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

Both Sides of the Table

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers

SoCal CTO

In Web Framework Benchmarks , there are some very interesting and surprising numbers around the performance of various web frameworks. I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. Startup Founders really need to see these numbers.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 And so it goes with social networking.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Social media. Social networking. Social games. Web Design Software. Web Hosting Software. Streaming media. Streaming video. Smartphones. Windows Phone. Google Plus. Interviews. Guest Post. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. Monitoring Software. Office Suites. More Software.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5

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