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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Only guarantee for longevity is if you have options.

Platform 150
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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. Enter the decentralized Internet.

Course 280