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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. From BBM's web site: media RSS - extensions to RSS subscription format to support time based media, enclosures, copyrights and other meta-data needed for media. In second venture - compared Salesforce.com vs. S3 - as platform.

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

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? cheap accessible digital hardware].

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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]. So this combination of following people you found interesting who share links drove a sort of “news exchange&# that mimicked many of the features of RSS readers except that it was curated by other people! At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).