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

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Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

As I earlier suggested, part of the problem is due to the organization of Washington, DC, right down to fiscal years and annual budgets. This is a great three-year plan that provides funds to allow schools to purchase research tools, interact with NASA (including a trip to Houston), and provide advanced training for teachers.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites: Meebo. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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

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That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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