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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). In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Posted by: Serkan | September 10, 2007 4:44 AM Thanks Serkan - the next post will be up soon. Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 4:46 AM Good read but. Posted by: Darren Stuart | September 10, 2007 4:53 AM What an excellent article! Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 6:28 AM Excellent post! Cant wait for more ;).

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

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Click Allow Click Install Now After downloading, Restart Firefox 5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups by Alex on December 18, 2007 · 13 comments Even 5 years ago an approach to infrastructure in a startup would have been different. EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. Startups!!!

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

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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). In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. Enter Facebook.

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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. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics. During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there.

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