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

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Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

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

Both Sides of the Table

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Enter Facebook. Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t. I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es

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

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Take note of what Paul Graham said in 2004: [link] — he is talking along similar lines. Plus the tools used by startups to grow quickly (EC2 for example) are much cheaper for linux than for Windows. March 27, 2011 at 8:06 pm. After taking the time to read over these comments today, I have a couple things to add to the melee: 1.

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