Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
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?
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
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. Your mileage may vary. Real-time Communication (internal and external). Backend Support.
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
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? And so it goes with social networking.
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
AUGUST 27, 2011
A notable site is FaceSmash which sold for $30k the week the movie Social Network came out. Even Perez Hilton blogged about Flippa because of its relationship to FaceSmash and Social Network. This is interesting because I personally wonder why Amazon keeps Mechanical Turk and EC2 under the Amazon brand.
blog.socaltech.com
NOVEMBER 5, 2010
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.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 28, 2013
I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. However, startup founders who are building applications that have: Large Audiences - consumer facing Complex Processing - examples: Matching , Social Network Analysis, Compatibility Scoring, etc.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 22, 2012
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. Traffic costs them $52 an hour during peak times, down to $15 during the night. They have 31 employees, up from 12 in December.
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