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

Both Sides of the Table

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. Github – Source code control, code change discussion (+mobile).

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) Social media related skills are also big, i.e. Build a software-as-a-service web site, even just a dead simple one, using the latest technology. For bonus points, make sure the back end uses Amazon EC2 and S3. Build a Facebook application or other social networking app.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Pinterest – a case study in capital efficiency

The Equity Kicker

As most of you will know, the enablers are cloud computing and open source software. Pinterest now supports 18m users with growth running at 50% per month with the following: Amazon costs are around $39k for S3 and $30k for EC2 (I assume per month). They have 275 EC2 instances. 70 master databases.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. Posted by: Peter Cooper | September 10, 2007 7:23 AM It wouldve been nice to hear a mention, or at least suggestion, of the role open source software plays in the development process - even if to say it shouldnt be used. social network for sports fans!

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

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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