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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Will it survive as long as you need?

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

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Apple event rumor round-up: iPad Mini, iPad 3.5, Investors are no longer compelled to stick to their own backyard, and Southern California is changing the startup landscape, consistently ranking in the top three along with Silicon Valley and the Boston area. Newsletters.

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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]. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0