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

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The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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

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The Past (1985-2002). Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. It was mostly timing.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious. Sjoerd Franken.

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

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At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Imagine that you can develop software on your local computer but the entire service is delivered virtually through a partner in the same way people consumer energy with all of the scale benefits that go with that. Think about it.

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