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Streaming media. Social media. It covers a range of technology trends, from social media to mobile, clean technology, games and chips. Star Trek Contest. Primary Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newsletters. Live at the Apple Event: iPad Mini (and more?). 11 hrs ago. Electric cars. Hybrid cars.

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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]. So this combination of following people you found interesting who share links drove a sort of “news exchange&# that mimicked many of the features of RSS readers except that it was curated by other people! At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).