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Favor Plans Expansion Into San Diego, Gets $13M

socalTECH

Favor--which is based in Austin, Texas--said it raised $13M in a Series A funding, from S3 Ventures, Silverton Partners, Tim Draper, and other angels, specifically for the expansion move. The company currently operates in Austin, Boston, Houston and Dallas. San Diego will be the company''s first foray into California.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. NEA No one owns it Everyone can use it Anyone can improve it Introduces (adds to Levels above) idea of Level 4 Platform In his mind, the key ingredient is that the there needs to be multiple platform service providers. 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

While Facebook was built on the idea that all our information was private and shared only between friend (before they changed this after the fact), Twitter was born under the idea that most of the information shared there was open and viewable by anybody. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

A colleague working at the National Science Foundation said to me, "The lag time between fundamental idea and marketable product is usually longer than policymakers are willing to consider." As I earlier suggested, part of the problem is due to the organization of Washington, DC, right down to fiscal years and annual budgets.

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

Both Sides of the Table

While Facebook was built on the idea that all our information was private and shared only between friend (before they changed this after the fact), Twitter was born under the idea that most of the information shared there was open and viewable by anybody. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).