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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. Tiny variations in response payload can appear as significant variations in requests per second in the new pipelining plaintext test. We are hiring.

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

Both Sides of the Table

In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. But what is magic about Twitter is that it is real time.

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

Both Sides of the Table

But Friendster’s computer systems couldn’t keep up with the explosive growth (reportedly due to the complexity of the security model set up to control connections, privacy and authenticity of users) so MySpace was hot on the heels and swept up the market in a very rapid ascent. Twitter is much more. Is the game over?

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. MYTH 3: SoCal lacks Fortune 500 Tech Leadership. Whats Hot Menu. Skip to primary content. what’s hot?